List of geotopes in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab

This list contains the geotopes of the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab 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
Outcrop on the Schlossberg near Weihersberg		374A004	Trabitz position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	Arcoses (sandstones with quartz and feldspar) with well-developed oblique and cross stratifications as well as clayey intermediate layers are open here. A horizon with reclaimed dark red claystone shards (resedimentation) is particularly noticeable. Although the sandstone wall is quite overgrown, there are still very good outcrop conditions in places showing different sedimentary structures.	100 10 × 10	Type: Rock type, Sedimentary structures Type: Sandstone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Former mine Wilma N von Wendersreuth		374A005	Kirchendemenreuth position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The mining area is largely filled with water, so that the outcrops on the bank walls are almost inaccessible. The spoil heaps of the former opencast mine on Meta-Pegmatit are overgrown. Only a few stones rich in garnet and muscovite show the stone.	6375 85 × 75	Type: Rock Type: Pegmatite	other information	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former quarry S von Rotzenmühle		374A006	Püchersreuth position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	Dark, medium-grain biotite-rich Redwitzites were mined here. The bottom of the former quarry is filled with water. There are broken blocks in the area, e.g. Some of the heaps can also be found.	5000 100 × 50	Type: Rock Type: Diorite	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Quarry on the bridging tendrils NE of Flossenbürg		374A007	Flossenbürg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The former quarry shows the characteristics of the Flossenbürger granite. In the vicinity are natural rocky areas that are protected as natural monuments. There is a block flow on the southern steep drop, the granites show wool sack weathering.	450 30 × 15	Type: Rock Type: Granite	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Quarry at Wurmstein N of Flossenbürg		374A008	Flossenbürg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the large quarry, blue-gray, medium to coarse-grained two-mica granite is extracted. Fissures and banks are formed in the granite in such a way that large blocks can be extracted. In the Wurmstein quarry, prisoners from the Flossenbürg concentration camp had to mine granite in the 1930s and 1940s, which was used in prestigious National Socialist projects (e.g. Nuremberg Rally Grounds). A wall on the south-western boundary of the quarry has since been left untouched. At the upper end of this prisoner wall, a viewing platform now provides a view of the active quarry. Display boards provide information about the former forced labor. The viewing platform (location of the geotope point) can be reached from the parking lot on Schlossberg via the Wurmsteinweg. The active part of the quarry can be reached from the parking lot via Rumpelbachstraße. This crosses the quarry as a marked hiking trail. Please do not leave the path and, if necessary, observe warning notices!	12000 200 × 60	Type: Rock Type , Minerals Type: Granite	Quarry	precious	Natural park
Schlossberg Flossenbürg	more pictures	374A009	Flossenbürg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The famous Flossenbürg castle ruins are laid out on a granite rocky hill. At the foot there are disused quarries in the Flossenbürger granite, which are filled with water in the sole area. The medium to coarse-grained two-mica granite shows pronounced onion-peeled secretions (separation surface structure - visible especially from the northwest side). The ruin can be reached from the village via a well-developed footpath. Very good vantage point.	160000 400 × 400	Type: type locality, wool sack formation, hardness, rocky dome Type: granite	Slope crack / rock wall	especially valuable	Nature reserve, nature park	Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 73
Former quarry SW of Theisseil	more pictures	374A010	Theisseil position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	Permian quartz porphyry is exposed in the quarry. Although the quarry is almost overgrown, a wall is easily accessible. There and in reading stones, the porphyry structure with mm-large quartz and feldspar crystals in a fine-grained, light yellowish to reddish base can be seen. Large blocks of quartz porphyry can also be found at the parking lot (from there access to the quarry). The quartz porphyry here belongs to a swarm of dikes that breaks through the gneisses.	30000 300 × 100	Type: Rock Type: Rhyolite	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Schlossberg in Waldau	more pictures	374A012	Vohenstrauss position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	Waldau Castle is built on serpentinite rocks. The bronzite-leading hardling's back is only exposed in a few places around the castle. The outcrops are largely overgrown.	6 3 × 2	Type: rock type, hard rock type: serpentinite	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, nature park
