List of geotopes in the district of Kronach

This list contains the geotopes of the Upper Franconian district of Kronach 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 may not be complete. 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
Hollow road near Wolfersdorf		476A001	Stockheim position	Franconian Forest	The ravine near Wolfersdorf is the z. Currently most instructive exposure in the round-grain sandstone of the Upper Rotliegend in the Stockheim basin. A total of three sandstone cellars have been cut into the ravine. There are very good exposure conditions.	10 10 × 1	Type: Rock Type: Sandstone	embankment	precious	Natural park
Rock cellar in Burggrub		476A002	Stockheim position	Franconian Forest	The rock cellars opposite the Goldener Adler inn are in the round-grained sandstone of the Oberrotliegend in the Stockheim basin.	20 10 × 2	Type: Rock Type: Sandstone	Rock cellar	precious	Natural park
Mitwitzer Straße embankment in Burggrub		476A003	Stockheim position	Franconian Forest	Street profile with white lying areas, copper slate and Zechstein. It is the only outcrop in the Zechstein (with fauna) in the Stockheim basin. An information board describes the geological profile. The outcrop is in very poor condition (it was cleared of bushes, but would have to be re-digged).	500 50 × 10	Type: Standard / Reference Profile, Rock Type , Animal Fossils Type: Dolomite Stone, Sandstone	embankment	especially valuable	Natural park
Former sand pit Haderleinswustung		476A004	Mitwitz position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The attractive outcrop in the Kulmbach conglomerate of the Middle Buntsandstein documents some sloping bodies.	30 15 × 2	Type: sedimentary structures, rock type: sandstone	Gravel pit / sand pit	precious	Natural park
Shell limestone outcrop of the Zeyerner Wand	more pictures	476A005	Marktrodach position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The rock face above the Rodach opens up a complete profile through the Lower Muschelkalk in the immediate vicinity of the Franconian Line, the lower part of the profile is z. T. falls.	3200 400 × 8	Type: Sequence of layers, rock wall / slope Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	especially valuable	Nature reserve
Former Krauss quarry near Remschlitz		476A006	Wilhelmsthal position	Franconian Forest	The famous Krauss quarry near Remschlitz opens up Rauwacken of the Middle and Hornsteinkalke of the Upper Muschelkalk.	50 10 × 5	Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone, Rauhwacke	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Weißenbrunn sand pit		476A007	Weißenbrunn position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	Sands in the Kulmbach conglomerate were extracted from the abandoned mine. These are exhausted because they were adjacent to the main red sandstone due to a disturbance parallel to the slope.	90000 600 × 150	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate, Sandstone	Gravel pit / sand pit	significant	no protected area
Former sand pit Neuenreuth S von Kronach		476A008	Weißenbrunn position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The outcrop opens up a complete pouring cycle of the Middle Buntsandstein.	3000 100 × 30	Type: Rock type, Sedimentary structures Type: Sandstone	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Felsenkeller Haig, Von-Cramer-Klett-Strasse 19		476A009	Stockheim position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The only white lying outcrop in the Bavaria-Thuringia region is in the Felsenkeller (von-Cramer-Klett-Str. 19), which has been known to geologists across Bavaria for more than 100 years.	20 10 × 2	Type: Rock type, sedimentary structures, tunnels Type: Sandstone	Rock cellar	precious	Natural park
Ruppen foundry sand pit		476A010	Kronach position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The type locality of the molding sands from Ruppen (Roet) is open. The former quarry is the last document of the formerly important molding sand and whetstone extraction near Kronach. There is currently no public access to the site.	1600 80 × 20	Type: Type locality, sedimentary structures Type: Sandstone	Quarry	precious	Natural park
Former quarries in the Stübental		476A011	Kronach position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	In the former quarry, the border carnelian horizon is still relatively open.	400 40 × 10	Type: Rock Type: Sandstone	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Rodachprallhang Fels S from Friedrichsburg		476A012	Weißenbrunn position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The outcrop in the deeper part of the Kulmbach conglomerate is stable and not endangered by the bank reinforcement of the Rodach.	250 50 × 5	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Kellerberg near Schneckenlohe-Beikheim		476A013	Snail position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	A few cellars were carved into the rock of the Middle Buntsandstein. The trees in the area are protected as a natural monument.	600 60 × 10	Type: rock type, tunnel type: sandstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Former quarry NE of Leutendorf		476A014	Mitwitz position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The former quarry offers a profile through the Lower Buntsandstein with sloping bodies and thick-banked segregation.	