Schlangenhöhle
The Schlangenhöhle near Einöd (Homburg) is a sandstone cave formed by underground silver sand extraction that served as a show cave in the 1950s and has been permanently sealed since the 1990s.
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Schlangenhöhle
The Schlangenhöhle near Einöd (Homburg) is a sandstone cave formed by underground silver sand extraction that served as a show cave in the 1950s and has been permanently sealed since the 1990s.
Homburg
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The Schlangenhöhle near Einöd (Homburg) is a sandstone cave formed by underground silver sand extraction that served as a show cave in the 1950s and has been permanently sealed since the 1990s.
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Description
Morphology
The Schlangenhöhle near Einöd (Homburg) is a sandstone cave formed by underground silver sand extraction.
Other details
In the 1950s the Schlangenhöhle served as a show cave and tourist attraction. Since the 1990s the cave has been permanently sealed.
Bio
The sealed Schlangenhöhle serves, among others, foxes, badgers and bats as a refuge.
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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. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3592616531 · 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 (Schlangenhöhle (Einöd)) · 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/Schlangenh%C3%B6hle_(Ein%C3%B6d) · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]