Former quarry W von Waldau		374A013	Vohenstrauss position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the now abandoned quarry, light, coarse-grained granites of the Leuchtenberg granite massif were mined. The granites show excellent fissures and banks. Although parts of the quarry are now occupied by a lake, the rock can be seen well through the many large granite blocks piled up on the dump.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Rock Type: Granite	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Kreuzberg in Pleystein	more pictures	374A015	Pleysteine position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The Kreuzberg Pleystein, a 30 m high quartz rock, is the quartz core of a pegmatite. The central quartz mass is surrounded by aplite, which carries many phosphate minerals. Unweathered material with a crystal cellar came to light through a rock fall in the 1970s. Pegmatites are rocks that are characterized by their large to giant-grain crystals. They arise from remnants of igneous melts, which contain a lot of water and usually high concentrations of rare elements.	28000 200 × 140	Type: minerals, hard rock, rock type: pegmatite	Rock slope / cliff	especially valuable	Natural monument, nature park	Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 36
Leo Maduschka rock in the Zottbachtal NW of Hagenmühle		374A017	Pleysteine position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The Leo Maduschka rock is a striking rock group made of gneiss on the edge of the Zottbach valley, on which the typical crinkled gneiss structures with the embedded quartz knuckles are exposed. The rock is named after a former mayor of Pleystein, who was the uncle of the famous mountaineer and scientist Dr. Leo Maduschka was.	2500 50 × 50	Type: Type of rock, rock wall / slope Type: Gneiss	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Gsteinach rock group NW of Pleystein		374A018	Pleysteine position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The Gsteinach rock group is a rock ensemble made of gneiss with calcium silicate rock deposits. The formerly heavily overgrown rocks are currently (as of 2005) largely free from trees and easily accessible.	60 10 × 6	Type: Rock Type: Biotite, Gneiss	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, nature park
Big stone on the Vorderberg N of Miesbrunn		374A019	Pleysteine position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The 10 m high, steeply rising gneiss rock represents the last exposed remnant of the gneiss roof over the southernmost break of the Flossenbürger granite. It is an intensely folded gneiss, z. T. is traversed by coarse-grained aplit passages. At the foot of the rock, a sharply drawn contact with the pegmatic salband of the underlying medium-grain granite of the edge facies of the Flossenbürger granite is visible. The outcrop is overgrown.	90 15 × 6	Type: Contact, Minerals, Rock Type: Gneiss, Granite	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Former quartz quarrying W from Riedlhof		374A020	Eslarn position	Upper Upper Palatinate Forest	A mighty quartz dike runs along west of Riedlhof with a NW-SE direction. Such tunnels, known as secondary piles, made of milky, cloudy, mostly tectonically heavily stressed and shattered quartz, occur more often in the region and mark shear zones. The quartz was mined here: collapsed pits in the forest show the former mining area. At the edge of the forest there are several quartz blocks, where the rock can be seen clearly.	36 6 × 6	Type: Rock Type: Vein quartz	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Outcrops at the Kainzmühlsperre ENE von Kleßberg		374A022	Leuchtenberg position	Naab Mountains	At the stairs to the dam wall as well as on the way around the reservoir, so-called Fibrolite gneiss (= sillimanite gneiss) are exposed. The light-colored gneisses sporadically contain centimeter-sized almond-shaped sillimanite (= Fibrolite) nodes. Cordierite-sillimanite-gneisses also occur, which usually show a clear layered structure. The rock is usually not easy to see in the outcrops because of the heavy vegetation.	2500 50 × 50	Type: Rock Type: Gneiss	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former quarry W von Leuchtenberg		374A023	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the former quarry, a small to medium-grain edge facies of the Leuchtenberg granite massif is exposed. The main components of a granite are the minerals quartz, feldspar and mica. Petrographic examinations showed that the granite here also contains garnet, occasionally sillimanite and other accompanying minerals. Obviously, when the granite stock was formed, adjacent rock was melted and integrated into the melt. The outcrop has since grown significantly.	