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Caves in Germany
Germany has 82 caves on Detourmap — caves, caverns, grottoes and the karst underground. The best known is Hohle Fels. All of them are below.
- Caves
- 82
- Of nature
- 82 of 913
- Little known
- 67 of 82
- Oldest
- Prinzenhöhle 1455
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12.Kleine Feldhofer Grotte
Nature · Notable
Former cave and archaeological site in Neandertal, Germany
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27.Iberg Dripstone Cave
Nature · Hidden gem
Public cave and geology museum in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany
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28.Großes Heiliges Meer
Nature · Hidden gem
Lake in Steinfurt district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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43.Felsengarten Sanspareil
Nature · 18th century · Hidden gem
Cultural heritage monument D-4-77-164-22 (0) in Wonsees, Bavaria
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53.Adventhöhle Breitscheid
Nature · Hidden gem
Large-scale natural monument of a karst cave in the Erdbacher Massenkalk near Breitscheid in the Lahn-Dill district, Hesse, Germany
Questions about this page
How many caves are there in Germany?
82 on this map, out of 913 nature & landscapes in Germany. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.
What is the best known cave in Germany?
Hohle Fels. Cave in Germany.
Which caves in Germany are the least visited?
67 of the 82 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.
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