Falkenfluh (Oberdiessbach)

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Schafegg / Falkenfluh
height 1196  m above sea level M.
location Canton of Bern , Switzerland
Dominance 4.07 km →  Ringgis
Notch height 275 m ↓  Chrüzweg
Coordinates 617 822  /  186473 coordinates: 46 ° 49 '45 "  N , 7 ° 40' 20"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty-two  /  186473
Falkenfluh (Oberdiessbach) (Canton of Bern)
Falkenfluh (Oberdiessbach)
rock Nagelfluh
Age of the rock 16–22 million years

The Falkenfluh , Swiss German also Falkenflue written is a mountain and vantage point in the Swiss canton of Bern .

location

The Falkenfluh rises on the eastern edge of the wide Aare valley between Bern and Thun , around 8 km north of the city of Thun, and lies largely on the municipality of Oberdiessbach . At the triangulation point, the Falkenfluh reaches a height of 1021  m above sea level. M. It towers over the adjacent valley lowlands of the Chise near Oberdiessbach by a little more than 400 m. The Falkenfluh and its ridge to the east is located between the valleys of Diessbach in the north and Rotache in the south. To the west, the Falkenfluh drops steeply with a rock face.

Geographically, the Falkenfluh belongs to the pre-alpine hill country between the river valleys of the Aare and Emme . A partly wooded, partly with meadows and pastures ridge leads to the east up to the height of the Schafegg , which with 1196  m above sea level. M. forms the highest point of the Falkenfluhkette.

geology

The rocks of the Falkenfluh mainly come from the deposit period of the Upper Sea Molasse . This sediment layer was formed around 22 to 16 million years ago when numerous rivers eroded rock material in the Alps and deposited it in the Molasse basin north of the Alps.

The Falkenfluh mainly consists of Nagelfluh , a conglomerate of rounded stone blocks of different sizes, which are solidified with a binding agent (lime, sand and clay) to form a coherent rock. Fine-grained sandstone and marl layers are also embedded between the Nagelfluh layers .