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Höhle am Hoeling

A cave about 15 m wide, 20 m deep and 10 -15 m high (hohe Höhle) is cut into the wall of an abandoned quarry at the southwest foot of the Hoeling mountain.

Marsberg

A cave about 15 m wide, 20 m deep and 10 -15 m high (hohe Höhle) is cut into the wall of an abandoned quarry at the southwest foot of the Hoeling mountain.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Marsberg
  • Record updated:

Caves are protected biotopes (§30 BNatSchG). Caves used by bats as winter quarters must not be entered from 1 October to 31 March (§39(6) BNatSchG), except show caves and their developed parts.

Location

The cave is located in the abandoned quarry at the southwest foot of the Hoeling mountain. The exposure lies in the "NSG Hasental-Kregenberg".

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  1. Höhle am Hoeling

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Description

Morphology

A large cave is cut into the approximately 200 m long, 25 m high quarry wall (dimensions about 15 m wide, 20 m deep, 10 -15 m high). On the floor of the cave lies a roughly 1.5 -2 m high mound of collapse material (ceiling collapse). The quarry is heavily overgrown in the eastern part, and overall slightly littered.

Other details

In the quarry and in the cave, bedded Zechstein limestones (Straßfurt sequence or z2) are exposed. The cave was fenced off (steel mats and barbed wire); the barrier has meanwhile been cut through several times. Fire pits and old sleeping bags bear witness to occasional overnight visitors. There are also several fire pits in the western part of the quarry.

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Source: Geotopkataster Nordrhein-Westfalen (Geologischer Dienst NRW) (ogc-api.nrw.de), modified. Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 Geowissenschaftliche Daten: INSP-GeotopeinNRW @ Geologischer Dienst NRW · data as of 2026