Jungfernhöhle

The Jungfernhöhle is a natural karst cave near Tiefenellern in the Upper Franconian municipality of Litzendorf in the district of Bamberg in Bavaria, open to the west.

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Jungfernhöhle

The Jungfernhöhle is a natural karst cave near Tiefenellern in the Upper Franconian municipality of Litzendorf in the district of Bamberg in Bavaria, open to the west.

Litzendorf

Length: 10 m

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The Jungfernhöhle is a natural karst cave near Tiefenellern in the Upper Franconian municipality of Litzendorf in the district of Bamberg in Bavaria, open to the west.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Litzendorf
Length: 10 meters
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 Jungfernhöhle is located near Tiefenellern, a part of the Upper Franconian municipality of Litzendorf in the district of Bamberg in Bavaria, in the Hofbauernholz between the villages of Tiefenellern, Herzogenreuth and Laibarös, not far from the western escarpment of the northern Franconian Alb.

Entrances

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Jungfernhöhle
49.920095, 11.087252
UTM 32U (ETRS89) 649829.427000235 5531835.1459992835
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Description

Morphology

The Jungfernhöhle is a natural karst cave. It is open to the west.

Other details

The Jungfernhöhle is registered in the Franconian Alb cave register (HFA) as C 238 and by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as geotope 471H001. See also the list of geotopes in the district of Bamberg.

History

The cave was, among other things, a Neolithic cult site of the Linear Pottery culture.

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Source: Geotopkataster Bayern (Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt) (www.umweltatlas.bayern.de), modified. CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Datenquelle: Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt, www.lfu.bayern.de · https://www.umweltatlas.bayern.de/mapapps/resources/reports/sb_geotope/generateBericht.pdf?additionallayerfieldvalue=471H001 · 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) · length, 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 (Jungfernhöhle) · 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/Jungfernh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026