1200 20 × 60	Type: Rock Type , Minerals Type: Granite	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Boulder near Steinach		374A024	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	At the entrance to Steinach you will find a boulder that belongs to the Cordiert-Sillimanit-Andalusit-Hornfelse group. It is the remainder of a rock that was once more widespread here, which was broken down into gravel. The Gneishornfels comes from the innermost zone of the contact area of the gneisses with the Leuchtenberg granite. The gneiss was significantly transformed through contact with the silicate melt of the granite pluton - among other things, red garnets grew, which can be seen with the naked eye.	4 2 × 2	Type: Rock Type: Amphibolite, Hornfels	block	significant	Natural park
Franzosenfelsen SE from Döllnitz		374A025	Leuchtenberg position	Naab Mountains	The steep slope on the Pfreimdufer is interspersed with several rock exposures. Moldanubian gneisses with partly thick quartz knuckles or quartz layers are open.	500 100 × 5	Type: Type of rock, rock wall / slope Type: Gneiss	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Rocks Räuberhöhle NW of Linglmühle		374A026	Vohenstrauss position	Naab Mountains	The Moldanubian gneiss has thick quartz knuckles and layers. The name Räuberhöhle comes from a small cave created by a fracture and excavation. The cavity actually pulls a bit under the rock.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Rock type, rock wall / slope, fissure / tectonic cave Type: Gneiss	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Former quarry northwest of Leuchtenberg		374A027	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	Coarse-grained Leuchtenberg granite is exposed in the former quarry. The low-detachable two-mica granite contains grenades up to 1 mm in size. Since the quarry is now filled with water, the outcrop wall is no longer accessible.	1500 50 × 30	Type: Rock Type: Granite	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Road embankment NE of Unterleif		374A030	Vohenstrauss position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	On the road between Roggenstein and Kaimling, amphibolite is open to the embankment directly opposite the intersection of the Unterleif road.	125 25 × 5	Type: Rock Type: Amphibolite	embankment	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Sand pit N of Pirkerziegelhütte		374A032	Pirk position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	In the former sand pit, sands of the Rotliegend (Permian) sediments are exposed with sedimentary structures. Although the sediments are more widespread in the district and were previously extracted in some pits (there are several abandoned pits in the area), there are virtually no permanent outcrops. Therefore this outcrop, although largely overgrown and collapsed, is an important geotope, as it still allows an insight into the rock.	1500 50 × 30	Type: Rock type, Sedimentary structures Type: Sandstone	Gravel pit / sand pit	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former quarry near Oberschleif		374A033	Vohenstrauss position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the former quarry, Leuchtenberger granite is exposed with a narrow aplit passage. The Leuchtenberger granite is designed here as a typical crystal granite. In the uniform-grain granite base (medium-coarse-grained), large individual potassium feldspar crystals float, which can be seen in the cut as whitish fingers. Such granite is called porphyry.	200 20 × 10	Type: Rock Type: Granite	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Corneliaschacht (Pegmatit Hagendorf-Süd)		374A034	Waidhaus position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The pit of the former feldspar and pegmatite mining is now flooded and no longer accessible. There is no more information. Today's bird sanctuary belongs to the Bund Naturschutz. The Hagendorf-Süd phosphate pegmatite was discovered in 1894 and has since been mined until it was closed in 1983. Hagendorf is (was) a world-famous mineral discovery site and type locality for more than 10 minerals. However, many of the minerals occurring there can only be detected microscopically.	40000 200 × 200	Type: Type locality, Minerals, Quarry / Pit Type: Pegmatite	Quarry	precious	Natural park
