Höhle Kätherenküche
The Käthra Kuche is a half-cave (abri) east of Briel on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb.
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Höhle Kätherenküche
The Käthra Kuche is a half-cave (abri) east of Briel on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb.
Ehingen (Donau)
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The Käthra Kuche is a half-cave (abri) east of Briel on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb.
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Description
Morphology
The Käthra Kuche (also Kätheren Küche, the „Küche der Katharina“) is a half-cave (abri). The rock and the cave are protected under the name Fels mit Höhle „Kätheren Küche“ as natural monument no. 84250330172.
History
The cave is said to have served a Katharina Schunter as a Wohnhöhle (dwelling cave) around 1800. She came from the Schunter family, which inhabited the nearby Schunterhöhle. During her stay in the cave she is said to have made fires for cooking. The rising smoke led the inhabitants of the nearby village of Briel to exclaim „D’ Käther kocht“ – Katharina is cooking. Hence the naming Kätheren Küche (= Käthra Kuche).
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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/1788403407 · 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 (Käthra Kuche) · 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/K%C3%A4thra_Kuche · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]