Karls- und Bärenhöhle
The Karls- und Bärenhöhle is a dripstone cave with over 250 m of walkable path, consisting of the Karlshöhle, discovered in 1834, and its continuation, the Bärenhöhle, discovered in 1949.
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Karls- und Bärenhöhle
The Karls- und Bärenhöhle is a dripstone cave with over 250 m of walkable path, consisting of the Karlshöhle, discovered in 1834, and its continuation, the Bärenhöhle, discovered in 1949.
Sonnenbühl
Length: 292 m
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The Karls- und Bärenhöhle is a dripstone cave with over 250 m of walkable path, consisting of the Karlshöhle, discovered in 1834, and its continuation, the Bärenhöhle, discovered in 1949.
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Description
Morphology
The Karls- und Bärenhöhle is walkable for over 250 m. It is made up of the Karlshöhle, discovered in 1834, and its continuation, the Bärenhöhle, discovered in 1949. Colloquially, however, the term Bärenhöhle is used for the entire cave.
Speleothems
The Karls- und Bärenhöhle is a dripstone cave and impresses with its beautiful dripstone and ceiling formations.
Other details
With around 80,000 visitors annually, it is the most visited show cave of the Swabian Alb and one of the most visited caves in Germany. The temperature is 8–10 °C all year round. Since 1974, the Traumland auf der Bärenhöhle leisure park has been located above the Bärenhöhle.
History
It owes its name to the numerous skeletons of cave bears found in it. Several skulls and bones as well as a restored bear skeleton can be viewed in the cave. The cave also impresses with its broad find horizon, which extends from the Pleistocene over 1.5 million years ago to the early modern period in the 17th century.
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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 Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · length, names · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/5843 · 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/277793489 · 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 (Karls- und Bärenhöhle) · 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/Karls-_und_B%C3%A4renh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]