Road exposure ENE Döllnitz		374A036	Pressath position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	On the northern embankment of the road Keuper sediments are cut over a length of about 40 m. A small section of the bubble sandstone with lettuce layers is open: over a mostly deep red colored clay and siltstone horizon follows a light bank of weakly bound arkose sand (rounded quartz grains, but also feldspar grains (partly kaolinized) and rock fragments) with rapidly changing grain size. There are sloping layers in the bank.	120 40 × 3	Type: Rock Type: Sandstone, siltstone, mudstone	embankment	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Felsenkeller in Neustadt am Kulm		374A037	Neustadt am Kulm position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	On the eastern edge of Neustadt am Kulm, several rock cellars have been cut into the steep step of the Lower Burgsandstein (Löwenstein Formation). One of the cellars on Sandbergweg has been made accessible to visitors and has been provided with lighting. While the walls in the front area are partially lined, in the rear area the rock forms ceilings and walls. In this sandstone, which also contains pebbles, various sedimentary structures (such as sloping layers, etc.) can be seen.	600 40 × 15	Type: Type of rock, sedimentary structures, rock cellar Type: Sandstone	Rock cellar	precious	Natural park
Street outcrop SW of Störnstein		374A038	Störnstein position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	On the northern embankment of the road, muscovite-biotite-gneisses are cut on the slope. The paragneiss belong to the tectonic unit of the Erbendorf-Vohenstrauss zone. In the outcrop (albeit behind the wire mesh), various structural structures of metamorphic rocks can be clearly seen: including folds and folds, foliation, separation of dark and light layers (noticeable banding), quartz furniture.	225 75 × 3	Type: Rock type, metamorphic structure Type: Biotite, gneiss	embankment	precious	Natural park
Clay pit NW of Barbaraberg		374A039	Super tough position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	In the clay pit Barbaraberg, clay stones of the estheria layers are still mined to a small extent. Often, thin layers of sandstone are integrated into the claystones. The upper bottom of the pit is formed by such a layer. Due to the extensive exposure situation, sediment structures (fossil mud flats) are particularly easy to see.	7500 150 × 50	Type: sedimentary structures, trace fossils Type: sandstone, mudstone	Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit	precious	Natural park
Orthogneiss outcrop in the Luhetal NE of Michldorf		374A040	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	On a steep slope on the Luhe there is a larger natural outcrop of orthogneiss. The coarse-grained and porphyry rock contains up to 5 cm long potash feldspars. This type of rock forms an occurrence more than 1 km long and 150 m wide, which is almost entirely covered by reading stones. The geotope represents the only major outcrop in this gneiss.	500 50 × 10	Type: Rock type, rock group Type: Gneiss	Rock slope / cliff	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Felsenkeller in Parkstein	more pictures	374A041	Park stone position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	The historic rock cellars provide a good insight into the chimney breccia and thus into the interior of the Parkstein volcano. Blocks of mostly lighter stone inclusions up to several meters in size are stuck in the dark rocks, which testify to the power of the volcanic explosions. The inclusions are on the one hand sandstones and clays but also coarse conglomerates (made of gravel and rubble) and also basaltic chunks of various sizes. The cellars were created as storage cellars for food and beer. The Parkstein market has renovated the rock cellars and made them accessible again.	60 20 × 3	Type: Rock type, Igneous structure Type: Tuff / Tuffite	Rock cellar	precious	Natural park
Felsenkeller in Luhe		374A042	Luhe-Wildenau position	Naab Mountains	There are several historic rock cellars on the western flank of the Koppelberg in Luhe. In the cellar no. 7 there is an approx. 1.5 m thick shear zone with cataclasite in the red Naab granite.	60 20 × 3	Type: rock cellar Type: cataclasite, granite	Rock cellar	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Gertrud NE von Obersdorf mine		374G001	Kirchendemenreuth position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The walled up gallery of the former underground mine on Meta-Pegmatite is said to be well preserved. Evidence can be found on heaps on the mine site. In the trench where the tunnel starts, pegmatitic rock with large muscovite crystals (light mica) is exposed on the wall.	50 10 × 5	Type: Gallery Type: pegmatite, gneiss	Tunnel / gallery / shaft	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Hagendorf-Nord pegmatite pit (Meixner pit)		374G002	Waidhaus position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The Hagendorf-Nord pegmatite stock was developed in 1860. Until the turn of the century, feldspar was extracted in open-cast mining, after which civil engineering and tunnel operations were carried out. Before the mine was closed in 1937, around 220,000 t of feldspar had been extracted. The pit was also known as a mineral discovery site. Many phosphate minerals were found in the edge area of the pegmatite. For phosphophyllite, the pit is probably the type locality. Today the pit is almost overgrown and difficult to visit.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Opencast mining, minerals, type locality, rock type: pegmatite	Open pit	significant	Natural park
