List of geotopes in the Bamberg district

This list contains the geotopes of the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bayern 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. The text passages were taken over 1: 1 with the kind permission of the LfU and are subject to copyright. This list may not be complete. Around 3400 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. Entering the geotopes is at your own risk and the LfU assumes no liability.

Surname	image	Geotope ID	Municipality / location	Geological unit of space	description	Area m² / extension m	geology	Digestion type	value	Protection status
Former quarries WNW of Sassendorf		471A002	Zapfendorf position	Northern Albrand region	In the Sassendörfer quarries, the boundary between Lias Alpha 1 and 2 was first marked by fossil finds . Outcrops can no longer be recognized due to vegetation and partial backfilling.	10000 100 × 100	Type: Layer sequence, Animal fossils Type: Sandstone	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Former Quarry NE of Zapfendorf		471A003	Zapfendorf position	Northern Albrand region	Rhätsandstein and Lias Alpha were mined in the quarry . A grotto is decorated with figures of saints and candles.	40000 200 × 200	Type: Rock, Animal Fossils Type: Sandstone	Quarry	precious	no protected area
Hollow road near Kremmeldorf		471A004	Memmelsdorf position	Northern Albrand region	The ravine is lined with cellars. The belemnite rich Lias Epsilon is open-minded .	800 100 × 8	Type: Animal Fossils, Rock Type , Gallery Type: Marlstone	embankment	precious	no protected area
Former ESE quarry in Würgau		471A005	Scheßlitz position	Northern Franconian Alb	The former quarrying of Malm Gamma in stratified facies is now partially backfilled with rubble and excavated earth.	10000 100 × 100	Type: Rock Type: Limestone	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Hohlweg SW of Helfenroth		471A008	Rattelsdorf position	Hassberge region	In the ravine is loess and the higher part of the Middle Castle sandstone at.	1500 150 × 10	Type: Rock type, ravine type: Sandstone	embankment	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Hohlweg SW of Lauter		471A010	Loud position	Hassberge region	Loess coverings and white sandstone keuper are exposed in the beautiful ravine.	120 40 × 3	Type: Rock type, ravine type: Sandstone	embankment	significant	Natural park
Hollow road N from Höfenneusig		471A011	Rattelsdorf position	Hassberge region	A marl bank in the middle castle sandstone and loess cover are exposed in the ravine.	120 40 × 3	Type: Rock type, ravine type: Sandstone	embankment	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Basalt quarries ENE from Oberleinleiter	more pictures	471A013	Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia position	Northern Franconian Alb	Two small former quarries form the only outcrops of basalt in the Franconian Jura. In the basalts you can find fragments of Malm limestone and other rocks that the formerly glowing lava carried with it when it climbed up the chimney. The rock is an olivine nephelinite with sprinkles of augite and olivine (<1 mm) in its fine-grained matrix. Age determinations showed that it originated about 31 million years ago (Oligocene).	200 20 × 10	Type: Rock Type: Basalt	Quarry	precious	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Former Dolomite quarry N from Ludwag	more pictures	471A014	Scheßlitz position	Northern Franconian Alb	Very large outcrop in the Middle Malm , which is particularly impressive in showing the horizontal and vertical transitions between layered and massive facies. In the disused quarry, reef structures are exposed. The Upper Marl Limestone is relatively rich in fossils (especially ammonites ).	240000 400 × 600	Type: Layer sequence, Animal fossils Type: Dolomite stone, Limestone	Quarry	precious	Natural park
Clay pit Holzbachacker SE from Buttenheim	more pictures	471A015	Altendorf position	Northern Albrand region	Amaltheenton (Lias delta or Pliensbachium) is mined in the Holzbachacker SE clay pit in Buttenheim. Liapor uses the material for the production of expanded clay. The extraordinary wealth of fossils in the clay pit is internationally known among collectors. In addition to cephalopods (ammonites and belemnites), echinoderms, fish and crabs can also be found. The outcrops of the Lower Toarcium (Lias epsilon) are particularly promising. Accordingly, this area is easily recognizable by collectors' excavation marks, which are particularly frequent. Often the fossils are pyritized. When pyrite is weathered, gypsum is occasionally formed. Finds of this are also possible (rare). Collecting is tolerated, especially on non-working days.	20000 200 × 100	Type: Sedimentary structures Type: Clay	Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit	especially valuable	Natural park
