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Kückelhauser Kluterthöhle

The Kückelhäuser Kluterthöhle is a long-known cave that at one point fell into oblivion, with a passage length of 402 m and an elevation difference of 39 m.

Hagen

The Kückelhäuser Kluterthöhle is a long-known cave that at one point fell into oblivion, with a passage length of 402 m and an elevation difference of 39 m.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Hagen
  • 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 entrance is located on a sports field.

Map

Approximate position

Entrances

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  1. Kückelhauser Kluterthöhle

    51.345861, 7.443365
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Description

Morphology

The cave's entrance elevation is 189 m above sea level, the passage length is 402 m and the elevation difference is 39 m.

Other details

The Kückelhäuser Kluterthöhle lies in rocks of the Upper Honsel Beds of the Middle Devonian. It is locked and is looked after by the Arbeitskreis Kluterthöhle e.V. (AKK for short). Since 1994 it has been protected as a natural monument.

History

The Kückelhäuser Kluterthöhle has been known for a long time but at one point fell into oblivion. In the year 2000 the cave was re-opened and made accessible by the AKK-Kluterthöhle.

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Source: Geotopkataster Nordrhein-Westfalen (Geologischer Dienst NRW) (ogc-api.nrw.de), modified. Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 Geowissenschaftliche Daten: INSP-GeotopeinNRW @ Geologischer Dienst NRW · data as of 2026