Nikolaushöhle

The Nikolaushöhle is a karst cave with Stone Age finds in the municipality of Veringenstadt in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg.

Veringenstadt

The Nikolaushöhle is a karst cave with Stone Age finds in the municipality of Veringenstadt in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg.

Characteristics

• Type: Cave
• Municipality: Veringenstadt
• 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 Nikolaushöhle is located in the municipality of Veringenstadt in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Lauchert valley in the area of Veringenstadt is – alongside the Bad Urach area and the valleys of the Ach, Blau and Lone – one of the most important cave areas on the Swabian Alb.

Map

Entrances

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1. Nikolaushöhle

   48.176541, 9.211836
   UTM 32U (ETRS89) 515748 5335944
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Description

Morphology

The Nikolaushöhle is a karst cave.

Other details

The Lauchert valley in the area of Veringenstadt is regarded as one of the most important cave areas on the Swabian Alb, both for the number of caves and for their significance for prehistoric research as well as for the study of Earth history.

History

Stone Age finds were made in the Nikolaushöhle.

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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 · 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 (Nikolaushöhle) · 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/Nikolaush%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026