The Top 20 Caves in the Vulkaneifel
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Last updated: September 23, 2025
Over a small staircase to reach the then quite large cave. You can get in a good deal and you are immediately fascinated. In any case worth a flashlight, of course, it is also without
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Height: 643 m above sea level. NHN
The millstone cave consists of lava boards and is an artificial cave in the Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate. It was created by the production of …
The millstone cave consists of lava boards and is an artificial cave in the Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate. It was created by the production of …
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It is unbelievable under what conditions people mined millstones here in the Middle Ages. The porous volcanic rock is popular because it does not become smooth when it is ground, but remains sharp-edged.
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The ice caves were not created naturally, but rather through the mining of millstones. That is why they are also known as "millstone caves" and have been a listed building …
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Millstones were mined in the 18 meter deep cave at the top of the Nerother Kopf until the 18th century. The lava stone was not only mined for the production …
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The Buchenloch cave is located in the Gerolsteiner Dolomites nature reserve.
It can be reached on foot via the "Gerolsteiner Felsenpfad" volcanic Eifel path and the Eifelsteig. The cave was …
It can be reached on foot via the "Gerolsteiner Felsenpfad" volcanic Eifel path and the Eifelsteig. The cave was …
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The softer rock was created by karstification.
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Very nicely designed entrance to a former pit, the "mountain crown". Here barite was mined in two tunnels.
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The so-called ice caves were actually created for the extraction of millstones, which were laboriously hewn out of the rock here, only then they were used as an ice cellar, …
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The forest nature trail has only been newly created. There is a lot to discover on the way to the ice caves; Tree species, seeds of trees, former quarries, forest inhabitants, mineral resources and much more.
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