List of geotopes in the Tirschenreuth district
This list contains the geotopes of the Upper Palatinate district of Tirschenreuth 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 |
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Quartz porphyry hill NNE by Lenau |
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377A002 |
Kulmain position |
Obermain-Bruchschollenland | In the small extraction point, a lava blanket can be seen over an older lava flow. The paleo-soil between the two units is fritted and includes a thin layer of volcanoclastic material (tuff). The edge of greenish, copper-mineralized veins (malachite) is bleached and covered with growth. Yellow to red carnelian and red jasper are rarely found. The outcrop is volcanologically interesting as the extraction vent is in the hill behind the outcrop. | 600 30 × 20 |
Type: rock type, volcanic vent, contact type: rhyolite |
Quarry | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | |
Former marble quarry N of Unterwappenöst |
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377A003 |
Kulmain position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | In the quarry, ancient Paleozoic, metamorphic limestone has been developed. The former sedimentary layer structure is still clearly visible. It consists of an alternation of almost pure carbonate layers and light mica emphasized, former clay-rich areas with pyrite or magnetite. Graphite dusting results in light gray banding. The formerly horizontal layer packages are now steeply positioned and folded. Dark shear surfaces in the mica-rich areas are z. T. can be interpreted as Mylonite zones. | 1200 60 × 20 |
Type: Type of stone, type of layer sequence : Marble |
Quarry | precious | Natural park | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 92 |
Former basalt quarry SE from Aign |
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377A004 |
Kulmain position |
Obermain-Bruchschollenland | Basalt from a former production chimney was almost completely mined in the quarry. The former chimney wall with chimney breccia and tuff ring can be seen in the steep quarry walls. Remnants of lying basalt columns also mark the contact between the basalt and the adjacent rock. Adjacent rocks are dolomite, limestone, marl, etc. fritted by the heat of the basalt. Mudstones of the lower shell limestone. A lake has formed over the bottom of the fracture. In the area of the water surface, the basalt columns can still be seen. | 1500 60 × 25 |
Type: Rock type, volcanic vent, contact, basalt columns Type: basalt, limestone |
Quarry | significant | no protected area | |
Former marble quarry S from Neusorg | 377A005 |
Neusorg position |
Fichtel Mountains | Outcrops in the Neusorg marble can only be found a few in the former mine area. In the middle, two lakes cover most of the area. The banks are forested, the water is used for fish farming. On the shore of the larger lake and in the inaccessible walls, banded and folded marble features occasionally come to light. The break gives its name to the marble train that stretches from Neusorg over Stöcken-Dechantsee and Unterwappenöst. | 43500 290 × 150 |
Type: Rock Type: Marble |
Quarry | significant | Natural park | ||
Former quarry NW of Selingau | 377A007 |
Ebnath position |
Fichtel Mountains | In the almost completely overgrown quarry filled with rubbish, garden waste and rubble and the mostly collapsed walls, a few small outcrops can be found in clearly banded calcium silicate. The bottom of the pit and the outcrops in gabbro amphibolites, tuffites and the granite dike are no longer accessible. | 7500 100 × 75 |
Type: Layer sequence, contact type: Lime silicate rock, amphibolite, granite |
Quarry | significant | Natural park | ||
Franzosenfelsen SW of Lochau | 377A009 |
Neusorg position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The mica schists (otherwise rarely exposed in the area) in the road outcrop show clear layers from thin-leaved to compact layers, which is due to a rhythmic change in the former sedimentary rock. The former clay to sandy part was converted to mica slate. The outcrop lies in the fold leg of a large fold, which is shown by parallel foliation with folded pegmatite dikes. | 800 32 × 25 |
Type: Rock Type: Quartz, Phyllite |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural monument | ||
Wappenstein on Silberrangen NW of Groschlattengrün | 377A011 |
Pechbrunn position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The summit of the Wappenstein is the remainder of an old volcanic vent with several extraction centers. The basalt tuff was mined in several small extraction sites that are now in ruins until around 1930. The tuff is related to the Miocene basalt volcanism in the Upper Palatinate. The central part of the chimney is marked by twisted basalt columns. The surrounding chimney breccia and the tuff ring can no longer be seen. The outcrop is surrounded by a sea of blocks of basalt. | 48000 320 × 150 |
Type: Rock type, volcanic vent Type: Tuff / tuffite, basalt |
Quarry | significant | Natural monument | ||
Former basalt mining N von Steinmühle | 377A017 |
Mitterteich position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The former quarry is located in a lava layer that has been almost completely dismantled. The quarry is almost completely overgrown, the lakes on the bottom are beginning to silt up. In the front part of the pit, facing the B 299, there is a garbage dump and a hazardous waste collection point. The rear part is a biotope. Only a few strongly overgrown outcrops of basalt columns can be found in the biotope. | 72800 260 × 280 |
