Access: small path halfway up from the east ascent opposite the small pulpit that points towards the Birk valley

During excavations between 1967 and 1971, Karl-Heinz Rieder found numerous pottery shards and metal objects from the early bronze, urnfield, Hallstatt and Celtic times, but also indications that the cave was still used as a refuge for people in the Middle Ages.

According to legend, an underground passage once led from Waggerlloch to Arnsberg Castle.
That is not true, but it could give a huge boost to tourism, thought Mayor Heinrich Hackner 50 years ago, and decided to give the legend a boost. On the spur of the moment, he ordered a man into the cave who was supposed to work his way towards Arnsberg with a shovel and pick. But the cunning plan did not work: the rock turned out to be too hard; the sweat-drenched worker threw the hoe aside in frustration after driving half a meter.

Source:
donaukurier.de/lokales/eichstaett/Kipfenberg-Zerplatzte-Traeume-im-Waggerlloch;art575,3264783
naturpark-altmuehltal.de/sehenswerte/michelsberg_bei_kipfenberg-2310

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Christoph Stoffel Bö

June 8, 2022

the Waggerloch is a small, quite hidden cave in the rock

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Karin

September 6, 2022

Interesting cave that can be entered in two directions by bending down

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vanbaum

July 18, 2023

Small cave on the castle hill of Kipfenberg Castle. You can take it with you if you run there ehrl.

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Tamakoe

August 21, 2021

At the viewing platform, a narrow footpath goes up the mountain after 25m behind a rock, the Waggerloch hides a cave in the rock. Take a torch with you when the weather is overcast.

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