Gold soap factory S in Gaisheim		374G003	Moosbach position	Upper Upper Palatinate Forest	The restless relief along the stream is evidence of late medieval gold panning. Small gold flakes were washed out of the stream sediments, but the yield is likely to have been very poor. So-called mine fields with elongated trenches, pits and heaps remained as traces of this gold soap extraction.	15000 300 × 50	Type: Soap laundry, pinging field, scraping Type: gravel, sand, gneiss	no information	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Former Pegmatite mining NE from Püllersreuth-Lenkermühle		374G004	Kirchendemenreuth position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the forest about 300 meters NE of the Lenkermühle there are the remains of an above-ground (large pinge) and underground (approx. 12 m long tunnel) pegmatite mining. In the dump hills in the area (noticeably restless morphology) there is still plenty of rock with a noticeably large amount of light mica (hexagonal muscovite crystals up to several cm in diameter). During mining, beryl and columbite were found in addition to 20–30 cm mica.	400 20 × 20	Type: tunnel, dump, rock type, mineral type: pegmatite	Tunnel / gallery / shaft	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Basalt summit Rauher Kulm	more pictures	374R001	Neustadt am Kulm position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	The basalt dome of the Rauhen Kulm is made up of evenly dense nepheline basalt with inclusions of olivines and augite. Only a few outcrops can be found at the summit. The exposed periglacial basalt block sea (block dump), which is particularly widespread on the southern and eastern parts of the mountain, is very noticeable.	62500 250 × 250	Type: Boulder sea, volcanic vent, rock type: Basalt	other information	especially valuable	Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area
Little Kulm	more pictures	374R002	Neustadt am Kulm position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	The Kleine Kulm consists of a chimney breccia (a confused mixture of basaltic material and fragments of the collateral rock [mostly Keuper]). A younger basalt dike is forced through this breccia material. The basalt core of the summit was at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dismantled in the 19th century, leaving the chimney breccia standing, so that the Kleine Kulm looks like a hollow tooth today. The chimney breccia with its Keup inclusions, as well as remnants of the basalt duct, are impressively developed in the abandoned quarry behind the abandoned restaurant. A board in the Geopark explains the geological events. From the remnant of the summit of the Kleiner Kulm mine has an excellent all-round view from the Rauhen Kulm over the Bruchschollenland to the Fichtelgebirge.	1500 50 × 30	Type: volcanic vent, rock type: basalt, breccia	Quarry	precious	Natural monument
Granite rock Galgenkatherl NNE from Windisch-Eschenbach		374R003	Windischeschenbach position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The summit section of the Galgenkatherl consists of Falkenberger granite weathered by wool sacks. It forms a rocky cliff sloping to the west. The former lookout point is growing together. This place served as a place of execution for centuries.	40 8 × 5	Type: Rock Wall / Slope Type: Granite	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area
Basalt cone High park stone	more pictures	374R004	Park stone position	Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland	The formation of the Hohe Parkstein with its secondary cones is based on a 25 to 30 m wide, basalt-filled, vertical conveyor crevice. Xenolites of volcanic, intrusive and sedimentary origin can be found in the basalt. The basalt of the Parkstein shows on its steep southeast wall (formerly the quarry) the outstandingly pronounced columnar separation with spectacularly curved columns. Next to it is a so-called Schlottuff. The Parkstein is the most impressive volcanic ruin in the Upper Palatinate volcanic area. He was allegedly made by Alexander v. Humboldt calls it the most beautiful volcanic cone in Europe, although this is not documented in writing.	21000 140 × 150	Type: basalt columns, volcanic vent, type of rock Type: basalt, tuff / tuffite	Slope crack / rock wall	especially valuable	Nature reserve, FFH area, nature park	Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 20
