Riesending-Schachthöhle
The Riesending cave, located in the Untersberg near Berchtesgaden, was discovered in 1996.
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Riesending-Schachthöhle
The Riesending cave, located in the Untersberg near Berchtesgaden, was discovered in 1996.
Bischofswiesen
Length: 27300 m · Depth: 1149 m
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The Riesending cave, located in the Untersberg near Berchtesgaden, was discovered in 1996.
History
Riesending was discovered in 1996 by Hermann Sommer and Ulrich Meyer.
In June 2014, a rescue operation required eleven days of work for 700 members of a multinational group of rescuers to save Johann Westhauser, then 52 years old, one of the cave's explorers, a physicist, speleologist and cave rescuer himself, who had been injured in a rockfall deep inside the cave.
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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/120988 · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by BTH, BTH (Situation) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/120988 · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]