List of geotopes in the district of Ansbach
This list contains the geotopes of the Central Franconian district of Ansbach in Bavaria . The list contains the official names and numbers of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) as well as their geographical location. This list is incomplete. Around 3,400 geotopes (as of March 2020) are recorded in the Bavarian geotope register. The LfU does not consider some geotopes suitable for publication on the Internet. For example, some objects are not safely accessible or may only be entered to a limited extent for other reasons.
Surname | image | Geotope ID | Municipality / location | Geological unit of space | description | Area m² / extension m | geology | Digestion type | value | Protection status | comment |
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Former Quarry on the Hesselberg NE of Gerolfingen |
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571A001 |
Gerolfingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | The quarry on the Hesselberg opens up the border between Malm Gamma and Beta and is rich in fossils. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Layer sequence, Animal fossils Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 28 |
Quarry NE of Wittelshofen | 571A002 |
Wittelshofen position |
Southwest Albrand region | In the quarry, the layer sequence Posidonia slate / Jurensis marl / Opalinus Clay is exposed. The outcrop is fenced in to prevent the overexploitation of fossils. Information boards are set up. Fossil-rich Posidonia schist fragments can also be found outside the fence. | 10000 200 × 50 |
Type: Layer sequence, Animal fossils Type: Mudstone |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area | ||
Former SSE quarry in Illenschwang | 571A003 |
Wittelshofen position |
Southwest Albrand region | Former quarry on the edge of a rubble dump that opens up the border between ariet sandstone and angulate sandstone . The Angulate sandstone here is rich in rounded concretions that are locally called Swedish spheres. | 1200 40 × 30 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: Sandstone |
Quarry | precious | Natural monument | ||
Former Quarry SE from Wilburgstetten | 571A004 |
Weiltingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | Former break in ariet sandstone, today almost completely overgrown. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Rock Type: Sandstone |
Quarry | precious | Natural monument | ||
Former sand pit NE von Winden | 571A005 |
Leutershausen position |
Sandstone Keuper Region | Former sand pit near Winds , on the outcrop wall of which sedimentary structures in the bubble sandstone are clearly visible. | 40 20 × 2 |
Type: Rock Type: Sandstone |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | Landscape component, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quarry NW of Vorbach | 571A006 |
Rothenburg ob der Tauber position |
Eastern Franconian Plates | The quarry near Vorbach provides an insight into the rock sequence of the Upper Muschelkalks at the transition to the rectangular limestone facies. | 15000 150 × 100 |
Type: Rock Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | FFH area, bird sanctuary, nature park | ||
Gypsum break SSE from Endsee |
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571A007 |
Steinsfeld position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | The lower myophoric layers are exposed in the gypsum quarry , it is one of the “100 most beautiful geotopes in Bavaria” . Marl banks and plaster layers follow over base gypsum (7 m). Haunschild described here galena Bank as light gray, fossil-free stone marl location with Kalkspatdrusen . | 16000 200 × 80 |
Type: Rock type, tunnels, carts / fields, folds / troughs / saddles Type: plaster, mudstone |
Quarry | significant | Landscape component, landscape protection area, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 10 |
Marl pit N of Cadolzhofen | 571A008 |
Windelsbach position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | In the marl pit north of Cadolzhofen , layers of estheria are exposed . The rock consists mainly of dark gray clays and marls with white plaster strings. | 3000 150 × 20 |
Type: Rock Type: Marlstone |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Former clay pit N of Burghausen | 571A009 |
Windelsbach position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | In the former clay pit north of Burghausen , mainly gray to greenish black clay stones and marls from the Estherian layers have been developed. Plaster layers are occasionally turned on in the lower area. | 3000 100 × 30 |
Type: Rock Type: Clay Marlstone |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | significant | Landscape component, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former Clay pit NE of Bellershausen | 571A010 |
Diebach position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | In the clay pit near Bellershausen , the border between myophoria and estheria layers is exposed. | 3000 100 × 30 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: Mudstone |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former clay pit N von Gastenfelden | 571A011 |
Book at the forest position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | In the former clay pit near Gastenfelden , a displacement of approx. 150 cm can be seen in the outcrop in the Lehrberg layers . | 4000 200 × 20 |
Type: Rock type, Fault type: Clay marl |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Street outcrop N of Seitendorf | 571A012 |
Heilsbronn position |
Sandstone Keuper Region | The road outcrop near Seitendorf shows the type locality of the Seitendorf intermediate layers. According to Fuchs (1959) this is a sequence of bubble sandstone in which sandstone and Latvian layers alternate. | 150 50 × 3 |
Type: Standard / Reference Profile Type: Sandstone |
