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Caves and potholes of Baden-Württemberg

The catalogue of Baden-Württemberg lists 593 caves, including 40 potholes and 548 caves. The longest is Vetterhöhle (18,754 m) and the deepest is Maurushöhle (376 m).

593 caves
72.1 km total length
376m max depth

Length adds each cave once (a system counts once), and depth is that of the deepest cave, canyons excluded. Without length data: 535. Without depth data: 560. Without known lithology: 593.

The 20 longest

Full ranking: longest caves in Baden-Württemberg

The 20 deepest

Full ranking: deepest caves and potholes in Baden-Württemberg

Map

Districts

Landkreis Reutlingen

104 caves
7.2 km
40m
🏆 Longest: Falkensteiner Höhle (3,987m)
⬇️ Deepest: Nebelhöhle (40m)

Alb-Donau-Kreis

70 caves
29.3 km
148m
🏆 Longest: Vetterhöhle (18,754m)
⬇️ Deepest: Hessenhaudoline (148m)

Landkreis Esslingen

65 caves
520 m
43m
🏆 Longest: Gutenberger Höhle (180m)
⬇️ Deepest: Roßgallenschacht (43m)

Landkreis Sigmaringen

59 caves
546 m
376m
🏆 Longest: Amandahöhle (275m)
⬇️ Deepest: Maurushöhle (376m)

Zollernalbkreis

45 caves
47 m
16m
🏆 Longest: Kobelhöhle (35m)
⬇️ Deepest: Kobelhöhle (16m)

Ostalbkreis

35 caves
6 m
90m
🏆 Longest: Götzenloch (6m)
⬇️ Deepest: Falkenhöhle (90m)

Landkreis Heidenheim

34 caves
693 m
12m
🏆 Longest: Charlottenhöhle (587m)
⬇️ Deepest: Charlottenhöhle (12m)

Landkreis Göppingen

28 caves
5.0 km
70m
🏆 Longest: Mordloch (4,320m)
⬇️ Deepest: Todsburger Schacht (70m)

Landkreis Lörrach

8 caves
2.3 km
75m
🏆 Longest: Erdmannshöhle (2,146m)
⬇️ Deepest: Teufelsloch Rheinfelden (75m)

Enzkreis

4 caves
200 m
25m
🏆 Longest: Rainloch (200m)
⬇️ Deepest: Rainloch (25m)

Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis

4 caves
3.8 km
39m
🏆 Longest: Hohler Stein (3,000m)
⬇️ Deepest: Eberstadter Tropfsteinhöhle (39m)

Landkreis Schwäbisch Hall

3 caves
15.4 km
20m
🏆 Longest: Fuchslabyrinth (15,412m)
⬇️ Deepest: Fuchslabyrinth (20m)

The figures of these places do not add up to the total: a cave can be in more than one place, or in none when its location has no lower level.

Administrative units: © BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0 (data sources). Boundaries simplified and reprojected by EspeleoWorld.

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. · 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. · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]