List of geotopes in the district of Lindau (Lake Constance)

This list contains the geotopes of the Swabian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) 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
Prallhang Hohe Wand WNW from Gestratz		776A001	Röthenbach position	Rhine young moraine region	Sandy marlstones and sandstones of the Upper Freshwater Molasse are exposed on the high slope of the Upper Argen. They are overlaid by solidified crack-age gravel on which unsolidified Würm-age advancing gravel lie. Snails and vertebrate remains were recovered from the marl layer just above the water level of the Argen. These are land-dwelling species, so it can be concluded that the marl was deposited as sludge during floods.	450 45 × 10	Type: Animal fossils, layer sequence Type: Marlstone, sandstone, crushed stone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	FFH area
Outcrops in the Ellhofer Tobel NE from Simmerberg		776A002	Weiler-Simmerberg position	Rhine young moraine region	In the ravine, a classic profile of the Upper Marine Molasse is exposed with a wide range of fossil sites.	30000 1000 × 30	Type: Standard / Reference Profile, Animal Fossils, Canyon Type: Sandstone, Conglomerate	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	FFH area
Ringenberg crack gravel WSW		776A003	Maierhöfen position	Rhine young moraine region	At an altitude of 810 m there are solidified conglomerates (Nagelfluh) which, due to their geological position and their porosity, cannot belong in the molasses. It is former meltwater gravel. Since gravel from the Würm Age has not (yet) solidified into Nagelfluh, it must be from an earlier Ice Age. The meltwater gravel filled the valley. This shows how much higher the land surface must have been in pre-worm times than it is today. The old mining has been renatured. The dismantling walls were preserved.	1500 50 × 30	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate	Gravel pit / sand pit	significant	no protected area
Moraine sediments in the Bösenreutiner Tobel NE of Lindau		776A004	Sigmarszell position	Rhine young moraine region	The Bösenreutiner Tobel can be reached both from the south through the Dornier plant and via hiking trails and paths from Bösenreutin and Tobel. It is particularly scenic in its northern, unspoilt part. The ravine is deepened in moraine sediments and meltwater gravel, but these are poorly exposed as loose rocks on the way or difficult to reach in the steeper side ditches. Under a lattice staircase near the bridge west of Tobel, a rift moraine is cut in the steep stream bed of a side ditch. Badly sorted gravel and boulders are embedded in the silt and sandy layers are turned on. Above is a bank of solidified meltwater gravel (Nagelfluh), which forms a small waterfall step.	90000 1500 × 60	Type: rock type, ravine type: silt, gravel, sand	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	significant	no protected area
Austernnagelfluh on the B 308 between Weiler and Oberreute		776A005	Weiler-Simmerberg position	Rhine young moraine region	From the parking lot in the direction of Weiler on the B 308 northwest of Oberreute, two small and somewhat overgrown excavation pits can be reached 80 m up the slope. The Nagelfluh of the Upper Sea Molasse, which is in a few places and is weathered, shows abundant remains of oyster shells. The bank of Austernnagelfluh pulls up on the hill to the B 308. Do not walk there, so as not to endanger the traffic by falling rocks!	1500 100 × 15	Type: Rock, Quarry / Pit Type: Conglomerate	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Old Pleistocene Nagelfluh 400 m SSE Schweinburg		776A006	Gestratz position	Rhine young moraine region	In a former quarry there are solidified gravel on the Nagelfluh. They are at an altitude of 845 m above sea level. NN and are probably günzzeitlich. The gravel of the pig castle is seen as relics of the earlier gravel landscape. It is believed that they were deposited fluviatil in valleys on the mountain edge. Subglacial meltwater was then used to cut a new, over-deep relief into the old gravel landscape. The Günz ceiling gravel of the eastern Rhine glacier area is derived from the Helvetic ceilings as a catchment area (beginning of the erosion of the Rhine valley up to about Sargans) and should be low in crystalline content and contain a lot of yellow limestone.	450 30 × 15	Type: Type of rock, type of layer sequence : Conglomerate	Quarry	precious	no protected area
Former healing and bathing spring in Bad Siebers		776G002	Weiler-Simmerberg position	Rhine young moraine region	The source of Bad Siebers lies in the valley floor of the Rothach and has a long history. It was mentioned as a healing and bathing spring as early as the Middle Ages. Later, according to a document from 1628 - and can be seen on a drawing by Gabriel Bucelin from 1637 - the bathing building was rebuilt, the spring was redesigned and an inn was built. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the bathroom was forgotten. A new story began for the spring in the 20th century: its water was bottled for drinking. The spring water rose below the valley filling at a fault in sandstones of the Upper Sea Molasse. The source was probably re-drilled. The old fountain house has been converted into a museum. Today mineral water is extracted from a newly drilled well and bottled in hamlets.	16 4 × 4	Type: Drilling, Mineral Spring Type: Sandstone	no information	precious	no protected area