1200 60 × 20	Type: Rock Type: Sandstone	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former limestone quarry Fiedlers Bruch E von Dörfles		476A015	Kronach position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The abandoned quarry in the Upper Muschelkalk is located in the LSG. Machine parts and a motocross track secured with tires prevent the development of a balanced biotope.	180000 600 × 300	Type: Rock Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Section of road in LSG E of Dörfles		476A016	Kronach position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The large stable wall is formed by fractured surfaces. In the section you can see weathered sedimentary structures and fossils.	100 50 × 2	Type: Rock Type: Limestone	embankment	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Glosberg quarry		476A017	Kronach position	Franconian Forest	The large abandoned quarry in the clay slate Greywacke series of the Lower Carboniferous shows numerous current marks and loadcasts. Individual Grauwacke benches are rich in shredded plants.	15000 100 × 150	Type: Sedimentary structures, rock type, plant fossils Type: greywacke, claystone	Quarry	precious	Part of the landscape, nature park
Former Quarry NE of Mauthaus		476A018	North half position	Franconian Forest	The former quarry is located in the sausage conglomerate within the Lehesten layers. A fauna was identified in a switched-on coal-lime lens. The former quarry is currently used as the road maintenance depot's storage area.	750 50 × 15	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former quarry on Rauhen Berg W von Pressig		476A019	Pressy position	Franconian Forest	Sedimentation marks and plant remains are clearly visible in the walls of the abandoned quarry in the Grauwacken and clay slates of the upper Teuschnitz strata. Today the break serves as a building rubble dump.	40000 400 × 100	Type: Rock Type: Grauwacke	Quarry	significant	Natural park
Former municipal quarry in Hesselbach		476A020	Wilhelmsthal position	Franconian Forest	The abandoned municipal quarry opens up Lower Teuschnitzschichten with numerous sediment structures (flute casts and load casts), the bottom of the quarry was filled with rubble and leveled. After the fracture had grown over strongly, it was released again in 2010.	5000 100 × 50	Type: Type of rock, sedimentary structures Type: Grauwacke	Quarry	significant	Natural park
Former Quarry N of Förtschendorf		476A021	Steinbach am Wald position	Franconian Forest	The outcrop lies in the upper Teuschnitzer layers and tends to topple (due to the collapse of the layers).	20000 200 × 100	Type: Rock Type: Grauwacke	Quarry	significant	Natural park
Former Quarry N von Posseck in the Teuschnitz Valley		476A022	Pressy position	Franconian Forest	The abandoned quarry lies in thick-banked Grauwacken (Teuschnitzschichten, lower carbon). The 1 to 3 meter thick bank drops steeply to the north.	400 20 × 20	Type: Rock Type: Grauwacke	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former quarry near Posseck i. Bay.		476A023	Pressy position	Franconian Forest	The type locality of the Posseck conglomerate with quartz and typical green silica slate in Grauwacken is open.	600 30 × 20	Type: type locality, rock type: conglomerate	Quarry	precious	Natural park
Teuschnitz conglomerate in the Bürgerbachtal SSE of Teuschnitz		476A024	Teuschnitz position	Franconian Forest	The type locality of the Teuschnitz conglomerate with poorly sorted, well-rounded rubble is open.	1300 130 × 10	Type: Type locality Type: Conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former quarry E of the linen mill		476A025	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	The alternating layering of thick-banked greywacke with dark clay slate is open.	2500 50 × 50	Type: Rock Type: Grauwacke	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Broken roof slate near Dürrenwaiderhammer	more pictures	476A026	Langenbacher Forst position	Franconian Forest	The Dürrenwaider roof slate store in the hanging wall of the lower border slate has been developed. The slates contain plant remains and a rich Nereites trace fauna.	2500 100 × 25	Type: trace fossils, rock type: mudstone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Schmiedsgrundkonglomerat NW von Wallenfels		476A027	Wallenfels position	Franconian Forest	In the small abandoned quarry, the type locality of the Schmiedsgrund conglomerate, as well as Grauwacken and (Borden) slate, is open. A total of 18 layers are mapped.	200 20 × 10	Type: Type locality, sequence of layers Type: conglomerate, greywacke, claystone	Quarry	precious	Natural park
Tunnel at Silberberg W of Wallenfels	more pictures	476A028	Wallenfels position	Franconian Forest	From 1407 to 1918, with several interruptions, a silver-bearing galena was mined under various names (most recently as Carls-Zeche) on the Silberberg near Wallenfels. The ore was bound to a hydrothermal quartz vein and also contained zinc blende and pyrite (sometimes beautiful pentagon dodecahedra). Lime tuber slate with sliding folds and colorful Upper Devonian clay slate stand in the vicinity of the closed mouth hole. The right, barred tunnel is a bat winter quarters, the left tunnel is broken directly behind the mouth hole.	60 20 × 3	Type: Layer sequence, corridor, tunnel Type: claystone	Tunnel / gallery / shaft	especially valuable	Natural park