Girnitz stream in the NSG Doost SE from Gollwitzerhof	more pictures	374R005	Raft position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the valley of the Girnitz there is an impressive sea of blocks with round granite blocks up to 5 m in diameter. Often the blocks are piled on top of each other in such a way that the stream flows underground and can only be heard. The sea of blocks bears witness to the weathering of the granite in the modern earth era. The round blocks were not created by being transported in the river, but are the result of long-lasting, intensive wool sack weathering. The weathered gravel was washed away by the stream.	2000 200 × 10	Type: Block Sea, Wool Sack Formation Type: Granite	other information	precious	Nature reserve, landscape protection area, nature park
Summit of Gügel SE von Störnstein		374R006	Störnstein position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The summit, which is accessed by steps (the view is completely overgrown), consists of Leuchtenberger granite, which is covered with wool. A part of the mountain is quarried by a hidden former quarry. Coarse-grained Störnstein granite with cm-large feldspar fragments can be seen there. Two varieties of Leuchtenberg granite are exposed: medium-grain biotite granite and coarse-grain leucocrate granite. The quarry is overgrown.	2500 50 × 50	Type: Rock Wall / Slope Type: Granite	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Granite rocks at the Rotzenbühl adventure playground near Wurz		374R007	Püchersreuth position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The play equipment is integrated into the natural rock formations of the Leuchtenberger Granit. The medium to coarse-grained granite shows wool sack weathering.	2500 50 × 50	Type: Wool Sacking Type: Granite	Rock slope / cliff	significant	Natural park
Hohler Stein SE from Pfaffenreuth		374R008	Püchersreuth position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The hollow stone is a striking group of granite blocks weathered by wool sack. It is a coarse-grained granite with large potash feldspar sprinkles. Sometimes the twinning of the crystals can also be seen.	24 6 × 4	Type: wool sack formation, rock tower / needle Type: granite	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, nature park
Granite rocks on Schleiderberg NW of Georgenberg		374R009	Georgenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	On the western slope of Schleiderberg there are several rock groups made of Flossenbürger granite. The rocks show pronounced wool sack weathering of the mattress weathering type. There are numerous blocks around the cliffs (overgrown rock dump). The place is also known as stone rubble. The rocks are difficult to reach due to the dense vegetation.	100 10 × 10	Type: Crag, wool sack formation Type: Granite	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Summit of the Schellenberg NE of Waldkirch		374R010	Georgenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The summit section of the Schellenberg consists of several rock castles made of coarse-grained Flossenbürger granite. The impressive rocks consistently show a striking weathering of wool sacks. In some cases, round rock bodies dominate (wool sacks), and sometimes flat ones (mattresses). The remains of the Lug ins Land castle ruins have been preserved on one of the cliffs. An observation tower has also been built here, which allows a good view of the Upper Palatinate Forest in the Flossenbürg area.	20000 200 × 100	Type: rock castle, wool sack formation Type: granite	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Granite rocks on the Eibelberg E from Flossenbürg		374R011	Flossenbürg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The granite cliffs on the summit of the Eibelberg, made of Flossenbürger granite, show pronounced wool sack weathering of the mattress weathering type - due to the close horizontal gaps, the rocks resemble a stack of mattresses. In the summer of 2005 the rocks could hardly be reached due to storm damage (wind break).	15625 125 × 125	Type: Rock Wall / Slope Type: Granite	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Teufelsfelsen on Hüttenberg NE of Hildweinsreuth		374R012	Flossenbürg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the summit area of the Hüttenberg there are beautiful, bizarre rock towers made of Flossenbürger granite, which show pronounced wool sack weathering.	5000 100 × 50	Type: Crag, wool sack formation Type: Granite	Rock slope / cliff	precious	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Bowl stone NE from Oberrehberg		374R013	Georgenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The granite boulder has a wool sack-like shape and shows signs of cart formation. In its surroundings there are humpback meadows on gneiss. It is probably the weathered remnant of a periglacial floating earth blanket.	12 5 × 2	Type: Boulder, Carts / Fields Type: Granite	block	precious	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Bowl stone N from Neudorf		374R014	Georgenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The round granite block serves as a boundary stone to the Czech Republic. The boulder weathered in the form of a wool sack and is covered by conspicuous pseudo-carts.	