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Wichtelhoehlen Uttershausen

Legendary geotope on the steep bank of the Schwalm: passages lead up to 30 meters into the Muschelkalk and, apart from two collapsed side passages, are easy to walk through.

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Legendary geotope on the steep bank of the Schwalm: passages lead up to 30 meters into the Muschelkalk and, apart from two collapsed side passages, are easy to walk through.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Wabern
  • 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 Wichtellöcher am Dosenberg, also called Wichtelhöhlen, lie on the southern slope of the Dosenberg in the Uttershausen district of Wabern, on the steep bank of the Schwalm in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis (North Hesse).

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Entrances

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  1. Wichtelhoehlen Uttershausen

    51.071599, 9.327211
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Description

Morphology

The passages of the Wichtellöcher lead up to 30 meters into the Muschelkalk and, with the exception of two collapsed side passages, are easy to walk through.

Other details

The Wichtellöcher am Dosenberg, also called Wichtelhöhlen, are a legendary geotope.

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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/1399181575 · 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) · names · obtained 2026-11-13 · 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 (Wichtellöcher (Uttershausen)) · 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/Wichtell%C3%B6cher_(Uttershausen) · data as of 2026 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]