Type: Rock Type: Basalt |
Quarry | inferior | no protected area | ||
Rocks at Lerchenbühl NE of Neualbenreuth |
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377A019 |
Neualbenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The isolated rock at the edge of the forest is a rare outcrop in the Cambrian mica schist and quartzitic mica schist of the Neualbenreuther layers, which are hardly exposed on the surface. In part, there are still clear layers in the rock, which indicate deposits in a former molasse sea and in places contain gold soaps. During the weathering, a roughly diamond-shaped rock was formed along folds, crevices and foliations. | 30 10 × 3 |
Type: Type of rock, sedimentary structures Type: Mica schist, quartzite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | no protected area | |
Exposure on the Galgenberg SSE from Waldeck | 377A020 |
Kemnath position |
Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland | A former volcanic vent is cut in the fenced-in outcrop on the western slope of the Galgenberg. When the volcano erupted, a vent was created that was filled by the breccia. The later basalt dike (basalt columns) cut through to the surface, fed lava fountains and thus created the tuff ring. In the breccia there are dm-sized rocks made of gray claystones of the Estherian layers and gravel-bearing coarse sandstones of the Benker sandstone. | 20 10 × 2 |
Type: Rock type, volcanic vent Type: Breccia, basalt |
other information | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quarry on Kusch E von Köglitz | 377A021 |
Kemnath position |
Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland | In the quarry, the chimney of a former volcano filled with an eruption breccia is cut. Basalt later penetrated again in the volcano, penetrating as a duct to the surface, feeding lava fountains and creating a tuff ring. The chimney wall was prepared by the quarry, as the basalt in the chimney was completely mined. In small fractures in the east, basalt ducts branching off radially into the surrounding Benker sandstone were exposed from the chimney. | 200 10 × 20 |
Type: Rock type, volcanic vent Type: basalt, breccia, sandstone |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Outcrops in the Fichtelnaabtal SE from Rosenbühl | 377A023 |
Kemnath position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | On the steep bank of the Fichtelnnaab, in the vicinity of the weir near Hopfau, rocks from the Erbendorf green slate series are exposed. As a result of a rock fall, serpentinites and the like are on an area of 4 × 10 m. Mica schist has been exposed from the wedge of growth in a subduction zone. The rocks show clear banding, which indicates an original stratification or early foliation. A short tunnel, in which asbestos was probably extracted, was buried by the rock fall. | 8000 400 × 20 |
Type: Rock Type: Serpentinite, Mica Slate |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former Soap quarry on Föhrenbühl E from Grötschenreuth | 377A024 |
Erbendorf position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The former soapstone quarry was re-exposed in 2007 and opens up examples of serpentinite and soapstone from the Erbendorf green slate series. Soapstone (talc) was mined in the small quarry, which was ground and used industrially as a ceramic raw material. The soapstone was created when Ur-Europe collided with parts of Ur-Africa from the rocks of the upper mantle. The accompanying minerals are chlorite, calcite, dolomite, serpentine (asbestos), actinolite and magnetite. | 2 2 × 1 |
Type: rock type, metamorphic structure, quarry / pit type: serpentinite, amphibolite, talc schist |
Quarry | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Former quarry on Kornberg SW of Schadenreuth | 377A027 |
Erbendorf position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | A lava flow is cut in the outcrop at the foot of the former Kornberg volcano. Since rhyolite lava is relatively viscous, it does not flow very far and forms a massive lava blanket near the chimney. The corrugated surface (flow structure) is still preserved on the lava flow. The lava flow was deposited over a layer of tuff. The layer change between lava flows and tuffs is typical for a stratovolcano (like Vesuvius). What is remarkable is the lack of stone forest granites. | 3450 115 × 30 |
Type: rock type, volcanic vent, contact type: rhyolite |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former Quarry in the ice granite near Liebenstein | 377A029 |
Plößberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | A very light-colored variety of Falkenberg granite was mined in the abandoned quarry. The granite in the quarry is hardly weathered. The wide gap made it possible to break large blocks. The high proportion of up to 8 cm in size feldspars makes the rock appear white as ice (ice granite). Dark, coloring minerals such as muscovite and biotite are hardly available. The quarry gained importance because the granite for the Nazi party rally building in Nuremberg was quarried here. | 250 25 × 10 |
Type: Rock Type: Granite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Phycode schist outcrop in Trevesen | 377A030 |
Pullenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | In the village of Trevesen, 98 greenish quartzite phycode slates are exposed in the garden of the Trevesen property. The quartzite schists form smaller, rather rare interventions within the phycode layers. The peculiarity is that these areas indicate a period with an increased input of quartz sand from the mainland into the predominantly clayey, marine sediments. This can be explained either with a climate catastrophe or the beginning of the Variscan orogeny. | 350 35 × 10 |
Type: rock type, fold / hollow / saddle type: phyllite, mica schist |
embankment | precious | Natural park | ||
Phycode layers profile on the Kranichberg NNW of Bingarten | 377A031 |
Kemnath position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | In an outcrop in the road embankment, the phycode layers typical for the entire region can be found with a very clear alternation of sandy and clayey layers in the marine area with approximately equal proportions. The greenish rocks are strongly folded and the two legs of a larger fold have been shifted clearly against each other. Folded quartz furniture and aplit dykes are clues to the formation of granite during orogeny. | 250 25 × 10 |
Type: Rock type: Phyllite, mica schist, aplite |
embankment | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Gneiss exposure S from Steinmühle |
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377A032 |
Mitterteich position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | Banded gneisses with larger migmatic areas can be seen in the outcrop along the road. The rock is clearly folded, which can be seen from the folded, bright migmatic layers. The migmatic areas mark zones in which granitic melt was formed on site during orogeny. The specialty is that good outcrops in the ribbon gneisses in the area are rare. | 216 54 × 4 |
Type: Type of rock, metamorphic structure, fold / hollow / saddle Type: Gneiss |
embankment | significant | no protected area | |
Outcrops at the sports field in Ebnath | 377A033 |
Ebnath position |
Fichtel Mountains | In the Felsenhäusl you can find marble strips and folded mica slate with lime silicate lenses from the Upper Proterozoic lime / lime silicate rock series. The former stratification of the sediments and a 2 m thick marble lens clearly show the deposition conditions at the time. In the outcrop it is easy to distinguish between stratification and foliation. The outcrop is special in that good outcrops are rare in the lime / lime silicate rock series. | 100 20 × 5 |
Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers, rock cellar, rock wall / slope Type: mica slate, calcium silicate rock, marble |
Rock cellar | precious | Natural park | ||
Former Quarry at Steinbühl NE of Dobrigau | 377A034 |
Leonberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | In the old quarry in the forest with sparse trees, only part of the former quarry wall has been preserved. The bottom of the pit is covered with water. An outcrop of approx. 4 × 3 m opens up the heavily folded u. shale slate of the Wetzldorf sequence. During the metamorphosis, the former mudstone is heavily silicified by mobilizing quartz. The slate can be split into slabs approx. 2 to 3 cm thick. The outcrop is special because good outcrops are rare. | 8 4 × 2 |
Type: Rock type, fold / trough / saddle type: Kieselschiefer |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Heusterzbühl SSW gravel pit from Münchsgrün | 377A035 |
Leonberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | In the Heusterzbühl mine, soil-forming processes, which converted the sands and gravels deposited in the Tertiary fluviatile into podsol, can be easily understood. The pebbles and sands are used to gravel the surrounding forest roads. | 15000 300 × 50 |
Type: soil profile, kaolinization, sequence of layers Type: gravel, sand |
Gravel pit / sand pit | precious | Natural park | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 91 | |
Sandstone outcrop Paterlhütte WSW from Erbendorf | 377A036 |
Erbendorf position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | In the abandoned quarry northwest of the Paterlhütte there are greenish-gray sandstones as well as silt and claystone layers of the Lower Rotliee. So-called fire slate contain charred plant remains. There is a tunnel mouth hole in the outcrop wall. | 2000 80 × 25 |
Type: sequence of layers, rock type, vegetable fossils type: sandstone, claystone, coal |
Quarry | especially valuable | no protected area | ||
Kiesgrube SE from Albenreuth | 377A037 |
Kemnath position |
Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland | The Albenreuth gravel is located in the gravel pit immediately southeast of Albenreuth. They contain pebbles from Cambro-Ordovician phyllites, mica schist and quartzites as well as quartz porphyry, conglomerate and sandy mudstone from Rotliegend. The pit is the only permanent outcrop in the Albenreuth gravel, which is now attributed to the Hesserberg member of the Hessenreuth formation. | 400 20 × 20 |
Type: type locality, sediment structures, type of rock, layer sequence type: gravel |
Gravel pit / sand pit | especially valuable | no protected area | ||
Outcrop of the Franconian Line 500 m N from Waldeck | 377A038 |
Kemnath position |
Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland | In a wooded area approx. 500 m north of the church of Waldeck, the Franconian line that falls to the ENE is exposed in a ravine in the southern embankment. Epigneise of the basement (rhyolite metavulcanites of the Saxothuringian) lie on Triassic rocks (Benker sandstone) due to tectonically. In the border area there are gray disturbance bands. | 10 5 × 2 |
Type: Disturbance Type: Gneiss, Sandstone |
