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Dettingen an der Erms

Dettinger Höllenlöcher (Dettinger "Hell Holes")

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Tübingen District

Dettingen an der Erms

Dettinger Höllenlöcher (Dettinger "Hell Holes")

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Dettinger Höllenlöcher (Dettinger "Hell Holes")

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Location: Dettingen an der Erms, Landkreis Reutlingen, Tübingen District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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1. Hochgehflogen – HOCHGEHBERGE on the Swabian Alb

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2. Cherry blossom at Calverbühl in Dettingen an der Erms

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3. Grüner Fels Viewpoint – Olgafels loop from Glems

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🦣 𝕸𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖚𝖙 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖐 🏒🥅👨🏼‍🚒🚒

November 16, 2020

Very impressive - you should definitely see it for yourself 👍🏻

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Nicolet

February 14, 2022

Walter Röhm, author of the Bad Urach hiking book, explains how the hell holes came about
so - actually they are cracks in the rocks of the Weißjura delta lying on top in this area of the Alb - so that the underlying marl layers of the Weißjura gamma are to be regarded as impermeable to water. As a result, water that has penetrated into the upper layers, hitting the marl, must come out and flow down the slope and cannot seep away. During this process, according to Röhm, the layers of marl soften and become slippery, so that they no longer offer proper support to the rocks above. This process continues until individual clods tear out and go to the valley. The dizzyingly narrow rocks lying down the valley – if not already hanging – are floes that are doomed to fall but have not yet gone down into the valley, and which have already become detached from the Alb body as a result of the process described above. It will be difficult to predict when they will follow other crash candidates that have preceded them.

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Detlev Schindele

July 23, 2021

Here you should already know where to put your feet ;) Two ladders and a rocky climb out of the hell hole... It can be very slippery there and as an unsafe occasional hiker you should think twice. At least not go alone.

But when you do it, it's an unforgettable experience. The history of the earth is presented very intensively right here. We were very impressed down there ;)

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Location: Dettingen an der Erms, Landkreis Reutlingen, Tübingen District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Dettinger Höllenlöcher (Dettinger "Hell Holes")

1. Hochgehflogen – HOCHGEHBERGE on the Swabian Alb

2. Cherry blossom at Calverbühl in Dettingen an der Erms

3. Grüner Fels Viewpoint – Olgafels loop from Glems

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