Anzenberg (basalt dome)
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| height | 593 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Tirschenreuth district , Upper Palatinate , Bavaria , Germany | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '6 " N , 11 ° 55' 11" E | |
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| Last eruption | in the tertiary | |
The Anzenberg is a basalt cone 593 m above sea level. NN and is located two kilometers east of Kemnath on the B 22 Kemnath-Schönreuth in the Tirschenreuth district. It belongs to the tertiary volcanoes of the northern Upper Palatinate and consists of a chimney breccia . A cross adorns the pointed rock group on the rock summit, which is known as Anzenstein.
geology
Only the summit consists of tertiary basalt rock, the rest of the mountain consists of Benker sandstone. There is a lot of olivine and augite crystal in the basalt scraps .
Geotope
The basaltic , long elliptical chimney breccia filling has been designated as a valuable geotope (377R005) by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment .
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Gümpel: Geognostic Description of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Fichtelgebirge, Franconian Forest and Western Foreland (1879), pp. 13, 243
- Friedrich Müller: Bavaria's rich corner. (Hof / Saale 1984), p. 230
- Berthold Weber: Minerals from our homeland. Weiden 1976 and 1982
- Bavarian-Bohemian Geopark, Parkstein: Mountains of fire and stone. 2009 brochure accompanying the exhibition
- Martin Füßl / Berthold Weber: Forays through geological history - Northern Upper Palatinate (2009), p. 106
- Fritsch hiking map No. 54 Steinwald-Stiftland, scale 1: 50,000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment: Geotop 377R005, Härtling SW von Anzenberg (accessed on October 25, 2018).
Web links
Commons : Härtling bei Anzenberg - collection of images, videos and audio files
