Salzgrabenhöhle
The Salzgrabenhöhle is a natural karst cave in the Steinernes Meer with an entrance about 8 m high and 20 m wide at 960 m above sea level.
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Salzgrabenhöhle
The Salzgrabenhöhle is a natural karst cave in the Steinernes Meer with an entrance about 8 m high and 20 m wide at 960 m above sea level.
Schönau a.Königssee
Length: 9012 m
Updated record
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The Salzgrabenhöhle is a natural karst cave in the Steinernes Meer with an entrance about 8 m high and 20 m wide at 960 m above sea level.
Description
Morphology
The Salzgrabenhöhle is a natural karst cave and is also called Salzofen. It is considered one of the largest known cave systems in Germany. The cave entrance, about 8 m high and 20 m wide, is located on the slopes of the Simetsberg facing the Königssee, which here is formed of Dachstein limestone.
Other details
The Salzgrabenhöhle is registered as geotope number 172H005.
History
The cave was discovered in 1959 by the speleologists Erhard Sommer from Berchtesgaden, who earned great merit for its development, and Kajo Wohlgeschaffen.
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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 (Salzgrabenhöhle) · 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/Salzgrabenh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026