Exposure at the Mönchherrnsdorf sports field		471A016	Burgebrach position	Sandstone Keuper Region	In the upper edge of the exposed wall, two hard, splinter-breaking stone marl banks (horizon of the Lehrberg banks) are exposed. The top of these benches is about 18 cm thick, while the one below is just 8 cm thick. The Latvians are greenish-gray in the area of the Lehrbergbänge. Two more, less than 10 cm thick, but very distinctive dolomitic benches follow, separated by a striking brick-red Letten band. At least 2 meters of greenish-gray Latvians follow under these benches. The transition to the typical brick-red Latvians of the Steigerwald formation (Lehrberg layers) is probably in the covered foot area of the wall. The horizon of the Lehrberg benches roughly coincides with the transition from the Gipskeuper (to which the Steigerwald Formation belongs) to the Sandstone Keuper. The following rocks of the bubble sandstone (Haßberge formation) are not developed here.	175 35 × 5	Type: sequence of layers, rock type: claystone, dolomite stone	Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit	significant	Natural park
SE Eberau, former quarry in the Winkelhofer forest		471A017	Winkelhofer forest position	Sandstone Keuper Region	In the former quarry, rocks from the Coburg sandstone (Haßberge formation) were mined. After the mining had grown over decades, it was completely deforested again in October 2016 as part of a biotope project by the Bavarian State Forests. As a result of this measure, the light, almost white Coburg sandstone can now be clearly seen in the former dismantling wall. In addition to the thick sandstone benches, which can be used for ashlar, and which are smoothly benched, there are also long stretches of uneasy, fluffy, bulging benches that were unsuitable as building blocks. In some places there are also light green-gray Latvian layers between the sandstones, in which there are thin strips of sandstone.	2475 55 × 45	Type: sequence of layers, type of rock type: sandstone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Koppenwind, youth campground in the former quarry		471A018	Koppenwinder forest position	Sandstone Keuper Region	The former quarry area on the eastern edge of Koppenwind consists of two different sized and deep mining areas. The northern, smaller and flatter area is now designated as a youth campground. In this well-tended area, the extraction walls in the bubble sandstone (Haßberge formation) are still very well developed and accessible. The preferred mining target here was probably a thick sandstone bank, of which remains under a pine tree with picturesque roots at the entrance to the quarry are very nicely accessible. Above this light, beige-gray bench, thin-benched to platy sandstones follow, alternating with thin, gray layers of Latvian.	1500 50 × 30	Type: Type of rock, type of layer sequence : Sandstone	Quarry	significant	Natural park
Hollow road to the Unterhaider quarries		471G001	Oberhaid position	Hassberge region	The ravine was the entrance to the former Unterhaid quarries.	90 30 × 3	Type: Ravine Type: Sandstone	no information	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Kellergasse in Priegendorf		471G002	Baunach position	Hassberge region	On both sides of St.-Anna-Straße a total of 28 rock cellars were carved into the sandstone and used between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The cellars are locked, at the entrances and between the cellars beautiful outcrops are visible in the middle castle sandstone of the Keuper (part of the Löwenstein formation) with enclosed clay lenses (Fig. 4). Chipping marks show the easy manual workability of the sandstone. Some cellar entrances were renovated in 2004 with unrelated ashlar stones. The Kellergasse is listed as a monument (monument no. D-4-71-115-84).	1950 130 × 15	Type: rock cellar Type: sandstone	Rock cellar	significant	Monument protection, nature park
