Hohler Stein

The Hohle Stein in the Kallenhardt district of the municipality of Rüthen is a large cultural cave with archaeological finds from the Final Palaeolithic to the pre-Roman Iron Age.

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Hohler Stein

The Hohle Stein in the Kallenhardt district of the municipality of Rüthen is a large cultural cave with archaeological finds from the Final Palaeolithic to the pre-Roman Iron Age.

Rüthen

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The Hohle Stein in the Kallenhardt district of the municipality of Rüthen is a large cultural cave with archaeological finds from the Final Palaeolithic to the pre-Roman Iron Age.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Rüthen
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 Hohle Stein is located in the Kallenhardt district of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality of Rüthen, in the Lörmecketal nature reserve and FFH area. Also located in this area – only a few hundred metres away – is the rock formation Hoher Stein.

Entrances

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Hohler Stein
51.436318, 8.402689
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The Hohle Stein is a large cultural cave.

History

The Hohle Stein has yielded archaeological finds from the Final Palaeolithic to the pre-Roman Iron Age.

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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/23704 · 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 (Hohler Stein (Kallenhardt)) · 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/Hohler_Stein_(Kallenhardt) · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]