Molasse profile Eistobel ENE from Grünenbach	more pictures	776R001	Maierhöfen position	Rhine young moraine region	In the epigenetic breakthrough valley of the Upper Argen, the full profile from the Lower Freshwater Molasse to the Upper Sea Molasse and the Upper Freshwater Molasse is revealed. The collapse of the layers increases from N to S (dragged south edge of the foreland molasse). Numerous waterfall steps and cascades have formed on conglomerate banks that run across the river. Marls are also very well exposed on the steep slopes.	240000 2000 × 120	Type: gorge, standard / reference profile, fold / trough / saddle, scour, waterfall Type: conglomerate, sandstone, marl	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	especially valuable	Nature reserve, FFH area	Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 48
Findling E from Lindenberg	more pictures	776R002	Lindenberg in the Allgäu position	Rhine young moraine region	Today only a small part of the boulder is preserved, as it was formerly used as a quarry. Its total volume is estimated at 3,000-4,000 cubic meters. This makes it the largest boulder in the northern foothills of the Alps transported through long-distance glaciers. It probably comes from the Three Sisters near Vaduz at an altitude of approx. 1500 to 2000 m. It was probably transported on the Rotach ice tongue of the Rhine glacier around 20,000 years ago.	1500 50 × 30	Type: Boulder, Quarry / Pit Type: Limestone	block	especially valuable	Natural monument
Toteisloch NW from Vogelsang		776R003	Röthenbach (Allgäu) position	Rhine young moraine region	About the formation of the dead ice hole: ice blocks loosened at the edge of the Rotach glacier tongue were covered with gravel and moraine material. The deep thawing caused the surface layers to sag and the steep-edged hollow shape was created.	9600 120 × 80	Type: Dead Ice Hole Type: Moraine	no information	significant	no protected area
Wall moraine near Buflingsried	more pictures	776R004	Scheidegg position	Rhine young moraine region	The double moraine wall of the Rhine Glacier was deposited here in the late high glacial period (retreat stage).	150,000 600 × 250	Type: End (wall) moraine Type: Moraine	no information	significant	no protected area
Glacier pot NE of Scheffau	more pictures	776R005	Scheidegg position	Rhine young moraine region	Rubble-laden meltwater, which fell to the bottom in crevasses, cut this 1.4 m wide and 2.5 m deep tube into the subsoil using rotating stones.	4 2 × 2	Type: Gletschermühle, Kolk Type: Conglomerate	other information	precious	no protected area
Boulder in Lindau / Hochbuch		776R006	Lindau position	Rhine young moraine region	The angular gneiss boulder was deposited here by the Rhine Glacier in the late glacial.	15 5 × 3	Type: Boulder Type: Gneiss	block	significant	no protected area
Scheidegger waterfalls NW of Scheidegg	more pictures	776R007	Scheidegg position	Rhine young moraine region	Three large falls (max. 22 m high) tumble over layers of coarse conglomerate of the Upper Freshwater Molasse. Scuttles and whirlpool holes form in firmer layers of marl and sandstone.	500 50 × 10	Type: waterfall, layer sequence type: conglomerate, sandstone, marlstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area	Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 24
Kesselbachtobel S from Scheffau		776R008	Scheidegg position	Rhine young moraine region	The Kesselbachtobel opens up an extensive molasse profile in the area of the erect molasses (lower fresh water molasses, upper sea molasses and upper fresh water molasses). The steep-walled Kerbtal has gorge-like sections, small waterfalls tumble over the layers.	150000 2500 × 60	Type: gorge, layer sequence, animal fossils Type: sandstone, conglomerate, marlstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Enschenstein SW from Untertrogen		776R009	Weiler-Simmerberg position	Rhine young moraine region	The exposed conglomerates can be classified in the Upper Sea Molasse due to the occurrence of oysters. The conglomerate bank that plunges down into the valley forms a stratification below which large rocks fall.	1200 400 × 3	Type: Layer level, rock wall / slope, rock fall, rock type, animal fossils Type: conglomerate, marlstone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	legally protected biotope
Drumlinfeld SW of Oberreitnau		776R010	Lindau position	Rhine young moraine region	In the north of Lindau there is a drumlin field several square kilometers in size, formed by the Rhine glacier north of Lake Constance. Especially around Ober- and Unterreitnau there are numerous drumlins that are particularly scenic.	100000000 10000 × 10000	Type: Drumlin- / G.moränenfeld Type: Moraine	no information	precious	no protected area
Hausbachklamm S from Weiler		776R012	Weiler-Simmerberg position	Rhine young moraine region	The Hausbachklamm can be reached in a steep descent from Weiler or from the parking lot on the Alpine Road. Green-gray sandstones and conglomerates of the Upper Sea Molasse (OMM) form the gorge walls and steps in the bed of the Tobelbach. In places, pits are ground out. The western ravine slope is characterized by extensive landslides with smaller rock falls. Undercutting of the foot of the slope by the Hausbach still leads to active crawling and sliding movements with compression bulges in the slopes. The landslides in turn deliver debris into the Hausbach. Sloping and saber growth show the slope movements on the tree population. The landslides are mapped as geo-risks in the GeoFachdatenAtlas Bavaria.	200000 1000 × 200	Type: Klamm, layer sequence Type: sandstone, conglomerate	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area