embankment | precious | Natural monument | ||
Former marl pit SW of Auerbach | 571A013 |
Colmberg position |
Sandstone Keuper Region | In the overgrown part of the Auerbach marl pit , the "Frommetsfeldener fault" was previously exposed, where the Lehrberg layers bordered on sandstone reeds. Today only Lehrberg layers are recognizable, in 2010 only the northern part was preserved. The rest is completely overgrown and partly recultivated. | 40 20 × 2 |
Type: fault, rock type: marlstone |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former sand pit NE of Rühlingstetten | 571A014 |
Wilburgstetten position |
Southwest Albrand region | Former sand pit near Rühlingstetten , in which white to reddish, mostly unsolidified sandstones with kaolinized feldspars from the Upper Castle sandstone are exposed . | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Rock Type: Sandstone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural monument | ||
Gorge SE from Schlierberg | 571A015 |
Ehingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | In the valley of the Kesselbach , the complete sequence of layers of the hettangium (psilonate layer, angulate sandstone) is exposed. The outcrops are easily accessible on the upper stream, but are partly covered by debris. The lower stream is heavily overgrown. Some of the outcrops are rich in fossils. | 15000 150 × 100 |
Type: Rock type, stream / river course Type: Sandstone |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Natural monument | ||
Clay pit NNE by Schwand | 571A016 |
Leutershausen position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | In the clay pit near Schwand , the Lehrberg layers are open. They are up to 10 m thick here, and their benches are easily recognizable over a length of 100 m. The pit is used by the city of Leutershausen. | 2000 100 × 20 |
Type: Rock Type: Marlstone |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Bubble sandstone outcrop at Rüdern | 571A017 |
Dietenhofen position |
Sandstone Keuper Region | In the case of Rüdern , inclined sandstone is exposed in alternation with clay stones. | 80 20 × 4 |
Type: sedimentary structures, rock type: sandstone, mudstone |
embankment | precious | Natural park | ||
Dogger outcrop on Hesselberg NW of Wittelshofen | 571A018 |
Gerolfingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | In the middle part of the geological nature trail on the Hesselberg, a small dig opens up the approximately 1 m thick sand-lime brick of the Dogger Gamma, including the overlying and underlying layers. Information boards point out the fossils in the sand-lime brick. | 12 6 × 2 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: sandstone, marlstone |
Schurf | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Castle sandstone outcrop NE of Fürnheim | 571A019 |
Wassertrüdingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | At the outcrop near Fürnheim you can see coarse-grained, sloping upper castle sandstone with numerous mudstone rubble. | 200 40 × 5 |
Type: sedimentary structures, rock type: sandstone, gravel |
embankment | precious | no protected area | ||
Road exposure SSE from Oberoestheim | 571A021 |
Diebach position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | High road embankment near Oberoestheim , where layers of plaster of paris are exposed . Easily accessible for good excursions because of the parking lot opposite. | 250 50 × 5 |
Type: Rock Type: Marl, Gypsum |
embankment | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Gypsum karst spring Bottomless hole |
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571Q002 |
Diebach position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | The karst spring Bodenlos Loch SW of Unteroestheim lies in the area of the base gypsum. It is a 15 m wide spring pot with a depth of approx. 6 m. | 300 20 × 15 |
Type: Constriction Source Type: Plaster of Paris |
no information | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 40 |
Hill slide W from Obergailnau |
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571R002 |
Wettringen position |
Gypsum Keuper Region | In February 1958 there was a landslide west of Obergailnau below the Schloßberg . An approximately 120 m long and 20 m wide floe made of sandstone reed slid about 10 m. The reed sandstone is strongly fissured, which is why seeping water soaked the layers of estheria and myophoria underneath, which then served as a sliding surface. | 7500 150 × 50 |
Type: landslide, rock type: claystone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Malmkalkscholle Turtelberg W from Ostheim | 571R003 |
Wassertrüdingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | Distinctive little knoll west of Ostheim from Malmkalk on Bunter Breccia . The limestone clod was thrown into this place by the Ries event . | 400 20 × 20 |
Type: Ejecta Material (Impact) Type: Limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | especially valuable | no protected area | ||
Doline N by Bettenfeld | 571R004 |
Rothenburg ob der Tauber position |
Eastern Franconian Plates | Ponordoline north of Bettenfeld (Rothenburg ob der Tauber) , which is only temporarily active. It is located in the Lower Keuper , in the subsoil there is karstified shell limestone . | 80 10 × 8 |
Type: sinkhole Type: mudstone, limestone |
no information | precious | Natural park |
See also
- List of nature reserves in the city of Ansbach
- List of landscape protection areas in Ansbach
- List of FFH areas in the city of Ansbach
- List of nature reserves in the Ansbach district
- List of landscape protection areas in the district of Ansbach
- List of FFH areas in the Ansbach district
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data source: Bavarian State Office for the Environment, www.lfu.bayern.de, Geotoprecherche (accessed on September 16, 2017)
Web links
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