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Kniegrotte

The Wüste Scheuer, Kniegrotte and Urdhöhle caves are located in the Gamsental south of Döbritz in the Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia.

Döbritz

The Wüste Scheuer, Kniegrotte and Urdhöhle caves are located in the Gamsental south of Döbritz in the Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Döbritz
  • 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 Döbritz caves Wüste Scheuer, Kniegrotte and Urdhöhle are located in the Gamsental, south of the built-up area of Döbritz, in the Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia.

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Entrances

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  1. Kniegrotte

    50.689879, 11.640867
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Description

Other details

The Zechstein massif known as the Döbritzer Schweiz features a series of rock fissures and the three aforementioned caves.

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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. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1826166965 · 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 (Döbritzer Höhlen) · 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/D%C3%B6britzer_H%C3%B6hlen · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]