List of geotopes in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen

This list contains the geotopes of the Upper Bavarian district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen 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
Former quarry N von Laisacker	more pictures	185A001	Neuburg on the Danube position	Southern Franconian Alb	The former quarry opens up a coral reef of the Malm Zeta 2–3 with transition to fossil-rich reef rubble banks.	15000 150 × 100	Type: Sedimentary structures Type: Limestone	Quarry	especially valuable	Natural monument, nature park
Finkenstein NW of the Bittenbrunn Danube barrier		185A002	Neuburg on the Danube position	Southern Franconian Alb	The rocky slope in the area of the Steppberg-Neuburger-Talenge, a breakthrough of the Danube through the Franconian Jura, uniquely opens up the most recent layers of the Malm in Bavaria: Zeta 5 (Rennertshofer layers), followed by the Neuburg bank limestone (Malm Zeta 6) . At the same time, the Neuburg Danube breakthrough is an important witness to the recent major river shifts in Bavaria.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	especially valuable	Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area
Former quarry at Unterhausen train station		185A003	Oberhausen position	Southern Franconian Alb	The profile shows the type locality of the Unterhausen and Oberhausen layers (Neuburg Bankkalke, Malm Zeta 6). These are the youngest preserved layers of the Malm in the Franconian Alb. The outcrop is rich in fossils, which already show an increasing influence of freshwater during sedimentation.	12000 400 × 30	Type: Standard / Reference Profile, Animal Fossils, Layer Sequence Type: Limestone	Quarry	especially valuable	Natural monument
Rock slope in Bertoldsheim		185A004	Rennertshofen position	Donauried	The reef limestone of the upper Malm is well exposed above the local road.	800 40 × 20	Type: Rock Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, nature park
Outcrop N from Störzelmühle		185A005	Rennertshofen position	Riesalb	One of the few outcrops of the Malm Zeta 4. The Usseltalschists merge with the Rennertshofen strata upwards into the limestone.	500 50 × 10	Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone	Quarry	especially valuable	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Sand pit SE von Rohrenfels		185A006	Rohrenfels position	Donaumoos	In the fine sands of the Upper Freshwater Molasse, thin sandstone banks with remains of flora and seeds as well as leaf prints have been preserved. There are only small residual outcrops.	2500 50 × 50	Type: Vegetable Fossils Type: Sand, Sandstone	Gravel pit / sand pit	significant	Natural monument
Former Quarry NW of Bertoldsheim		185A007	Rennertshofen position	Riesalb	In the quarry, 12 m of the lower Rennertshofen layers are exposed. There is still a lime kiln in the former quarry.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Standard / Reference Profile, Animal Fossils, Layer Sequence, Lime Kiln Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Ceiling ballast outcrop NE from Wengen		185A008	Burgheim position	Iller-Lech region	The profile shows a conglomerate of sandy gravel. This belongs to the terrace of the lower deck ballast in the Aindlinger terrace stairs.	500 50 × 10	Type: Layer sequence, terrace Type: Conglomerate, gravel	Quarry	precious	no protected area
Former quarry W von Hütting		185A009	Rennertshofen position	Riesalb	Only the rear outcrop wall of the large dolomite quarry has been preserved.	50000 250 × 200	Type: Rock Type: Dolomite Stone	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park, FFH area
Former quarry N of walls		185A010	Rennertshofen position	Southern Franconian Alb	The former quarry opens up reef dolomite from the uppermost Malm (Malm Zeta 3–5).	3000 100 × 30	Type: Rock Type: Dolomite Stone	Quarry	inferior	Landscape protection area, nature park, FFH area
Former chalk quarrying W von Neuburg		185A011	Neuburg on the Danube position	Southern Franconian Alb	Relatively large outcrops of pending Cretaceous sands on the edge of the former mining site.	3000 150 × 20	Type: Rock Type: Sand	Gravel pit / sand pit	significant	Landscape protection area, FFH area
Former silica mining N of Riedensheim		185A012	Neuburg on the Danube position	Southern Franconian Alb	At the edge of the former silica mining, a small part of the mining wall was kept open. The bending of the limestone layers on the edge of the former deposit can be clearly seen.	75 15 × 5	Type: Flexur Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Quarry W of Neuburg		185A013	Oberhausen position	Southern Franconian Alb	Slightly discordant marl-like limestone banks of the Malm Zeta 4 lie above the reef rubble limestone of the Malm Zeta 3.	150 30 × 5	Type: Layer sequence, discordance Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, FFH area
Former quarry N von Unterhausen		185A014	Oberhausen position	Southern Franconian Alb	The former quarry still has large residual outcrops in the Neuburg bank limestone. A sequence of slab of limestone is exposed, with individual marl layers and individual thick limestone banks in between.	150 30 × 5	Type: Rock Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area
