Schieferbergwerk Felicitas
Mine diving in the Sauerland · about 3 km from Bad Fredeburg (Schmallenberg)
- Max depth
- 50 m
- Trimix from
- 45 m
- Type
- Backmount
- Certification (estimate)
- Cavern
Slate mine (roofing and slab slate, also school slates) since 1863; first with explosives, from the 1950s with saw machines. Mining ended in 1990 or the early 2000s (sources differ).
More about Schieferbergwerk Felicitas
Signed-in divers also see:
- Whether this site fits everyone's certification, gas and gear
- Access, parking and the route from the road
- Exact map pin and navigation
- Depth profile and sumps
- Configuration advice
- Warnings with sources (2)
- DPV suitability
- Driving times from your stay and a plan with the AI instructor
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Current conditions
Visibility, flow and water levels change quickly. Right before your dive, check what other divers report:
- Scapehander – nieuws ↗
Club that runs access to Christine and Schwalefeld: news, rules and registration.
- Taucher.Net ↗
German dive-site database with divers' reports and visibility notes (partly old).
Plan a cave diving trip to the Sauerland
Enter your team, with certifications, gas and configurations, and see right away which caves fit. With driving times from your stay, fill stations and an AI instructor who thinks along.
Certification requirements, configurations and trimix depths are estimates for planning. Always check them locally and dive within your training. Compiled from web research (operators bergwerktauchen.de, tauchschule-sauerland.de, bergwerktauchen-felicitas.de, scapehander.de and see-im-berg.de; tauchrevierdeutschland.de, minediving.de, taucher.net, wannadive.net, willingen.de, bad-fredeburg.de, schieferbau-nuttlar.de, WLZ, t-online, uanliker.ch, the GTÜM chamber list and Wikipedia; Sept 2026). Pins for Nuttlar (wannadive), Christine (willingen.de), Felicitas (Wikipedia) and Kleinenbremen (OpenStreetMap); the Schwalefeld entrance is deliberately not published. ~ = estimate. Rules change — check locally.