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The tunnel mouth is about 50m from the path of the dream loop (forest path) away above the slope behind the fenced garden plots on a forgotten and overgrown farm road. After the low entrance, you come across a rusty ladder after 10 meters and only looking back reveals that the entrance was probably earlier. Then it gets exciting, because it's a bit slippery on a slope 15 meters further and a good 5 meters down(!). If you are at the bottom, turn left at right angles. This level leads through several excavation rooms, which are wide but not high, a good 70 meters far into a dome that is also low, from which tunnels lead off on both sides. But you can also go straight ahead 60 meters, then you would have to go through knee-deep water for a good 20 meters and then you might have to go further. The tunnel to the right leads 50 meters to a cathedral and then another 50 meters further. The left tunnel ends after about 45 meters. So you have a lot to do!

Not very deep, but certainly an adventure for smaller children.

At the foot of a quarry high in the hillside is the tunnel marked with the number "11". The tunnel, which is almost square at the beginning (you can only see a triangle from the outside because the right side is covered with leaves) leads a long way into the mountain through several excavation chambers, but is quite low in places due to the slate debris.

There is also a rest stop directly at the slate quarry

In 1880, Friedrich Wilhelm Franz from Wohnroth began digging a tunnel in the Katzenloch forest. He wanted to mine the coveted roofing slate here. However, the work was not crowned with success, the slate was of little use. He wasn't blue enough, as the technical term goes. Not hard enough we would say, it weathered too easily on the roof. So the work was soon abandoned. Today, the short, angled tunnel, also known as the Schnäirersch Leyebruch, is often used by children as a playground. Source: https://wohnroth-hunsrueck.de/geschichte-und-geschichten/schiefergruber.html

Hidden tunnel mouth, one of several in the region. Exciting.