Strudel hole on Antonienberg S by Stepperg		185H001	Rennertshofen position	Southern Franconian Alb	The Strudelloch is a half-cave in the bulging slope of the Danube, which offers good access here.	100 50 × 2	Type: karst halfway / natural bridge, impact slope, rock type: limestone	cave	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area
Grotto below the Arco-Schlößchen N von Neuburg	more pictures	185H002	Neuburg on the Danube position	Donaumoos	Partly dolomitized banked reef rubble limestone build the impact slope with the half cave on the Danube bank.	200 10 × 20	Type: Shore / surf cave , impact slope, rock type: Limestone	cave	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, bird sanctuary
Vineyard caves NW of walls	more pictures	185H003	Rennertshofen position	Southern Franconian Alb	The level cave system consists of 5 spacious individual caves that have repeatedly served people as living quarters. Many prehistoric and early historical bone finds as well as artifacts of the Neanderthals and finds from the Neolithic and the Bronze Hallstadt period attest to this.	2420 121 × 20	Type: Karst horizontal cave Type: Dolomite stone	cave	precious	Nature reserve, landscape protection area
Wellheimer dry valley (southern part)	more pictures	185R001	Rennertshofen position	Southern Franconian Alb	The Danube flowed through the Wellheim dry valley from the Pleistocene to the Rift Ice Age. The valley is famous for its dry heaths interspersed with dolomite rocks.	5000000 5000 × 1000	Type: dry valley, breakthrough valley, impact slope Type: gravel, dolomite stone	no information	especially valuable	Landscape protection area, nature park
Dunes NW of Gröbern		185R002	Waidhofen position	Danube-Isar hill country	Elongated, morphologically quite distinctive dunes. These are late to post-glacial drifting sand drifts that stand out from their surroundings as a steep chain of hills.	120000 800 × 150	Type: Dune field Type: Sand	no information	precious	no protected area
Dune N of Waidhofen		185R003	Waidhofen position	Danube-Isar hill country	Relatively large drifting sand dune, which is partly overgrown with the typical local pine forest.	15000 150 × 100	Type: Dune Type: Sand	no information	significant	Natural monument
Terrace E by Illdorf		185R004	Burgheim position	Iller-Lech region	The very eye-catching terrace east of Illdorf consists of lower gravel and is a step of the Aindlinger terrace staircase.	25000 500 × 50	Type: Terrace Type: Gravel, Conglomerate	no information	precious	Nature reserve
Terrace near Eschling		185R005	Burgheim position	Iller-Lech region	The Eschlinger terrace consists of lower gravel and is a step of the Aindlinger terrace stairs.	20000 500 × 40	Type: Terrace Type: amphibolite, conglomerate	no information	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area
Relic stones at St. Willibald's Chapel W von Attenfeld		185R006	Bergheim position	Southern Franconian Alb	The blocks are made of Cretaceous sandstone. According to legend, the water from the round holes in the blocks is said to heal eye diseases and never to dry out.	6 3 × 2	Type: Relic Rock, Boulder Type: Sandstone	block	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Limestone block near Karlshuld		185R007	Karlshuld position	Donaumoos	The round block of Malm mass limestone comes from the gravel pits in the Wurm Ice Age gravel near Nazibühl. The former natural monument is now in front of the Karlshuld Danube Museum. It is possibly a relic of the Tertiary ejection masses of the meteorite impact in the Ries that was exposed by erosion.	1 1 × 1	Type: Boulder Type: Limestone	block	significant	no protected area
Quartzite blocks NW of walls		185R008	Rennertshofen position	Southern Franconian Alb	Several smaller blocks testify to the former distribution of Cretaceous sandstone.	1 1 × 1	Type: Relic Rocks Type: Blocks	block	significant	Landscape protection area, FFH area
Rabenfels NE from Hütting		185R009	Rennertshofen position	Southern Franconian Alb	Striking rock formation in the younger reef dolomites of the Upper Malms on the slope of the Wellheim dry valley.	800 80 × 10	Type: Rock Tower / Needle Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	FFH area, landscape protection area
Castle rocks in Hütting	more pictures	185R010	Rennertshofen position	Riesalb	The relic of a castle wall is still preserved on the rock.	2000 100 × 20	Type: rock castle, layer sequence type: dolomite stone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	FFH area, bird sanctuary, nature park
Dune near Sandhof		185R011	Schrobenhausen position	Danube-Isar hill country	Small, but relatively striking dune in the Paartal. Somewhat impaired at the edge by some smaller old mining sites.	200 20 × 10	Type: Dune Type: Sand	no information	significant	no protected area
Dunes in the Hagenauer Forst SE by Sandizell		185R012	Schrobenhausen position	Danube-Isar hill country	Particularly long and particularly striking dunes.	300000 3000 × 100	Type: Dune field Type: Sand	no information	significant	no protected area