other information | especially valuable | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Granite rock SE from Leugas | 377A039 |
Wiesau position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | Rock formation and abandoned quarry, in which medium-grain, partially porphyry Mitterteicher granite stands. The fine fissures in the uppermost area of the wall are particularly noticeable, while wool sack weathering can be observed below. The granite, which is actually very compact, is partly badly weathered. The kaolinization of the feldspars can be seen very well on the exposed walls in the west of the outcrop. | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: rock type, kaolinization, wool sacking, crevice type: granite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Quartz passage N from Leonberg | 377A041 |
Leonberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | A pending quartz vein has been exposed in a pit. It is a large block, which is milk-white in color and strongly fissured. The surface is covered with moss. | 60 10 × 6 |
Type: Gait Type: Gait quartz |
not known | significant | no protected area | ||
Quarry S of Mammersreuth | 377A042 |
Waldsassen position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | At the edge of the forest south of Mammersreuth there is a small abandoned quarry in the Phylliten Gräfenthal formation. This is the only outcrop in these rocks in the entire region. The foliation is steep, the original stratification can be recognized by changing the material in the handpieces. The site is occasionally maintained and is therefore easily accessible. | 1200 40 × 30 |
Type: Rock Type: Phyllite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Pingenfeld in Aign's Spitalholz NE | 377G001 |
Kulmain position |
Fichtel Mountains | In the 16th century, mining on brown iron a. Copper ore operated in the Ordovician quartz phyllites that formed during tropical weathering in the Tertiary. Even today, on a hilltop in the forest, an extensive area with pings up to 6 m in diameter and up to 2 m deep is evidence of a busy mining operation. There is also a buried tunnel mouth hole with a heap. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Pinge / nfeld Type: Phyllite |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Large ping in Burgholz N of Schachten | 377G003 |
Neualbenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | Synsedimentary gold deposits were mined in the 16th century. The large pinge is contaminated with rubbish deposits. | 15 5 × 3 |
Type: Pinge / nfeld Type: Phyllite |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Eisener Hut SE from Pfaffenreuth | 377G004 |
Leonberg position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | Synsedimentary gravel ore deposits occur in Ordovician phyllites near Pfaffenreuth. The iron hat (natural monument!) Is a hardened quartz that was created by tertiary lateritic weathering and interspersed with limonite (brown iron ore). It shows the outcrop of one of these camps (M-camps, mainly magnetic gravel) on the earth's surface. Traces of mining were already mentioned by Flurl (1792). Remnants of the Bayerland mine, which was in operation until 1971, are nearby. | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: Open pit, hard rock, minerals Type: iron ore, phyllite |
Schurf | precious | Natural monument | ||
Pingen am Högelstein NW of Mähring | 377G005 |
Mähring position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | In the 17th and 18th centuries copper was mined here, some of which was bound to quartz lenses in Cambrian mica schists. Scattered pings in the forest around the church of St. Nikolaus and dumps near the stream and a buried tunnel mouth hole with water outlet have been preserved as mining tools. Vein quartz with small quartz crystals and brown iron can be found on the heaps. | 44200 340 × 130 |
Type: Pinge / nfeld, Minerals, Stollen Type: Mica schist |
Ping | precious | no protected area | ||
Pingenfeld Churfürst am Unteren Brand near Ernestgrün | 377G007 |
Neualbenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | There are three pings in a wood. The pings Churfürst, Güldenstern and an unnamed pinge have a diameter of 5 to 6 meters and a shaft depth of approx. 8 meters. A cable winch (reel) from the 16th century is reproduced. The gold deposit has a total extension of 2 km in length and is approximately 800 m wide. The Steppenloch shaft was 200 m further to the east. | 8250 110 × 75 |
Type: Pinge / nfeld, Schacht, Halde Type: Mica schist, quartzite |
Ping | precious | no protected area | ||
Soap hills and funnel pits near the gold fountain SW Erbendorf | 377G008 |
Erbendorf position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | In the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era, gold was dug for gold in trenches and pings with a diameter of up to 10 m at the gold fountain in the Kirchwald south of Erbendorf, and gold was panned in the nearby Galgenbach. Gold soaps formed in a matrix of biotite gneisses, granites, phyllites, mica schist and Guttenberg quartzite in the Albenreuth gravel from the Cretaceous period in the Hessenreuther Wald. | 32000 400 × 80 |
Type: Soap laundry, Pinge / nfeld, Schurf Type: Gneiss, conglomerate |
Ping | precious | no protected area | ||
Rotenfels iron mine | 377G009 |
Immenreuth position |
Fichtel Mountains | At the Rotenfels in the Flötzbachtal, quartzites of the Frauenbach formation are exposed, which are impregnated with the iron mineral hematite and therefore have a distinct red color. Iron ore was probably mined here from the 15th to the 18th century. Relics of tunnel mouth holes, collapsed shafts and dump material testify to the former mining. | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: Opencast mining, tunnel, dump Type: Iron ore, quartzite |
