Maurushöhle
The Rote-Brunnen-Höhle is a Höhlensystem (cave system) consisting of three passages with an explored length of 376 metres, whose longest passage is walled up after ten metres to protect the bats.
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Maurushöhle
The Rote-Brunnen-Höhle is a Höhlensystem (cave system) consisting of three passages with an explored length of 376 metres, whose longest passage is walled up after ten metres to protect the bats.
Leibertingen
Depth: 376 m
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The Rote-Brunnen-Höhle is a Höhlensystem (cave system) consisting of three passages with an explored length of 376 metres, whose longest passage is walled up after ten metres to protect the bats.
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Description
Morphology
The Höhlensystem (cave system) consists of three passages. The longest passage is walled up after ten metres to protect the bats and thereafter has only a passage for the bats. The cave has an explored length of 376 metres.
Speleothems
The middle of the passages ends in a dripstone cave.
Hydrology
The cave's namesake is the Rote Brunnen, a spring that rises from the hillside scree below the cave about two metres above the water level of the Danube. The spring has a mean discharge of 50 litres per second (minimum 25, maximum 675 l/s). At high discharge, water also emerges from the cave.
Other details
The cave is protected as a natural monument and designated as a geotope. In winter it may not be entered to protect the bats.
History
Finds indicate early use by Stone Age hunters. In the 1960s it was planned to use the spring for water supply. The plans were abandoned after marking experiments established that water sinking in the Wildensteiner Tal east of the castle flows very rapidly to the Rote Brunnen.
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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 © OpenStreetMap contributors, www.openstreetmap.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · depth, names · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/294924180 · 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) · 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 (Rote-Brunnen-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/Rote-Brunnen-H%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]