8 4 × 2	Type: Boulder, Carts / Fields Type: Granite	block	precious	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Felsturm bread loaf NE from Waldkirch		374R015	Georgenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The distinctive, single rock tower made of coarse-grained Flossenbürger granite shows clearly pronounced weathering of wool sacks. The rock is narrower at the base than at the top.	40 8 × 5	Type: Rock tower / needle, wool sack formation Type: Granite	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Devil's butter keg ENE from Burgmühle		374R016	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The devil's butter barrel is a particularly striking and impressive rock tower made of granite weathered by wool sacks. All around there are other rocks weathered by wool sacks, e.g. Sometimes with impressive sacrificial tubs created by solution weathering.	10000 100 × 100	Type: Rock tower / needle, wool sack formation Type: Granite	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Nature reserve, landscape protection area, nature park
Granite blocks of God's hands W from Sargmühle		374R017	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the forest there are several strikingly large granite blocks made of Leuchtenberg granite, which have pronounced round shapes as a result of the weathering of the wool sack. One of the boulders shows very distinctive channel-shaped depressions, which, analogous to similar structures in limestone, are referred to in some literature as granite carts or pseudo carts.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Wool Sacking Type: Granite	block	significant	Nature reserve, landscape protection area, nature park
High stone ENE from Leuchtenberg		374R018	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the area of the Hohen Stein there are other blocks in addition to a conical granite block. The blocks of coarse-grained Leuchtenberg granite all show pronounced round shapes, as they arise from the weathering of wool sacks that is typical of granite. There are other, smaller rocky areas in the immediate vicinity.	40 10 × 4	Type: Wool Sacking Type: Granite	block	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Kummerer Felsen NE by Leuchtenberg		374R019	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In a small wood there is a group of granite blocks up to 5 m in diameter, weathered by wool sack, made of coarse-grained granite.	100 10 × 10	Type: Wool Sacking Type: Granite	block	significant	Natural monument, nature park
Leuchtenberg Castle Hill		374R021	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the listed castle complex, the stone - the Leuchtenberger granite - is integrated into the building in numerous places and is clearly visible. The Leuchtenberger granite is a medium to coarse-grained granite. The entire intrusion area of the Leuchtenberg massif covers an area of approx. 70 km². The granite is usually fissured to a large extent - therefore large sacks of wool and rock towers appear in the area of distribution.	20 5 × 4	Type: rock wall / slope, type locality type: granite	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Natural park
Gneiss rock cairn NE of Döllwitz		374R022	Leuchtenberg position	Naab Mountains	The cairn or rock garden is a gneiss rock protruding from the landscape (in a small wood). Since the rock is heavily overgrown with moss and lichen, the rock cannot always be clearly recognized. In some places, however, a banding and foliation of the gneiss can be clearly seen.	36 6 × 6	Type: Ridge Type: Gneiss	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, nature park
Granite dome Heller Stein W by Steinach		374R023	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	In the summit area, the wool-sack-like light stones protrude. The rock consists of strikingly light, coarse-grained Leuchtenberg granite.	300 30 × 10	Type: rock group, wool sack formation Type: granite	Rock slope / cliff	precious	Natural monument, nature park
Granite rock Teufelspranke E from Leuchtenberg		374R024	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	There are numerous granite rocks on the steep slope, including the Teufelspranke natural monument. The rock made of coarse-grained Leuchtenberg granite weathers to the typical wool sack shape and is covered by pseodo carts.	60 10 × 6	Type: rock tower / needle, wool sack formation, carts / fields Type: granite	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Natural monument, nature park
Gneiss rocks Drei Felsen WNW von Wildstein		374R026	Tännesberg position	Naab Mountains	The Drei Felsen rock formation consists of migmatized plagioclase-biotite gneisses with large feldspars surrounded by biotite shear surfaces. A block flow connects down the slope.	10000 100 × 100	Type: rock wall / slope, block flow Type: biotite, plagioclase, gneiss	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area, nature park
