While attempting to synthesize Ho 2 Te 3 O 9 by reacting Ho 2 O 3 with TeO 2 (800°C, 12 d) chloride from the CsCl flux was incidently mobilized and as by-product, Ho 11 ClTe 16 O 48 (triclinic, P1; a ϭ 551.52(3), b ϭ 1193.54(6), c ϭ 1834.63(9) pm, α ϭ 100.814(3), β ϭ 95.443(3), γ ϭ 100.175(3)°; Z ϭ 1), the first example of this new composition in the field of lanthanoid(III) chloride oxotellurates(IV) has been obtained. The six crystallographically different Ho 3ϩ cations experience a six-, seven-and eightfold coordination through oxygen atoms (d(Ho 3ϩ ϪO 2Ϫ ) ϭ 221 Ϫ 280 pm), leading to octahedral, triangle-square polyhedral, capped trigonal prismatic and square antiprismatic coordination figures. Initially, the corresponding [HoO n ] polyhedra convene to layers parallel to the (001) plane via edge and corner sharing which again combine to a [Ho 11 O 48 ] 63Ϫ network via other individual [(Ho6)O 6 ] octahedra and [(Ho2) 2 O 4/2 O 4/1 ] chains along [100], whose three-dimensional characteristic is unique among the lanthanoid(III) oxotellurates(IV) known to date. The eight crystallographically independent Te 4ϩ cations exhibit coordination numbers of 3 and 3ϩ1 in relation to oxygen, except Te1 with 3ϩ1 O 2Ϫ plus 1 Cl Ϫ as anionic neighbours. Apart from isolated [TeO 3 ] 2Ϫ polyhedra (ψ 1 tetrahedra: Einleitung System Ho 2 O 3 ϪTeO 2 [1] konnten bislang lediglich TeO 2reiche Phasen in Form von Einkristallen erhalten, röntgenstrukturanalytisch untersucht und strukturell beschrieben werden. So kristallisiert Ho 2 Te 4 O 11 (ϵ Ho 2 O 3 · 4 TeO 2 ) [2] isostrukturell mit den übrigen Lanthanoid(III)-Oxotelluraten(IV) der Zusammensetzung M 2 Te 4 O 11 (M ϭ La Ϫ Nd, Sm Ϫ Lu) [3Ϫ6] im monoklinen Nd 2 Te 4 O 11 -Typ [7] (Raumgruppe: C2/c). Die Ho 3ϩ -Kationen liegen in achtfa-1759 d(Te 4ϩ ϪO 2Ϫ ) ϭ 184 Ϫ 196 pm) only double and triple groupings occur even in considering secondary Te 4ϩ ···O 2Ϫ contacts (dЈ(Te 4ϩ ···O 2Ϫ ) ϭ 218 Ϫ 264 pm). As with HoCl[TeO 3 ], the tellurium-oxygen partial structure does not get beyond a "zerodimensional" expression. The Te 4ϩ cations adjust so well while lining the empty cavities within the 3 ϱ [Ho 11 O 48 ] 63Ϫ network, that still only two Te 4ϩ -decorated channel types (oval and round) remain unoccupied, offering space for the non-bonding electron pairs ("lone pairs"). The Cl Ϫ anions reside in the bigger oval channels (d(Cl Ϫ ϪTe 4ϩ ) ϭ 286, 352 and 358 pm, 2 ϫ each). In the default of binding Ho 3ϩ ϪCl Ϫ contacts, the correct description of this new compound would thus be holmium(III) oxochlorotellurate(IV) Ho 11 [Te 16 O 48 Cl] according to Ho 11 [TeO 3 ] 2 [Te 2 O 6 ] 2 [Te 3 O 9 ] 2 {Cl[Te 2 O 6 ] 2 }. The presence of chloride was not only detected by the structure refinement on the basis of X-ray diffraction data, but also even in such small quantities by elementary analysis with the electron-beam microprobe.