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Höhle im Kattenstein

The Höhle im Kattenstein is an ice-cellar-type cave over 200 m long in Middle Devonian massive limestone, whose entrance lies on fenced ground and is barred.

Rüthen

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Höhle im Kattenstein

The Höhle im Kattenstein is an ice-cellar-type cave over 200 m long in Middle Devonian massive limestone, whose entrance lies on fenced ground and is barred.

Rüthen

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The Höhle im Kattenstein is an ice-cellar-type cave over 200 m long in Middle Devonian massive limestone, whose entrance lies on fenced ground and is barred.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Rüthen
  • 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.

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  1. Höhle im Kattenstein

    51.452571, 8.429964
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Description

Morphology

The Höhle im Kattenstein has a total length of over 200 m. It is a so-called ice-cellar-type cave and lies in Middle Devonian massive limestone.

Other details

The cave entrance is located on fenced ground and is barred. The cave has been under nature protection since 2004 and has belonged to the BUND NRW Naturschutzstiftung since 2008.

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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 · 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/6649728094 · data as of 2026 · Location data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6649728094 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]