Pit / canal / ravine | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Gold soap factory in the valley of the Kalmreut NNE from Altmugl | 377G010 |
Neualbenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | There are numerous soap mounds and ditches from the processing of gold soaps in the forest. | 20800 260 × 80 |
Type: Soap Laundry Type: Quartzite |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Sauerbrunnen in the NSG Waldnaabtal ENE of Ödwalpersreuth | 377Q001 |
Falkenberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | In the publicly accessible mineral fountain on the hiking trail above the log cabin in the NSG Waldnaabtal rises a spring with sulfur and. carbonated water that colors the surrounding granite yellowish-reddish. In the Tirschenreuth area there are a number of such sourlings, which are associated with the beginning of volcanic activity. Earthquakes and the subsequent extraction of hot, sulphurous water from springs in the stone forest are historically documented. | 1 1 × 1 |
Type: Constriction Source Type: Granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Nature reserve, FFH area | ||
Weißenstein WSW ruins from Fuchsmühl |
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377R001 |
Waldershof position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | There are several massive rock towers from z. Sometimes bizarre weathered granite wool sacks. The ruins of the old castle, which were built on the summit platform in the Middle Ages, are now used as a destination for excursions. | 1500 50 × 30 |
Type: Rock Tower / Needle Type: Granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Hackelstein summit W from Fuchsmühl |
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377R002 |
Fuchsmühl position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | It is a group of imposing rock formations made of sacks of granite wool piled on top of each other. A little below the summit lies another large rock formation. | 2800 70 × 40 |
Type: rock castle, rock type, metamorphic structure type: granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | |
Felsental SE from Muglmühle |
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377R003 |
Neualbenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | Large rocks made of biotite-rich Cambrian mica schists and quartzites lie in the narrow brook valley. A stair-like waterfall with a total height of approx. 4 m and whirlpool holes characterize the Bachtal. Sign to the waterfall. | 80 20 × 4 |
Type: rock wall / slope, rock type, metamorphic structure, contact type: mica schist, vein mineralization |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | no protected area | |
Schlossberg SSW from Waldeck |
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377R004 |
Kemnath position |
Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland | As a hardened basalt, the Schlossberg towers over the sedimentary rock surroundings. On the south side of the summit there is a large outcrop in the massive basalt, which contains numerous peridotite inclusions (olivine nodules). A weak column structure can be seen. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: rocky dome, volcanic vent, rock type, minerals type: basalt, peridotite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Härtling SW from Anzenberg |
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377R005 |
Kemnath position |
Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland | The basaltic, long-elliptical vent breccia filling extends in a north-south direction. It contains rubble-rich Benker sandstone and arkoses from the Coburg sandstone. | 2500 50 × 50 |
Type: hardness, volcanic vent, rock type, contact type: basalt, breccia, sandstone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | no protected area | |
Armesberg E from Altensteinreuth | 377R006 |
Kulmain position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The feldspar basalt containing nepheline is only available in the uppermost summit area. A moss-covered block pile adjoins the southeast slope. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: volcanic chimney, basalt columns, rock type, sea of rocks, minerals Type: basalt |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Saubadfelsen NW of Napfberg | 377R007 |
Erbendorf position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The massive rocks made of fine to medium-grain granite show weathered wool sacks. At the foot of the rock formation there is a block heap. | 12000 200 × 60 |
Type: Crag, rock type, sea of boulders, wool sack formation Type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Serpentinite Härtling Föhrenbühl E from Grötschenreuth | 377R008 |
Erbendorf position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The serpentinites of the Erbendorf green slate zone break through the weathered cover here as groups of rocks and ribs. The back bears lean vegetation typical of serpentinite sites (Föhrenbühl). | 5000 250 × 20 |
Type: hardness, metamorphic structure, contact type: serpentinite, amphibolite, green slate |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 50 | |
Redwitzit blocks S from Röthenbach | 377R009 |