Veitenstein ENE from Lußberg	more pictures	471G003	Baunach position	Hassberge region	The rock formation consists of Rhaetian sandstone of the Upper Keuper (Exter formation). Underneath are red clay layers of the Feuerlettens (Trossingen formation). In the Veitenstein, a narrow cleft cave has probably opened due to the movements of the sandstone on the clayey layers, which continues inside as a gap up to 17 meters deep. This was carved by man in the Middle Ages and small rooms were also widened. The cave entrance is locked. On the southwest side is the Querkelesloch (Zwergleinsloch), a narrow tube, the purpose and origin of which are unclear (Fig. 3). The inscriptions from the Middle Ages are archaeologically remarkable. At the geotope there is a lookout point with a panorama board, information boards on the Veitenstein and the Haßberge forest and a wooden pavilion. It is signposted on the hiking trail from Lußberg. The Veitenstein is recorded as a ground monument Erdstall of the Middle Ages or the early modern times (monument no. D-4-5930-0004).	1600 40 × 40	Type: Machined Rock, Fissure / Tectonic Cave, Ridge Type: Sandstone	Rock slope / cliff	precious	Natural monument, ground monument, landscape protection area
Jungfernhöhle ENE von Tiefenellern	more pictures	471H001	Litzendorf position	Northern Franconian Alb	The approximately 1.5 meter high cave entrance is in the summit area of a reef dolomite dome. The cave is about two meters lower. In addition to the Neolithic linear ceramics, skeletal parts of 40 people were found. Initially it was suspected that the victims were violently killed. Further excavations in the area took place in 2008 and 2009. Geological-palaeontological investigations reveal further horizons under the 1000 year old cultural layer.	80 10 × 8	Type: Karst halfway / natural bridge Type: Dolomite stone	cave	especially valuable	Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park
Wiesent spring in Steinfeld	more pictures	471Q001	Stadelhofen position	Northern Franconian Alb	Typical karst spring from the Middle Malm (Deep Karst).	9 3 × 3	Type: Constriction Source Type: Dolomite Stone	no information	precious	Natural park
Großer Tummler in the Leinleitertal with spring cave C 69		471Q002	Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia position	Northern Franconian Alb	The Große Tummler in the upper Leinleitertal is a periodically active karst overflow spring. It only pours after the snow has melted or after intense precipitation (famine). Then, however, the pouring is so strong that the Leinleitertal, which is a dry valley in this area, is transformed into a river landscape. The source emerges in the banked limestone of the Malm beta, which is heavily tectonically stressed here. As a result of the erosion, an approx. 18 m long and up to 0.8 m high spring cave (cave register Fränkische Alb, C 69) has formed. About 40 m NW of this (up the valley) is the Kleine Tummler, which is, however, much smaller.	36 18 × 2	Type: Noise Source Type: Limestone	cave	especially valuable	Landscape component, landscape protection area, nature park
Zwirnstein NW of Steinfeld	more pictures	471R001	Stadelhofen position	Northern Franconian Alb	The group of rocks is used as a climbing rock.	10000 100 × 100	Type: Group of rocks Type: Dolomite stone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Dunes in the main moor forest E of Bamberg		471R003	Main moor forest position	Northern Albrand region	The sand dune area is over two kilometers wide. The dunes are usually 1 to 4 m high, with a maximum of 8 m. They often form elongated wall-like trains that either run in the direction of the wind (approx. SW-NE) or across it. There are also sickle-shaped dunes. It is believed that the dunes were formed in the late Worm Ice Age and in the early Post Ice Age (10,000 to 12,000 years ago). The blow-out was favored by the lack of vegetation at the time.	200000 1000 × 200	Type: Dune field Type: Sand	no information	precious	Landscape protection area
Landslide NNW from Daschendorf		471R004	Baunach position	Hassberge region	From the landslide (mid-1980s), the trailing edge and dents are still clearly visible.	200000 400 × 500	Type: Landslide Type: Mudstone	no information	precious	Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park
