List of geotopes in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
This list contains the geotopes of the Central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen 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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Former quarry SW of Bieswang | 577A001 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The large, abandoned quarry provides a particularly good insight into the changeable sponge reef facies of the Mörnsheim reef range. Small independent reef domes build up in the Malm Epsilon over the Dolomites of the Malm Delta. In the Malm Zeta the reefs died and were mixed with plate dolomites. | 40000 200 × 200 |
Type: standard / reference profile, sedimentary structures Type: dolomite stone, limestone |
Quarry | precious | Natural park | ||
Former quarry W of Osterdorf | 577A002 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The large, abandoned break is still well preserved and shows a profile through the Treuchtlinger marble. Numerous karst cavities filled with reddish clay are exposed on the break walls. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: sequence of layers, karst chimney, karst crevice Type: limestone |
Quarry | significant | Natural park | ||
Former quarry N of Osterdorf | 577A003 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Treuchtlinger marble is very open in the disused, fossil-rich quarry. Old fracture systems and sinter formations can be studied in the northern quarry wall. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Rock Type: Limestone |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quarry SE from Weißenburg |
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577A004 |
Weißenburg in Bavaria position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Good exposure of Treuchtlingen marble. It is planned to connect this former quarry with the active quarry in the north. | 20000 100 × 200 |
Type: Rock Type: Limestone |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Former quarry S von Rothenstein | 577A005 |
Weißenburg in Bavaria position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The disused quarry opens up the Treuchtlinger marble (from bank 25 to around bank 9). Clay-filled karst chutes and horizontal leaching horizons are impressively cut into the quarry walls. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Rock type, karst chimney, karst crevice Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | Natural park | ||
Abandoned quarry E von Ursheim | 577A007 |
Polesingen position |
Riesalb | The abandoned quarry opens up well-banked and fossil-rich Lower Malm. Above the Malm Gamma there is a polished surface and colorful breccia of the giant event. In the lower eastern part of the break, short horizontal shifts can be observed in the autochthonous Malm limestone. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: Polished surface (impact), animal fossils, layer sequence Type: Limestone |
Quarry | especially valuable | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quarry SE of Langenaltheimer Haardt |
|
577A008 |
Langenaltheim position |
Riesalb | This is the only disused quarry in which Solnhofen limestone is still well exposed. Most active quarries are backfilled with excavated material during or after their exploitation. The fracture is considered to be the type locality of the plate limestone. In 1992 another specimen of the ancient Archeopteryx was found near this break. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Type locality, Animal Fossils Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | FFH area, bird sanctuary, nature park | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 71 |
Former suevite quarry SW of Polsingen | 577A009 |
Polesingen position |
Nördlinger Ries | The small quarry is located within the Ries crater and is developing massive suevite (4 m thick). It consists mainly of red, vesicular melt rock that includes numerous crystalline fragments (mainly granites). This suevite differs from the normal formation in the appearance of a coherent, void-rich melt rock and thus inspired the assumption of a melt layer at the crater floor, which was not confirmed, however. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: Type locality Type: Suevite |
Quarry | especially valuable | Natural park | ||
Exposure WNW from Weimersheim | 577A010 |
Weißenburg in Bavaria position |
Southwest Albrand region | On both sides of the mountain cut, the Upper Aalen layers are exposed with thin iron ore seams. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Rock Type: Sandstone |
embankment | significant | Soil monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Huns Church NE of Weissenburg | 577A011 |
Höttingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | Below the Bismarck Tower, several Great Dane rocks have been thundered out of their surroundings in the forest. What is striking is the holey weathering of the sandstone layers that were once clayey. | 625 25 × 25 |
Type: Rock type, Tafoni / honeycomb weathering, rock wall / slope Type: Sandstone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Hill on the Hüssinger Berg | 577A012 |
Westheim position |
Nördlinger Ries | The western tip of the Hüssinger Berg marks the boundary of the outer, heavily fragmented zone of the Ries crater against the Alb in the northeast. The summit is formed by the severely broken limestone and marl of the Lower Malm. A notice board explains the special feature. | 4900 70 × 70 |
Type: Rock type, ejecta material (impact) Type: Limestone marl |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Hollow road near Hechlingen |
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577A014 |
Heidenheim position |
