Honert-Höhle
The Honert-Höhle was a fissure cave consisting of two or three chambers in the mass limestone of the upper Middle Devonian, which fell victim to limestone quarrying.
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Honert-Höhle
The Honert-Höhle was a fissure cave consisting of two or three chambers in the mass limestone of the upper Middle Devonian, which fell victim to limestone quarrying.
Balve
Length: 50 m · Depth: 16 m
Updated record
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The Honert-Höhle was a fissure cave consisting of two or three chambers in the mass limestone of the upper Middle Devonian, which fell victim to limestone quarrying.
Description
Morphology
The cave was located in the mass limestone of the upper Middle Devonian. It consisted of two or three chambers. Two were connected to each other by a 28-meter-long passage. At the end of the cave was a large hall that had a length of 9 meters and a width of 5 meters. The lowest point of the fissure cave lay 16 meters below cave entrance level.
Other details
The cave fell victim to the limestone quarrying of the quarry. It was also a find site of pottery of the older Iron Age.
History
Excavations were carried out by Emil Carthaus in the year 1891. He found pieces of a human skull, potsherds and fossil bones.
Excavations in the Hönnetal were undertaken by the geologist Julius Andree, Münster, in the years 1925 and 1926. In four excavations in the Honert-Höhle, Andree found in the rear part of the cave, among other things, remains of a Stone Age burial, pottery sherds of the Iron Age, four three-pfennig coins of the city of Hamm (minted 1736 and 1737) and a three-pfennig coin of the city of Soest (1740) of copper.
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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/23705 · 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 (Honert-Höhle) · 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/Honert-H%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]