Ellerbachschlucht SE from Tiefenellern	more pictures	471R005	Litzendorf position	Northern Franconian Alb	Numerous springs emerge above the marl of the Lower Malm, which is not very permeable to water. The tuff formations up the valley are not only particularly powerful, but also particularly beautiful and sometimes developed like a cascade. It is assumed that the tuff formation here - in contrast to other large tufa camps - did not begin to form until after the last Ice Age, as the fossilized snail species still occur today. The stream was partially blocked for trout breeding.	15000 300 × 50	Type: Sinter Education Type: Travertine	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	significant	Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park
Blütental NE from Voitmannsdorf		471R006	Königsfeld position	Northern Franconian Alb	Rock formations with caves in the layers of the Malm Delta surround the distinctive shape of the sole valley. The valley floor is completely filled with loess.	750000 1500 × 500	Type: Sohlental, rock group, karst horizontal cave Type: Dolomite stone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Dry valley Teichgrund NE of Königsfeld		471R007	Königsfeld position	Northern Franconian Alb	In addition to the rock formations of the Malm Delta, the beautiful dry valley contains a Holocene valley filling. Prehistoric finds have been made in one of the many caves.	150000 1500 × 100	Type: Sohlental, rock group, karst horizontal cave Type: Dolomite stone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Felsburg NE von Tiefenellern	more pictures	471R008	Litzendorf position	Northern Franconian Alb	The rock castle in the mass limestone of the Malm Gamma is used as a climbing rock.	20000 100 × 200	Type: Rock Castle Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park
Wiesenttal between Steinfeld and Treunitz	more pictures	471R009	Stadelhofen position	Northern Franconian Alb	The meandering brook system with various dead arms is especially ecologically valuable.	1800000 6000 × 300	Type: Sohlental, rock group, meander Type: Dolomite stone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Rocks on the Würgauer Berg		471R010	Scheßlitz position	Northern Franconian Alb	In this case, the sponge reefs that were carved out to form rocks come from the Lower Malm.	40000 200 × 200	Type: Rock Castle Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Paradiestal NNW from Treunitz	more pictures	471R011	Stadelhofen position	Northern Franconian Alb	The Paradiestal is a well-known excursion and hiking destination.	750000 3000 × 250	Type: dry valley, rock group, karst horizontal cave Type: dolomite stone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Doline W from Roßdorf am Berg		471R012	Wattendorf position	Northern Franconian Alb	The larger sinkhole is well preserved and is partly used as a meadow. In the past, sinkholes were more common in the area.	1800 45 × 40	Type: Doline Type: Loess loam, dolomite stone	Sinkhole / sinkhole	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Steinerne Gully N by Roschlaub	more pictures	471R013	Scheßlitz position	Northern Albrand region	Beautiful stone channel that runs in the beech forest. At the source outlet there is impairment by windthrow, so that part of the source runs next to the channel.	25 50 × 0	Type: Stone gutter Type: Tufa limestone	no information	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Dry valley W of Hohenpölz		471R014	Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia position	Northern Franconian Alb	The valley follows a fault zone that runs almost parallel to the Frankenalbfurche. Between Laibarös in the N and Heroldsmühle in the S, the valley of the Leinleiter is designed as a dry valley. The upper valley area (W from Hohenpölz to Laibarös) only has sporadic water and is fed by hunger wells and tumblers (including the Great Tumbler with spring cave C 69, geotope no. 471Q002) after heavy rainfall or snowmelt. Other karst phenomena such as karst springs and spring caves can be found. Limes of the Upper Jura (Malm alpha to Malm gamma - Oxfordian and lower Kimmeridgian) are exposed in the bulging slopes of the valley flanks and at source outlets. The mostly dry watercourses in the upper valley areas are covered by Malm rubble. The formation of the dry valley can be traced back to the cold periods of the Pleistocene, during which the karst waterways were sealed by permafrost. The valley is made accessible by a geological nature trail with fossil knocking places and a supraregional hiking trail (Frankenweg).	1500000 3000 × 500	Type: Dry valley Type: Limestone	other information	especially valuable	Landscape protection area, nature park