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Location: Engelskirchen, Oberbergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

February 19, 2025

This information board for the cave path is right next to the Walbach, which you follow for a short stretch here. Interesting facts about the "stream sinkhole" of the WALBACH:

"The "Walbach", a small stream, flows 50 meters above the Aggertal floor. However, the stream does not usually find the usual route into the Agger. Shortly before the Aggertal cave, it "disappears" underground. Color samples showed that the Walbach continues to flow underground and flows into the Agger in the middle of the cottage gardens in Ründeroth. This stream sinkhole is a geological and hydrological peculiarity.
Before the Second World War, there were plans to divert the Walbach at today's Haus Hohenfels residential and nursing home and to lead it down into the Agger as a waterfall from the Weinberg hill. However, the plan was rejected due to water law obstacles. The area around the stream sinkhole and the Aggertal cave are part of the "Altenberg and Aggertalhöhlen" nature reserve, which also includes the two wooded hilltops above it."

(Heimat- und Verschönerungsverein von 1866 e. V. Ründeroth in cooperation with the Biological Station Oberberg, 2015. Created as part of the project “Hecke, Hohlweg, Heimat – Kulturlandschaftsvermittlung analogue und digital”. A project within the framework of the LVR Network Landschaftliche Kulturpflege.)
kuladig.de/Objektansicht/KLD-245869

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Location: Engelskirchen, Oberbergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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