Summit of the piece stone ENE from Oberlangau		374R027	Eslarn position	Upper Upper Palatinate Forest	The highest elevation of the piece of stone consists of gneiss with cm-large garnet inclusions.	200 20 × 10	Type: Ridge Type: Gneiss	Rock slope / cliff	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area
Gneiss rock Hutstein WSW from Lindauer Waldhaus		374R028	Eslarn position	Upper Upper Palatinate Forest	The shape of the gneiss floe is reminiscent of a hat. The cordierite flaser gneiss is intensely folded and has cm-large garnet fragments.	168 12 × 14	Type: Ridge Type: Cordierite, Sillimanite, Gneiss	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area
Summit of the Eulenberg NE from Friedrichshäng	more pictures	374R029	Eslarn position	Upper Upper Palatinate Forest	The gneiss cliff at the summit is protected as a natural monument. Further gneiss rocks are exposed around the summit area. There is much block rubble formed in the Pleistocene in the area.	100 20 × 5	Type: Ridge Type: Cordierite, Sillimanite, Gneiss	Rock slope / cliff	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area
Wolfslohklamm NW from Sargmühle	more pictures	374R030	Leuchtenberg position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The Leraubach is coming from the east between Lerau and its confluence with the Luhe a block-rich downhill. In parts the brook crosses a sea of blocks. The rounded granite blocks can be found there in heap. The name gorge is misleading here, as it is not a gorge, but a Kerbtal.	6000 200 × 30	Type: wool sack formation, sea of blocks Type: granite	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	significant	Nature reserve, landscape protection area, nature park
Granite rock wall in Neuhaus	more pictures	374R032	Windischeschenbach position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	On the east bank of the Waldnaab, the granite forms an approx. 15 m high exposed rock face (2005: rock face was largely free from vegetation). Coarse-grained granite with numerous feldspar large crystals is exposed. The rock is usually so badly weathered that no details can be seen, but it shows a striking late weather pattern. The rock face shows a pronounced, oriented network of fissures. The free rock heads have the rounded shapes of wool sack weathering.	400 40 × 10	Type: Rock Wall / Slope Type: Granite	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Natural park
Crawlstone WSW from Ritzlersreuth		374R033	Raft position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	A rock ensemble of granite blocks weathered by wool sack is hidden in the small wood. The former granite rock castle has collapsed in such a way that the remaining blocks between two very large blocks form a canyon-like alley that is covered by other blocks. This is how a short (creeping) tube was created. The blocks consist of coarse-grained Leuchtenberg granite with striking large potassium feldspar crystals.	48 8 × 6	Type: Wool Sacking Type: Granite	block	significant	Nature reserve, natural monument, landscape protection area
Serpentinite Hill N by Hardt		374R034	Raft position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	To the north of Hardt, three serpentinite lenses (meta-ultrabasites) are inserted into the surrounding amphibolite, which morphologically appear as flat ridges. This clearly shows that the tough serpentinite is harder than the surrounding rocks. There are small outcrops on all three hills that show the surrounding rock. The serpentinites show a conspicuous foliation.	1600 80 × 20	Type: Hard rock, Type of rock : Serpentinite	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	FFH area, nature park
Serpentinite hill St. Nicholas at Floß	more pictures	374R035	Raft position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	The Church of St. Nicholas stands on a prominent ridge. Underneath there is a serpentinite body, which protrudes from the surrounding amphibolites as a hardened part due to its weathering resistance. The overgrown slopes are currently no longer showing good outcrops, but to the right of the church staircase the rock - banded serpentinite - can be seen in a prominent block.	9600 120 × 80	Type: Hardening Type: Serpentinite	no information	significant	FFH area, nature park
Giant armchair ESE from Obernankau		374R036	Vohenstrauss position	Naab Mountains	The giant armchair is a towering gneiss rock on the northern slope of the Pfreimdtal, which looks out over the treetops. Therefore you have a beautiful view of the Pfreimdtal from the rock.	225 15 × 15	Type: Rock wall / slope Type: Gneiss	Rock slope / cliff	significant	Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park
Haselstein NW Flossenbürg		374R037	Raft position	Northern Upper Palatinate Forest	On the Haselstein, beautiful wool sack formations in the Flossenbürger granite are exposed in the area of the castle ruins.	60000 200 × 300	Type: wool sack formation, rock type: granite	Rock slope / cliff	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park