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Zwergenhöhle

The Zwergenhoehle consists of a cave chamber about 4m deep and at most 1.5m high.

Lindlar 7m

The Zwergenhoehle consists of a cave chamber about 4m deep and at most 1.5m high.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Lindlar
  • Length: 7 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.

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  1. Zwergenhöhle

    51.055325, 7.442319
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Description

Morphology

The Zwergenhoehle consists of a cave chamber about 4m deep and at most 1.5m high.

Other details

Next to the Zwergenhoehle, dark grey to black, dense, splintery-fracturing limestones of the Hobraeck beds are exposed. Fossils present include brachiopods, bryozoans and corals, though in poor preservation.

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Source: Geotopkataster Nordrhein-Westfalen (Geologischer Dienst NRW) (ogc-api.nrw.de), modified. Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0), https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 Geowissenschaftliche Daten: INSP-GeotopeinNRW @ Geologischer Dienst NRW · 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. · length · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/23629 · 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 · Location data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/. · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/366351796 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]