Höhle Bauerloch

The Bauerloch is a karst cave on the northern escarpment of the Swabian Alb.

Neuffen

The Bauerloch is a karst cave on the northern escarpment of the Swabian Alb.

Characteristics

• Type: Cave
• Municipality: Neuffen
• Record updated: November 13, 2026

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 entrance lies in the uppermost part of the Bauernlochschlucht near Neuffen in the district of Esslingen at about 590 m above sea level.

Map

Entrances

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1. Höhle Bauerloch

   48.549970, 9.401942
   UTM 32U (ETRS89) 529663 5377508
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Description

Hydrology

During heavy rain and at snowmelt, the Dürrenbach springs from the entrance of the Bauerloch, and large parts of the cave are then completely under water. In dry periods the stream emerges only at about 520 m above sea level in the lower part of the Tales.

Progression

For this reason, entering the cave is dangerous.

Other details

The Bauerloch is protected as a geotope under the number 13634/934 and, under the name Bauerlochhöhle und Magerrasen im Gewann Bauerlochberg with the protected area number 811-60462912, also as a natural monument.

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Source: Geotopkataster Baden-Württemberg (Regierungspräsidium Freiburg – LGRB) (services.lgrb-bw.de), modified. Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 Datenquelle: Regierungspräsidium Freiburg - LGRB, www.lgrb-bw.de · data as of 2026 · Contains information from © OpenStreetMap contributors, www.openstreetmap.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · names · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/759770645 · data as of 2026 · Source: Wikidata – cave items (Germany) (www.wikidata.org), modified. CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · data as of 2026 · Source: German Wikipedia – article leads (cave descriptions) (de.wikipedia.org), modified. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Wikipedia contributors (de.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Text by Wikipedia contributors (Bauerloch) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ · description · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauerloch · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]