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Kätheren Küche Cave

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Tübingen District

Kätheren Küche Cave

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Kätheren Küche Cave

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Geopark Schwäbische Alb

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Location: Ehingen (Donau), Alb-Donau-Kreis, Tübingen District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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1. Kätheren Küche Cave – View of the Weites Tal loop from Ehingen

25.4km

01:48

280m

Easy mountain bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Kätheren Küche Cave – View of Blauer Steinbruch loop from Schelklingen

31.8km

02:12

280m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Wolfstal Valley – Rock Tunnel at Lautertal loop from Ehingen

57.7km

05:16

1,240m

Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

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Martin Schreiner

July 21, 2024

Very worth seeing, a great open karst cave that was inhabited 100 years ago.

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Domi Nik-thenameitis

November 4, 2019

At the end of the 18th century until the beginning of the 19th century, a certain Katharina Schunter lived in this cave. She earned her living by begging, at times she also helped with the field work of farmers from the surrounding area. As soon as she cooked in the cave, clouds of smoke rose through the holes in the cave ceiling. At the farmers in the vicinity it was called "D'Käther cooks". A marriage with the Catholic Bartholomä from Briel and the Protestant Katharina Schunter was not approved by the pastor from Altsteußlingen. The thus remained single Katharina died in 1828 at the age of 44 years. She was buried in Weilersteußlingen.
Katharina Schunter is immortalized on the one hand in the name of the cave "Käthra Kuche" and on the other in the foolish cry "Käthra Kuche" of the Ehinger Narrenzunft Spritzenmuck.
Her parents lived or lived in the nearby Schunterhöhle in Rauhtal.

Tradition has it that during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) farmers from Briel also sought refuge from plundering Swedish soldiers in this cave.

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oro96

March 19, 2020

Nice place also for a break and gives an insight into an unusual story.

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Elevation 620 m

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Location: Ehingen (Donau), Alb-Donau-Kreis, Tübingen District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Kätheren Küche Cave

1. Kätheren Küche Cave – View of the Weites Tal loop from Ehingen

2. Kätheren Küche Cave – View of Blauer Steinbruch loop from Schelklingen

3. Wolfstal Valley – Rock Tunnel at Lautertal loop from Ehingen

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