Southwest Albrand region | The ravine-like ravine offers a very good outcrop of Doggersandstein with its ore horizons. Disturbances parallel to the slope offset the sequence of shifts several times. The ravine is part of a local and natural history educational trail. | 1500 150 × 10 |
Type: Rock type: Sandstone, iron / manganese ore |
embankment | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Iron sandstone outcrop NE of Hohentrüdingen | 577A015 |
Heidenheim position |
Southwest Albrand region | Diagonally layered Doggersandstein with iron oid layers is exposed in the former sand pit directly on the road. | 150 30 × 5 |
Type: Rock Type: Sandstone |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quarry NE of Hürth | 577A017 |
Treuchtlingen position |
Riesalb | The former quarry near Hürth opens up a profile from the middle Malm Gamma to the lower Malm Delta in stratified facies: at the bottom, 7 m of gray bench limestone are exposed, followed by about 2 m of Crussoliensis marl and 4 m of banked Uhlandi limestone. The bottom three benches of Treuchtlingen marble form the end. | 300 30 × 10 |
Type: Layer sequence, Animal fossils Type: Limestone, Marlstone |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Felsenkeller in Thalmannsfeld | 577A018 |
Bergen position |
Southwest Albrand region | There are approx. 25 cellars along the street that are a few meters deep. The upper ones are filled. The sandstone is unlocked at the entrances, e.g. T. with traces of weathering. The cellars are used. | 1650 110 × 15 |
Type: Sedimentary structures, rock cellars Type: Sandstone |
Rock cellar | significant | Natural park | ||
Quarry W von Fuchsmühle | 577A019 |
Treuchtlingen position |
Riesalb | In the now disused quarry, the top two meters of the Upper Marl Limestone (Arzberg Formation, Malm Gamma) are exposed on the bottom of the entrance area. Above it is more than 30 meters of Treuchtlinger marble (Treuchtlingen formation, Malm Delta). The formation boundary is particularly easy to see here. | 30000 200 × 150 |
Type: sequence of layers, rock type: limestone, marlstone |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former Juramarmorbruch Stiegler NW of Solnhofen | 577A020 |
Solnhofen position |
Riesalb | Treuchtlinger bank lime was mined in the abandoned Stiegler quarry. | 7000 100 × 70 |
Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers, quarry / pit type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area, bird sanctuary | ||
Hobby quarry ESE von Langenaltheim | 577A021 |
Langenaltheim position |
Riesalb | In the separately traced western part of the geotope 577A008, at the Urvogel discovery site Hobbysteinbruch Langenaltheim, fossils can be collected in thin-plate Solnhofen limestone for a small fee from April 1 to October 31. | 3500 70 × 50 |
Type: Rock type, Layer sequence, Animal fossils, Quarry / Pit Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | FFH area, bird sanctuary, nature park | ||
Quarry area at Schrandelberg SE from Langenaltheim | 577A022 |
Langenaltheim position |
Riesalb | The abandoned quarry on Schrandelberg opens up unusually thin-plate Solnhofen limestone. | 4000 100 × 40 |
Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers, quarry / pit type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area, bird sanctuary | ||
Former Iron ore mine Grubschwart NE von Rothenstein |
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577G001 |
Raitenbuch position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Funnel pits, mine shafts and tunnels are reminiscent of the former iron ore mining. These were stored as floor ore in the clay filling of an extensive karst system. An educational trail about the history of mining with 21 stations clearly leads through the area. An audio guide can also be downloaded as an app for smartphone or tablet from www.infofeld.de/grubschwart.html. | 5000 1000 × 5 |
Type: tunnel, karst shaft & horizontal cave, pinge field Type: limestone, clay |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | especially valuable | Soil monument, landscape protection area, nature park | |
Karlsgraben |
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577G003 |
Treuchtlingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | The Karlsgraben testifies to one of the greatest engineering achievements of the early Middle Ages. Charlemagne wanted to connect the Rhine with the Danube through a navigable canal between the Swabian Rezat and the Altmühl, as the rivers approach here at almost 1800 m. After 1,400 m had been excavated (approx. 6,000 workers and 780,000 m³ of earth), supply bottlenecks presumably led to the abandonment of the canal project. The geotope is one of Bavaria's hundred most beautiful geotopes and is explained on site with a corresponding information board. | 50000 1000 × 50 |
Type: Trench, Canal Type: Gravel |
no information | especially valuable | Soil monument, landscape protection area, nature park | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 34 |
Hell funnel NW of Osterdorf | 577G005 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | There are numerous former quarrying sites in a confined space, where floor ores were extracted from tertiary karst fillings. What remained were heaps, funnel pits and some 10 m deep exhumed karst shafts. | 45000 300 × 150 |
Type: Pinge field, sinkhole, karst shaft cave Type: Limestone, clay |
Ping | precious | Soil monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Hollow hole SW from Raitenbuch |
|
577H001 |
Raitenbuch position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The hollow hole opens up the dolomites of the Malm Delta. With the ordinance of the LRA WUG of May 20, 1980, the hollow hole was placed under protection as a natural monument (§ 28 BNatSchG). Because of the risk of accidents and to protect the native bats (including Myotis myotis), the natural monument is fenced in and cannot be entered. | 1000 100 × 10 |
