Wolfertschwendener Steige

A 30-metre-long geotope exposure created by gravel extraction, with conglomerated gravels and geological organ pipes.

Wolfertschwenden 30m

A 30-metre-long geotope exposure created by gravel extraction, with conglomerated gravels and geological organ pipes.

Characteristics

• Type: Cave
• Municipality: Wolfertschwenden
• Length: 30 meters
• Record updated: November 13, 2026

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 Wolfertschwendener Steige is located in the Unterallgäu district (Bavaria) within the municipality of Wolfertschwenden, east of the village. The exposure lies in the upper part of a west-facing slope at an elevation of 770 m above sea level on the district road MN 18 from Wolfertschwenden to Böhen, and is situated at the transition between the natural regions of the Lower Iller Valley and the Iller-Lech gravel plates, in the geological spatial unit of the Iller-Lech region.

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1. Wolfertschwendener Steige

   Elevation: 770 m

   47.890900, 10.279281
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Description

Morphology

The exposure extends over a length of 30 metres, a width of 10 metres and a height of 8 metres, covering an area of 300 square metres. On the quarry walls it shows conglomerated gravels and partly weakly developed geological organ pipes. The gravel of the geotope contains almost exclusively limestone and dolomite pebbles, which are poorly rounded. The cover gravel dates from the Early Pleistocene.

Other details

The Wolfertschwendener Steige is a registered geotope with the number 778A002. The exposure was created by gravel extraction. The unprotected geotope, which was affected by remediation work on the district road in the early 2010s, is classified as geoscientifically significant and is only rarely present in the region.

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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 (Wolfertschwendener Steige) · 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/Wolfertschwendener_Steige · data as of 2026