The Top 5 Caves around Bad Hersfeld

Looking to visit a cave around Bad Hersfeld on your next adventure? To help you better plan your next outdoor experience, we’ve collected Bad Hersfeld’s 5 best caves for you. Based on the experiences of other users, each is a recommendation you know you can trust — so you can better plan your next adventure.

Hilmeser Loch Sinkhole

Kurfürsten-Stollen Iba

Ransbacher Senke Cave

Neuer Mut Mine near Hattenbach

Hilmeser Loch Natural Monument

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Hilmeser Loch Sinkhole
Hiking Highlight
The Hilmeser Loch is a shaft cave created by landslides in the limestone on the Landecker Berg. The burglar funnel is secured with a wooden railing. The cave was created …
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Kurfürsten-Stollen Iba
Mountain Biking Highlight
The Kurfürstenstollen is located directly on the Iba nature trail. There has been evidence of mining in the Richelsdorf Mountains since 1460. Since then, Iba has been closely associated with …
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Ransbacher Senke Cave
Hiking Highlight
The “Ransbacher Senke” rift cave is of regional importance as winter quarters for bats. In 2008, the State Association for Cave and Karst Research Hessen e. V. for example the Bechstein's bat and the great mouse-eared bat.
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Neuer Mut Mine near Hattenbach
Hiking Highlight
There is a wealth of information on this topic, published in several "My Homeland" supplements of the Hersfelder Zeitung.
Here are the links to three of these publications in PDF …
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Hilmeser Loch Natural Monument
Mountain Biking Highlight
The closed hole is the natural monument "Hilmeser Loch". The last depth measured in 2018 by the Cave Research Club Bad Hersfeld e.V. was about 20 m. Reports from the …
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