Reuth near Erbendorf position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | On both sides of the street are the large, whale-shaped blocks. Recent formation of sacrificial boilers. Morphologically striking are the ribs, which trace the cementing of an older fissure network (due to albite-rich plagioclase and quartz). | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: wool sack formation, contact type: granodiorite, vein mineralization |
block | precious | Natural park | ||
Härtling Kühstein SE from Erbendorf | 377R010 |
Erbendorf position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | At the foot of the serpentinite back of the hardlings lies a block field. | 1500 50 × 30 |
Type: Felskuppe, Härtling, Blockmeer, Rock Type: Serpentinite, Amphibolite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Natural monument, FFH area, nature park | ||
Teufelsstein NE from Napfberg | 377R011 |
Erbendorf position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | Large granite block in the shape of wool sack. | 1750 70 × 25 |
Type: wool sack formation, rock group Type: granite |
block | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Burgberg in Falkenberg |
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377R012 |
Falkenberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The eroded, exposed granite rock weathered in the typical wool sack shape. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Rock Castle Type: Granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | especially valuable | Natural monument | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 4 |
NSG Waldnaabtal SW from Falkenberg |
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377R013 |
Falkenberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | In the nature reserve, the Waldnaab crosses the Falkenberg granite massif between Falkenberg and Windischeschenbach over a length of 12 km. The river valley, cut like a gorge, deserves the name Canon. Erosion coves and grinding marks in the rock walls testify how the river ate its way into the subsoil relatively quickly as the area began to lift. To the north of the Sauerbrunnen, the Waldnaab breakthrough can be found as a particularly narrow place with many boulders in the river bed. | 480000 6000 × 80 |
Type: Canyon Type: Granite |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area | |
Rock formations ENE from Troglauermühle | 377R014 |
Falkenberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | At the Troglauermühle, the Waldnaab cuts through the Falkenberg granite over a length of 100 m. The relatively narrow valley with up to 20 m high granite walls on both sides of the river offers shelter for humans and animals in erosion caves. The protected location by the water caused already in the Stein- u. Urnfield time (12,000 or 800 BC) people to settle here, which is proven by a large number of finds from a rock shelter (Abri). | 6000 100 × 60 |
Type: rock wall / slope, rock type, bank / surf cave type: granite |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Natural monument, FFH area, bird sanctuary | ||
Sulzteichstein W by Beidl | 377R015 |
Plößberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | A monolithic granite block with three crosses protrudes from the Sulzteich pond in Beidl. The stone is of local importance because its origin is puzzled and therefore it is popularly known as the Devil's Stone or Three Cross Stone. The stone is largely overgrown. Only above the surface of the water does a narrow, vegetation-free area mark the constant change in the water level; in autumn 2006 it was approx. 30 cm wide. | 12 4 × 3 |
Type: wool sack formation, rock type: granite |
block | precious | Natural monument | ||
Bürgerfelsen on Burgberg in Falkenberg | 377R016 |
Falkenberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | At the foot of the castle hill lies the granite block made of Falkenberg granite with feldspar fragments of up to 5 cm in length. | 50 10 × 5 |
Type: wool sack formation, rock type: granite |
block | precious | Natural monument, FFH area | ||
Wolfenstein SE from Hohenwald |
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377R017 |
Tirschenreuth position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The massive granite rock formation has feldspar sprouts of different sizes. It weathers in the form of a wool sack and is covered in pseudo-carts. | 900 30 × 30 |
Type: carts / fields, rock type: granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural monument | |
Small Teufelsküche NE in Lengenfeld | 377R018 |
Tirschenreuth position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | At the entrance to the Small Devil's Kitchen, the property is best opened. The granite blocks pile up in and around the stream over a length of approx. 50 m. | 2500 50 × 50 |
Type: rock wall / slope, rock type: granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area | ||
Great Devil's Kitchen N of Pilmersreuth |
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377R019 |
Tirschenreuth position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | Grouped around a stream there are several rock formations made of granite wool sacks with feldspar fragments up to 4 cm in length. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: rock wall / slope, rock group, rock type: granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural monument | |
High stone N by Liebenstein | 377R020 |
Plößberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The granite shows the beginning of wool sack weathering at the fissures and is covered by pseudo-carts. | 25 5 × 5 |
Type: carts / fields, rock type: granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural monument | ||