Former quarry SW of Geuser		476A029	Wallenfels position	Franconian Forest	Former quarry in Devonian limestone, which is believed to be a sliding mass in the Lower Carboniferous slate and Grauwacken series. The fauna consists of mollusks and conodonts of the Nehden and Hemberg levels.	1250 50 × 25	Type: Rock Type: Limestone	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Oertels roof slate quarry W from Ludwigsstadt	more pictures	476A030	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	The Devonian / Carboniferous border is open. The layers are inverted and belong to the overturned southeast leg of a saddle structure. The quarry wall shows foliation phenomena. In the ascent to the quarry, mighty spoil heaps testify to the formerly brisk mining of the lower carbon black slate.	4000 100 × 40	Type: Rock Type: Mudstone	Quarry	significant	Natural park	Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 21
Schallersbruch 2.5 km west of Ludwigsstadt		476A031	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	Large funnel-shaped roof slate opencast mine with an extensive dump area. A viewing platform enables a view into the 40 m deep excavation. Several tunnels can be seen in the opposite wall. The break is on the Eisenberg geoppath and has an information board.	4000 100 × 40	Type: rock type, tunnel type: claystone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former quarry W of Ebersdorf		476A033	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	The former quarry is in the backyard of a residential building! While the ocher limestone is still clearly visible in the quarry wall, graptolite slate would have to be excavated.	450 30 × 15	Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	Natural park
Griffelschieferbruch N von Ebersdorf		476A034	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	The former style slate mining shows a profile with style slate, upper ore horizon, sandstone and leather slate. The outcrop is strongly overgrown.	200 20 × 10	Type: Layer sequence Type: Mudstone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Quarry near Lauenstein on the way to the Thüringer Warte		476A035	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	Until a few years ago, the phycode layers in the quarry were broken down for local use.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Rock Type: Mudstone	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Roof slate pit Taugwitz W von Ebersdorf		476A036	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	The Devonian slates were extracted as roofing slate. A 3.56 m high tunnel has been created in the eastern section, which seems to have reached the level of the Flaserkalk.	5600 80 × 70	Type: Layer sequence, quarry / pit Type: Slate	Quarry	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Picrit outcrop in Rodachtal SW from Bernstein a. W.		476A037	Wallenfels position	Franconian Forest	On a hiking trail above the confluence of the Bernsteiner Bach in the Wilde Rodach is one of the few outcrops of a black-green picrit in the Upper Devonian Diabase. The rock near the surface is fissured and heavily weathered.	500 25 × 20	Type: Type of rock, type of layers : meta-basalt	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Diabasbruch SE from Ottendorf	more pictures	476A038	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	An Upper Devonian diabase is extracted, which has penetrated between graptolite schist and tentaculite limestone. Anchorite mineralization occurs at the contact with the lime. Gravel calves (pyrite inclusions) are also found in the slate.	100000 500 × 200	Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers, minerals Type: Basalt, limestone	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Aufgel. Slate quarry WSW from Fischbachsmühle		476A039	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	In the abandoned quarry on Spitzberg, Ordovician style slate of the Graefenthal layers (Thuringian Facies series) was probably mined until the 20th century. The material was partially suitable for the production of roofing slate.	1400 70 × 20	Type: Type of rock, type of layers : Slate	Quarry	especially valuable	Landscape protection area, nature park
Steinbruch SE von Haßlach near Teuschnitz	more pictures	476A040	Reichenbach position	Franconian Forest	In the abandoned former municipal quarry in Haßlach, an alternating storage of upper slate and upper greywacke is due. The inclined layers are e.g. T. impressively released.	2500 100 × 25	Type: Type of rock, type of layers : Grauwacke, slate	Quarry	significant	Natural park
