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Wassersteinhöhle

Wassersteinhöhle

The Wassersteinhöhle is a cave about 31 meters long that can only be visited by crawling, with a nearly rounded, artificially altered entrance 3.2 m wide and 3.5 m high.

Bad Urach 31m 9m

The Wassersteinhöhle is a cave about 31 meters long that can only be visited by crawling, with a nearly rounded, artificially altered entrance 3.2 m wide and 3.5 m high.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Bad Urach
  • Length: 31 meters
  • Depth: 9 meters
  • Record updated:

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 Wassersteinhöhle is located about 3 km southwest of Bad Urach on the Hochbergsteig hiking trail.

Map

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Wassersteinhöhle

    48.481355, 9.426691
    UTM 32U (ETRS89) 531532 5369891
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

It has a nearly rounded, artificially altered entrance 3.2 m wide and 3.5 m high and is about 31 meters long.

Progression

The cave can only be visited by crawling.

Other details

The cave is protected as a geotope.

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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 · 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. · depth, length · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/77396 · 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 (Wassersteinhöhle) · 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/Wassersteinh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]