Falcons (Bad Groenenbach)

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Hawks
Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 780 m above sea level NN
Residents : 6  (1987)
Postal code : 87730
Area code : 08334
Prehistoric hill fort
Prehistoric hill fort

Falken is a district of the Swabian market Bad Grönenbach in the Unterallgäu district ( Bavaria ).

geography

topography

The wasteland is on the northern tip of a plateau, about four kilometers east of Bad Grönenbach. In the vicinity are the municipality Wolfertschwenden , the village of Ittelsburg and the hamlet stripes, starting in the north, clockwise . The place can be reached from the south via Ittelsburg.

geology

The subsoil of falcons consists of the undivided Upper Freshwater Molasse , which was formed in the Miocene , with soils made of clays , silt , marl , sand and partly gravel .

Geotopes

Nagelfluhfelsen at the Falken with a memorial plaque for Albrecht Penck

At the southern tip of Falken there is a natural Nagefluhfehlsen with outcrops of gravel conglomerates. These were deposited by meltwater from the glacier during the Günze Age . Since the pieces are usually angular and rarely rounded, it can be concluded that the gravel was not transported far and the glacier front was in close proximity. The Nagelfluhfelsen is a registered geotope with the number 778R004. It has a length of 50, a width of 30 and a height of 8 meters. It is assigned to the geological spatial unit of the Iller-Lech region.

history

In the vicinity of Falken, on the ridge of the same name near Ittelsburg, there is a former Celtic refuge and the castle stables ( falcon and cock dance ). Archaeological finds, such as an ax from the Neolithic Age and a hoard of gold and bronze objects from the Bronze Age burial mounds , prove the prehistoric settlement on the Falcon ridge.

Web links

Commons : Falcons  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei, Memmingen 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 1016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geological map of Bavaria 1: 500,000. Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, Regional Development and Homeland, accessed on November 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Nagelfluhfelsen am Falken No. 778R004. Bavarian State Office for the Environment, accessed on November 22, 2015 .