Former Quarry in Rodachtal E from Wallenfels		476A041	Wallenfels position	Franconian Forest	Immediately next to the B 173, a Minette deposit has been developed in an abandoned quarry. Numerous tectonic peculiarities (fissures, folds / fracture structures) can be seen in the surrounding greywacke-clay slate alternation. The excavated material was used in road construction.	240 30 × 8	Type: rock type, fold / hollow / saddle type: lamprophyr, mudstone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Quarry on Schloßberg E from Nordhalben	more pictures	476A042	North half position	Franconian Forest	In the quarry, the middle alternating layers (greywacke, clay slate) as well as a quartz vein and two pointed folds are exposed. The slate layers contain trace fossils and (rarely) plant fossils.	1000 50 × 20	Type: fold / hollow / saddle, layer sequence, quarry / pit, vegetable fossils, trace fossils Type: Grauwacke, clay slate	Quarry	especially valuable	Natural park
Former Schwarzer Hengst SE quarry from Ludwigsstadt		476A043	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	In the abandoned roof slate quarry there is one of the extremely rare outcrops of Middle Devonian black slate, which occasionally leads to pyrite nests (gravel calves). The mostly vertical mining joints are hand-cut. In the back there is a small waterfall.	2400 80 × 30	Type: Layer sequence, quarry / pit Type: Slate	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Quarry N of Förtschendorf	more pictures	476A044	Pressy position	Franconian Forest	In the abandoned quarry, fine-grained Grauwacken from the Upper Teuschnitz strata were mined. In addition to calcite and quartz, millimeter-sized dolomite, pyrite and copper gravel crystals can be found in numerous corridors. The greywacke occasionally contains charred plant chaff.	160000 400 × 400	Type: Rock, Vegetable Fossils, Layer Sequence Type: Greywacke	Quarry	precious	Natural park
Former Ocher limestone quarry NE of Ludwigsstadt		476A045	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	Silurian ocher limestone was mined in the abandoned quarry. There are plenty of crinoid stalk limbs.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Rock, Animal Fossils Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Road outcrop E from Nordhalben		476A046	North half position	Franconian Forest	On the more than 100 m long road embankment at KC 23 there is a very good exposure of the middle alternating layers (border slate and fine-grained greywacke) of the Thuringian facies of the Franconian Forest Lower Carbons. Trace fossils (nereites) can occasionally be found in the slate, which sometimes falls almost vertically. Impressive wrinkles can sometimes be observed.	750 150 × 5	Type: Layer sequence, trace fossils, fold / hollow / saddle Type: Grauwacke, clay slate	embankment	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Slate quarry at Winterberg SE in Ludwigsstadt		476A047	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	In the so-called French quarry on Lower Devonian slate, tentaculite slate and Nereite quartzite are exposed. Furthermore, the Richter conglomerate is pending in less thickness. The schists contain abundant fossils (tentaculites).	10000 100 × 100	Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers, trace fossils Type: Slate, quartzite, conglomerate	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Stockheim coal seam W from Stockheim	more pictures	476G003	Stockheim position	Franconian Forest	By digging in 2005, two tunnel mouth holes of the former Adam-Friedrich-Grube coal mine were exposed again on the site of the building yard. A coal seam up to 70 cm thick can be seen in the outcrop wall with its reddish greywacke. The geotope is one of Bavaria's hundred most beautiful geotopes and is explained on site with a corresponding information board.	75 15 × 5	Type: tunnel, layer sequence, vegetable fossils Type: coal, greywacke	Schurf	especially valuable	Natural park	Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 67
Aufgel. Wetzschieferbruch Bärenbrunn N von Lauenstein	more pictures	476G005	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	In several small open-cast mines and partly underground, so-called whet slate may have been extracted from the Middle Ages until around 1945. Some of them were exported to Poland, England and Scandinavia.	45 15 × 3	Type: tunnel, rock type, layer sequence type: quartzite	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Rock foundations of the Bamberg Gate in Kronach	more pictures	476R001	Kronach position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The appealing outcrop shows sandstones of the Upper Buntsandstein (Franconian Chirotherienhorizont) with large sloping bodies below the Bamberg Gate.	10 5 × 2	Type: rock wall / slope, rock type: sandstone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Natural park
Teufelsgraben S from Hummenberg		476R002	Küps position	Obermain-Bruchschollenland	The Teufelsgraben is an impressive gorge in the Rhaet, here the recent erosion can be studied.	2000 200 × 10	Type: Canyon Type: Sandstone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Cliffs at the former Falkenstein train station		476R003	Ludwigsstadt position	Franconian Forest	At the former Falkenstein station, Ordovician layers (phycode slate and quartzite of the Thuringian facies series) are exposed. A fold structure tipping over to the southeast is very clearly recognizable.	250 50 × 5	Type: Layer sequence, fold / hollow / saddle Type: Quartzite, clay stone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park