Type: Karst shaft & horizontal cave Type: Dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural monument, FFH area, landscape protection area | |
Devil's Cave W by Bieswang | 577H002 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The approx. 100 m long horizontal cave has two entrances that lead into a vestibule. | 200 100 × 2 |
Type: Karst horizontal cave Type: Limestone, dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Source outlet The seven sources SW of Heidenheim |
|
577Q001 |
Heidenheim position |
Southwest Albrand region | At the border between Opalimus Clay and Doggersandstein lies a spring horizon from which the seven springs arise. | 100 10 × 10 |
Type: Layer Source Type: Sandstone |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Source outlet Steinbrunnen ESE von Göhren | 577Q002 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Several small spring outlets arise in a spring niche set in sandstone. The stone fountain rises on the otherwise arid karst plateau on a remnant of the Upper Freshwater Molasse. The year 1706 is indistinctly visible on the stone arch of the fountain. | 1 1 × 1 |
Type: Layer Source Type: Sandstone |
no information | significant | Monument protection, ground monument, landscape protection area | ||
Gorge Teufelsbackofen NW of Fiegenstall | 577R001 |
Höttingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | The narrow gorge in the Upper Burgsandstein shows only a few outcrops. Feuerletten is waiting at the entrance. Fallen trees make inspection more difficult, especially in the central area. | 18750 250 × 75 |
Type: Canyon, Rock Type: Sandstone |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Stone channel SW from Wolfsbronn |
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577R002 |
Meinheim position |
Riesalb | The course of the stream lies in an approximately 130 m long and up to 160 cm high tufa dam, which is interrupted by several waterfalls. Despite the protection status, the property is to be regarded as largely destroyed, as the channel was artificially walled up with stones and concrete over its entire length as a maintenance measure. A negative example! | 130 130 × 1 |
Type: Stone gutter, layer source Type: Tufa-lime |
no information | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Stone gutter SE from Spielberg |
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577R003 |
Gnotzheim position |
Riesalb | The stream is approx. 20 m long and a maximum of 10 cm high. The channel is deepened and lined with a little lime. The small groove is in the development stage. | 6 20 × 0 |
Type: Stone gutter, layer source Type: Tufa-lime |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | |
Stone channel S from Rohrbach |
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577R004 |
Etten instead of position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The stone channel near Rohrbach is approx. 60 m long and up to 1 m high. A wooden walkway was installed next to the gutter. The source of the channel arises between Opalinus Clay and iron sandstone, the channel grows by 2 to 3 cm annually. This channel was also partly artificially walled up. A natural development is no longer given. The red gorge with the sintered formations of the so-called Junge Steinerne Rinne also belongs to the property. | 18 60 × 0 |
Type: Stone gutter, layer source Type: Tufa-lime |
no information | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Stone channel NNE from Hechlingen |
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577R005 |
Heidenheim position |
Southwest Albrand region | The channel is approx. 10 m long and a maximum of 30 cm high; it has so far been largely preserved in its natural form. A notice board clarifies the specialty of the property. | 10 10 × 1 |
Type: Stone gutter, layer source Type: Tufa-lime |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Stone gutter SE from Oberweiler |
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577R006 |
Meinheim position |
Riesalb | The stream, lined with tufa, is about 50 m long. The tufa excretions have not yet been anthropogenically changed. | 30 30 × 1 |
Type: Stone gutter, layer source Type: Tufa-lime |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Dachsbaufelsen SE from Dettenheim | 577R007 |
Weißenburg in Bavaria position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Dachsbaufelsen was shown on the geological map as sponge reef limestone in the area of Treuchtlinger marble. The rock is heavily mossed and deeply weathered in places, smaller caves lead into the rock. | 100 10 × 10 |
Type: Dome, Rock, Fissure / Tectonic Cave Type: Limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Soil monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Rock group Twelve Apostles N of Esslingen |
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577R008 |
Solnhofen position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Twelve Apostles belong to the Mörnsheimer Riffzug. The picturesque rocks are built up from the sponge algae limestone of the Middle Malm Delta. The rock group is geomorphologically classified as an ensemble, as the numerous isolated rocks represent a coherent range of reefs, which can be recognized by the garland-like coves that run from rock to rock. | 60000 600 × 100 |
Type: rock group, rock tower / needle, rock castle, sedimentary structures Type: dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, natural monument, landscape protection area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 62 |
Hilltop of the Bubenheimer Berg E von Bubenheim |
