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Räuberhöhle

Presumably a cave ruin, today a 2-3 m wide and roughly 4 m deep gorge whose former extent and course can no longer be determined.

Horn-Bad Meinberg

Presumably a cave ruin, today a 2-3 m wide and roughly 4 m deep gorge whose former extent and course can no longer be determined.

Characteristics

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.

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  1. Räuberhöhle

    51.858774, 8.890456
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Description

Morphology

The Räuberhöhle is presumably a cave ruin that today exists as a 2-3 m wide and roughly 4 m deep gorge. At one point, remnants of cave ceilings are still visible on the right and left in the gorge wall. The extent and course of the former cave can no longer be determined. At another point in the gorge wall, where the gorge width exceeds 4 m, there is a narrow opening that ends in a tight fissure. Further narrow fissures run more than 10 m into the mountain.

Other details

The strata dip at approximately 247/11 degrees toward the southwest. A main fissure direction is 250/86 degrees. The origin is considered to be a former fissure cave that formed through collapse. The structures at the Mordkopf appear geologically young. The cave ruin lies in limestones of the Oerlinghausen Formation (Middle Turonian, formerly lamarcki beds). The object is cut by a timber hauling road, which may have destroyed some interesting structure.

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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