Bürgergrotte, Rock formation in Niedeck, Germany

The Bürgergrotte is a shelter cut into a sandstone rock west of Niedeck, a village southeast of Göttingen in the municipality of Gleichen. A bench is carved from the same rock inside the shelter. A metal plaque with a portrait of Gottfried August Bürger hangs to the left of the opening, and an information board with his poem "Der Liebekranke" is fixed to the rock face.

The shelter was cut into a sandstone cliff west of Niedeck, where the poet Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794) met Auguste Leonhart, called Molly (1758–1786), secretly in the 1770s. She was his sister-in-law and later his second wife; her father Johann Carl Leonhart was Amtmann of Gut Niedeck. The rock bench inside belongs to the site.

The name comes from the poet Gottfried August Bürger, who met Auguste Leonhart, called Molly, here secretly in the 1770s. A panel on the rock displays his poem "Der Liebekranke". The carved bench inside the shelter is still used as a rest spot on the forest path.

The Bürgergrotte is reached from the forest path via a trail several hundred metres long along the rock edge; north of the grotto this trail leads back down to the forest path. The site lies west of Niedeck, southeast of Göttingen.

Left of the shelter, a metal plaque shows a portrait of Bürger; on the rock face itself hangs a notice board with information and his poem "Der Liebekranke". The shelter and its bench are cut directly from the sandstone, so the whole site is worked stone rather than a natural cave.