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Höhle Süntecker Luak

The Süntecker Luak is a 30-meter-long natural cave with two entrance portals and two small chambers inside.

Hemer

The Süntecker Luak is a 30-meter-long natural cave with two entrance portals and two small chambers inside.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Hemer
  • 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 Süntecker Luak is a natural cave in Sundwig, a district of Hemer in the Sauerland. It is located at 248 m above sea level in the Middle Devonian mass limestone of the Perick cave system and lies in a rock formation with a small limestone beech forest growth.

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Approximate position

Entrances

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  1. Höhle Süntecker Luak

    51.378136, 7.779000
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Description

Morphology

The cave has a length of 30 meters and two entrance portals. Deeper inside the mountain there are two small chambers.

Other details

The Süntecker Luak is protected as an areal natural monument. It is entered in the geotope register of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with a digitized area of 700 m² under the number GK-4612-011. The cave has not been accessible to the public since 1998.

Bio

During regularly conducted surveys of bats in 17 winter quarters in the Märkischer Kreis, which took place from winter 1987/88 to winter 2011/12, the Natterer's bat was recorded in the Süntecker Luak from 1991 with interruptions, the brown long-eared bat from 2002/03 and the common pipistrelle from 2006.

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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/3799821881 · 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) · names · obtained 2026-11-13 · 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 (Süntecker Luak) · 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/S%C3%BCntecker_Luak · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]