Granite rock Tiefenlohe SE from Liebenstein | 377R021 |
Plößberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The granite formation shows wool sack formations. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: wool sack formation, rock type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument | ||
Poppenlohfelsen SSE from Schwarzenbach | 377R022 |
Bärnau position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | Small rocky hill in the eastern edge of the Falkenberg granite. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: rocky dome, rock type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Natural monument | ||
Steinernes Viertel SSE by Naab | 377R023 |
Bärnau position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The beautiful rock group Steinernes Viertel is located on a small knoll in the forest. The individual granite rocks have been carved out by weathering wool sacks and are increasingly falling apart into a sea of blocks. The weathering starts at the horizontal and vertical crevices and creates carts on the rocks. The medium-grain Flossenbürger granite with lots of light mica and up to 1 cm in size quartz and moss is hidden under the growth of lichen and moss. Feldspar crystals. | 60 10 × 6 |
Type: wool sack formation, rock group, block sea, rock type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Basalt cone Steinhübel E by Pechbrunn | 377R024 |
Pechbrunn position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The entire summit is completely grown together, only a few small outcrops can be seen. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Ridge Type: Basalt |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument | ||
Dolines in the Wunsiedler marble SW of Waldershof | 377R025 |
Waldershof position |
Fichtel Mountains | There are 3 sinkholes in a row in the forest. The pits are partially overgrown with grass. The arrangement suggests an elongated karst system underground. There is another large grassy sinkhole about 50 meters away. | 90 15 × 6 |
Type: sinkhole Type: marble |
Sinkhole / sinkhole | precious | Natural park | ||
Huberfelsen E rock group from Neuköslarn | 377R026 |
Erbendorf position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The Huberfelsen form a group of about 12 rock towers along the ridge. The Steinwald granite shows an unusually high muscovite content here. The mica, feldspars and quartz are roughly all the same size with about 0.3 to 0.5 cm. The granite is sheared horizontally in the upper area of the towers. Weathering gives rise to both rounded and flattened wool sack structures. | 40,000 500 × 80 |
Type: Wool Sacking Type: Granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Reiseneggerfelsen (Steinschlatter) ENE from Neuköslarn | 377R027 |
Pullenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The Reiseneggerfelsen, also called Steinschlatter, is a large granite monolith. The granite is comparable to the nearby Huberfelsen. The granite block forms a rounded back. On the back there is a viewing platform with a view over the stone forest. | 30000 300 × 100 |
Type: Wool Sacking Type: Granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Giant bowl NNE from Friedenfels | 377R028 |
Friedenfels position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The Giant Bowl rock tower was created through the weathering of wool sacks in the Steinwald granite. Cross and horizontal fissures let the rock break. The weathering penetrated the crevices and created blocks of cubic meters that were piled up by gigantic hands. The two-mica granite has only a little muscovite. The feldspars reach up to 2 cm in size. | 250 25 × 10 |
Type: wool sack formation, rock castle, rock group, rock type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Frog rock WSW from Altmugl | 377R029 |
Neualbenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The outcrop in the banded slates of the Ernestgrüner-Neualbenreuther ore formation. The rock shows an alternating layer of formerly clayey and sandy sedimentation. The weathering intervened in the fractures created by fissures and foliage and created a trapezoidal rock. Its shape is reminiscent of a frog, which is what gives it its name. | 120 12 × 10 |
Type: rock tower / needle, sedimentary structures Type: mica schist, phyllite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | no protected area | ||
Kuschberg SE from Atzmannsberg | 377R030 |
Kemnath position |
Upper Palatinate Basement Foreland | The Kuschberg near Atzmannsberg is a former volcanic vent. Alkali olivine basalts penetrated the chimney in the Tertiary. The chimney is surrounded by a tuff ring with tuffs and eruption breccia. On the Kuschberg two good outcrops have been preserved in the chimney breccia and the columnar basalts of the chimney. | 6400 80 × 80 |
Type: Hardening Type: Basalt, Tuff / Tuffit |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | no protected area | ||
Volcanic vent on Oberteich Bühl NNW from Oberteich | 377R031 |
Mitterteich position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The Oberteicher Bühl is a former volcano, the chimney and lava cover of which is carved out as hardness. The fine-grained and olovinreian alkali basalt was mined in many small extraction sites. The basalt shows a flowing texture with few bubble cavities. The chimney is surrounded by a tuff ring. | 28900 170 × 170 |
Type: volcanic chimney, rock type: basalt, tuff / tuffite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | no protected area | ||