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577R009 |
Treuchtlingen position |
Southwest Albrand region | On the top of the Bubenheimer Berg, Malm limestone and dolomite clods form hard blocks of up to several cubic meters in size. These hardlings are allochthonous clods that were blasted out of the area of the crater during the Ries disaster. The Malmschollen are usually intensely buried and z. Sometimes baked again, so that they weathered out of the environment as hardened people. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: Ejecta (impact), rocky dome Type: Limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Teufelskanzel SE from Solnhofen |
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577R010 |
Solnhofen position |
Riesalb | The Teufelskanzel rock summit is built up from the bench-top Dolomites of the Malms. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: Crag Type: Dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Ponordoline E by Göhren | 577R011 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Ponor trench is 200 m long, 25 m wide and has a maximum depth of 6 m in the western trench area. In the trench, a small stream flows to the mouth that was flooded with quarry rubble many years ago. | 5000 200 × 25 |
Type: Ponor, sinkhole Type: Breccia, dolomite stone |
no information | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Dolinenfeld E von Göhren | 577R012 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Group of several sinkholes, some of which act as ponors in heavy rain. The largest of the sinkholes has a diameter of approx. 20 m and a depth of approx. 10 m. Another very large sinkhole, in which current subsidence is taking place, is 200 m WNW of the intersection and has not yet been protected as an ND. | 40000 200 × 200 |
Type: Dolinenfeld Type: Dolomite stone, limestone |
no information | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Quartzite blocks E from Döckingen | 577R013 |
Polesingen position |
Riesalb | Various theories exist about the age and the cause of the accumulation of quartzite blocks around Döckingen. There are 8 blocks to the east of the village. The z. Blocks of several cubic meters consist of medium-grain, quartzite cemented sandstones. Fissure structures are characteristic of the quartzites, which can possibly be traced back to the Ries event. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: Type locality, relict rocks Type: Sandstone |
block | especially valuable | Natural park | ||
Ponordolinen NE from Kohnhof | 577R014 |
Polesingen position |
Riesalb | In a small wood there are three large ponordolines with a temporary flow of water in a confined space. Fresh, steep subsidence in the washed-in clay is evidence of recent activity. | 22500 150 × 150 |
Type: Ponor Type: Limestone, Loess Loam |
Sinkhole / sinkhole | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Döckingen sinkhole SSE | 577R015 |
Polesingen position |
Riesalb | The large sinkhole is in the area of allochthonous rift clods. Fresh subsidence is evidence of the ongoing subsidence processes. | 2000 50x40 |
Type: sinkhole Type: limestone |
no information | precious | Natural park | ||
Hunnenstein WSW from Markt Berolzheim | 577R016 |
Market Berolzheim position |
Riesalb | These are two blocks of quartz sandstone, the assignment of which has not yet been clarified. | 1 1 × 1 |
Type: Relic Rocks Type: Sandstone |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | ||
Stream with sinter basin WNW Wolfsbronn |
|
577R017 |
Meinheim position |
Riesalb | Small sinter basins have been formed along the course of the stream over a length of 100 m. | 100 100 × 1 |
Type: Sinter formation, stream / river course Type: Limestone, sandstone |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | |
Stone channel NNW from Heidenheim |
|
577R018 |
Heidenheim position |
Southwest Albrand region | The small but beautiful Steinerne Rinne has not yet been developed for tourism. The natural development of the channel is partially disturbed by attempts to accelerate its growth. | 150 150 × 1 |
Type: Stone Gutter Type: Limestone, Sandstone |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | |
Hohler Stein NW from Stahlmühle | 577R019 |
Heidenheim position |
Southwest Albrand region | The limestone rock wall of the lower Malm lies just outside the edge of the Ries, which is noticeable in the intense fissures. Several small caves with beautifully washed-out profiles start here, but narrow quickly. | 500 50 × 10 |
Type: Rock Castle Type: Limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Dolinenfeld in the Maierholz WSW of Döckingen | 577R020 |
Polesingen position |
Riesalb | In the forest area there are numerous sinkholes in a small space, including the Ponordoline Fuchsbau. In some sinkholes there are large blocks of sandstone that resemble the Döckinger quartzites. | 300000 600 × 500 |
Type: Dolinenfeld, Ponor, relict rocks Type: Limestone, sandstone |
Sinkhole / sinkhole | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Ponordoline SW from Rothenstein | 577R023 |
Pappenheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Large ponordoline with temporary tributaries from two tapering trenches. In the deepest part of the sinkhole you can also see large blocks and rock that may be standing under the clay cover. | 2000 50x40 |
Type: Ponor Type: Limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park |
See also
- List of nature reserves in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
- List of landscape protection areas in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
- List of FFH areas in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen 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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