Blautopf
The Blautopf is a spring that is considered the source of the river Blau in the karst landscape on the Swabian Jura's southern edge. It is located in Blaubeuren, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.Places of Interest
Highlights include Blauhöhle and Burg Blauenstein.
Blauhöhle
Cave
The Blauhöhle is the largest known cave system in the Swabian Alps in southern Germany. The Blauhöhle presumably originated in a time when the Danube still flowed through the Blau valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blaubeuren and Schelklingen.
Blaubeuren
Town
Blaubeuren is a town in the district of Alb-Donau near Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of December 2007 it had 11,963 inhabitants.
Schelklingen
Village
Schelklingen is a town in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is situated 10 km north of Ehingen, and 20 km west of Ulm. Schelklingen and 82% of its territory form part of the Swabian Jura Biosphere Reserve. Schelklingen is situated 6 km southwest of Blautopf.
Blautopf
- Type: Body of water
- Description: karst source of the river Blau in Germany
- Categories: spring, geotope, and natural monument in Germany
- Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
48.41615° or 48° 24′ 58″ north
Longitude
9.78414° or 9° 47′ 3″ east
Elevation
674 metres (2,211 feet)
Open location code
8FWFCQ8M+FM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=stream_pool
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Blautopf” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلوتوبف”
- Bavarian: “Blautopf”
- Cebuano: “Blautopf”
- Chinese: “布劳托普夫泉”
- Croatian: “Blautopf”
- Danish: “Blautopf”
- Dutch: “Blautopf”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلوتوبف”
- French: “Blautopf”
- German: “Blautopf”
- Indonesian: “Blautopf”
- Italian: “Blautopf”
- Japanese: “ブラウトップ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blautopf”
- Russian: “Блаутопф”
- Spanish: “Blautopf”
- Swedish: “Blautopf”
- Swiss German: “Bloodopf”
- Tosk Albanian: “Blautopf”
- Ukrainian: “Блаутопф”
- Vietnamese: “Blautopf”
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