Konnsberg E from Konnersreuth | 377R032 |
Konnersreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The Konnsbühl volcano rises above the area as a striking Härtlings summit. About 20 million years ago, molten basalt flowed out of the former chimney and formed a lava blanket on the surrounding gneiss around the delivery channel. The former extensive cover with lava can now be seen as a sea of basalt blocks at the top of the mountain. In a small quarry in the lava cover in the east of the mountain, you can find beautiful basalt columns several meters high. | 35000 350 × 100 |
Type: volcanic chimney, boulder sea, rock type: basalt, tuff / tuffite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | no protected area | ||
Rotliegend-Vulkanite WNW Oberwappenöst | 377R033 |
Kulmain position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | In a small wood, tuffs and lavas made of rhyolite / quartz porphyry can be found in former pings. The undergrowth is very bushy and rhyolites with feldspars up to 0.5 cm in size can only be found in the fallen pings. It is believed that semi-precious stones were dug here. | 2500 50 × 50 |
Type: hard rock, type of rock : rhyolite, tuff / tuffite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural park | ||
Peat bog NW of Rosall | 377R034 |
Leonberg position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | Peat bog in the forest. | 60000 2000 × 30 |
Type: Fen Type: Peat |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Gulgberg W from Pleussen | 377R035 |
Mitterteich position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | Basalt dome with extraction sites and a sea of blocks at the summit | 1000000 1000 × 1000 |
Type: volcanic vent, rock type: basalt |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | no protected area | ||
Golitzstein NW of Mähring | 377R036 |
Mähring position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | The Golitzstein is a single standing monolithic rock made of mica schist, surrounded by a sea of blocks. The cm-large quartz crystals in the folded quartz layers are striking. Light muscovite layers between the quartzite layers indicate a former stratification in the sediment. | 400 20 × 20 |
Type: rock tower / needle, boulder, sea boulder Type: mica schist |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | no protected area | ||
Valley of the Wondreb WNW of Wondreb | 377R037 |
Tirschenreuth position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | The Wondreb meanders in innumerable meanders through a park-like landscape. The Wondreb Valley is a good example of the harmony between nature conservation and agriculture. | 700000 3500 × 200 |
Type: stream / river course, meander type: sand, silt, gravel |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Corundum gneiss and gabbro blocks WSW from Plößberg | 377R038 |
Plößberg position |
Northern Upper Palatinate Forest | In the Pointholz forest area there are many blocks of different sizes and different lithologies. The formation of the rocks shows that a contact zone has formed around the Falkenberg granite in the garnet-cordierite-sillimanite gneiss. The corundum-hercynite rock and the Redwitzite gabbro were not influenced by it. The corundum-hercynite rock was created by metamorphosis of former laterites and was only heated up much later when the gabbro was seated. | 25 5 × 5 |
Type: Boulder Type: Gabbro, Gneiss |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Wackelstein W from Schurbach | 377R039 |
Ebnath position |
Fichtel Mountains | The rock has been carved out by weathering the wool sack of the Kosseine granite. The large potassium feldspars in the granite are striking. The rocking stone is a large flat rock that can be made to tip (wobble) by a person with strength and skill. | 0 not specified |
Type: wool sack formation, boulder, rock type: granite |
block | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Basalt dome Großbüchlberg | 377R040 |
Mitterteich position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | In Großbüchlberg there is a striking basalt hardwood. The black to black-gray, strongly splintery breaking alkali basalt is open and exudes columnar. From Großbüchlberg you have an impressive view over the Mitterteich basin. The location is therefore regularly visited by excursions. | 16000 160 × 100 |
Type: Härtling, Basalt Columns Type: Alkali, Basalt |
no information | precious | no protected area | ||
Quaternary Maar SE from Neualbenreuth | 377R041 |
Neualbenreuth position |
Southern Fichtel Mountains | Approx. 1.5 km south-east of Neualbenreuth, north-west of the Tillenberg, there is an approx. 250 m × 350 m large, rounded structure characterized by bog formation, which was identified as a maar by a research drilling in 2015. The maar funnel is filled with over 90 meters of sediment. It is a maar funnel that is believed to be around 200,000 years old. | 87500 250 × 350 |
Type: Maar, transitional moor Type: silt, sand, peat |
no information | especially valuable | Water protection area |
See also
- List of nature reserves in the Tirschenreuth district
- List of landscape protection areas in the Tirschenreuth district
- List of FFH areas in the Tirschenreuth district
- List of natural monuments in the Tirschenreuth district
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data source: Bavarian State Office for the Environment, www.lfu.bayern.de, Geotoprecherche (accessed on September 16, 2017)
Web links
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