List of geotopes in the Wolfenbüttel district

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The list of geotopes in the Wolfenbüttel district contains the geotopes in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony . Some of these geotopes are also protected as natural monuments (ND), landscape protection areas (LSG), nature reserves (NSG) or part of these.

Geotope no. designation place comment Coordinates image
3730/01 Former Quarry in the Trochitic Limestone east of Erkerode Geotope type: directional profile, fossil finds. Length 20 m, width 40 m, height 8 m.
Stratigraphy: Triassic Upper Muschelkalk (Trochitenkalk).
Petrography: 1 sole, rich in limestone shell residues.
In the landscape protection area LSG-WF 22 Elm 		52 ° 12 '6.5 "  N , 10 ° 42' 48.3"  E Trochitic limestone near Erkerode
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3730/02 Sinkhole area and stream shrinkage "devil's kitchen" approx. 400 m (SO Vorwerk Reitling), community-free area Am Großen Rhode Geotope types: sinkhole, stream shrinkage. Length 50 m, width 50 m, height 15 m.
Stratigraphy: Triassic - Upper Buntsandstein (red).
Petrography: colorful, clay-contaminated, thin-plate plaster stones of the Röt.
In the landscape protection area LSG-WF 22		 52 ° 12 ′ 14.4 "  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 31"  E
3730/03 Foam lime banks, former Angerstein quarry on the Königslutter-Sambleben road, NW of the Whs. Tetzelstein, Sickte Geotope type: directional profile. Length 120 m, width 200 m, height 6 m.
Stratigraphy: Triassic Lower Muschelkalk.
Petrography: Wavy limestone and foam limestone banks.
In the landscape protection area LSG-WF 22		 52 ° 12 '0.7 "  N , 10 ° 47' 38.8"  E
3730/11 Former Limestone quarry approx. 1.4 km SE Destedt, Erkerode Geotope type: directional profile. Length 330 m, width 220 m, height 40 m.
Stratigraphy: Triassic Lower Muschelkalk.
In the landscape protection area LSG-WF 22		 52 ° 13 '56.6 "  N , 10 ° 44' 6.4"  E
3730/14 Steep step landscape with cracks in the Elm all around the Reitlingstal, Evessen Geotope type: directional profile. Length 4500 m, width 1100 m.
Stratigraphy: Triassic Lower Muschelkalk.
Petrography: Quaternary.
In the landscape protection area LSG-WF 22		 52 ° 11 '53.2 "  N , 10 ° 43' 2.6"  E Reitlingstal
3829/01 source on the northern edge of the Oder forest on the Posteiche near Halchter , Wolfenbüttel Geotope type: source. Length 20 m, width 40 m.
Stratigraphy: Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian marls.
Petrography: The source arises from Cenomanian marls, which have a slight loess or loess clay cover (Pleistocene).		 52 ° 8 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 55.1 ″  E
3829/04 Vilgensee, source 1 km W Dettum, Denkte Spring pond in the limestone area with several small islands. Geotope types: lake, source XQ.
In the landscape protection area LSG-WF 3.		 52 ° 10  '19.6 " N , 10 ° 38' 54.6"  E Spring pond in the limestone area
3830/03 Gabbro boulder at the barrow near Eilum approx. 260 m N Eilum , Schöppenstedt Geotope type: boulder. Length 1 m, width 1.4 m, height 1 m.
Stratigraphy: Quaternary Pleistocene.
Petrography: dark gabbro.
Natural monument ND-WF 12		 52 ° 9 '56.5 "  N , 10 ° 43' 21.4"  E
3830/04 former quarry, steep, trochitic limestone at Mühlenberg approx. 500 m NW Uehrde , Schöppenstedt Geotope type: storage conditions. Length 500 m, width 40 m, height 1 m.
Stratigraphy: Triassic Upper Muschelkalk.		 52 ° 6 '20.2 "  N , 10 ° 45' 6.8"  O
3830/05 Sinkholes about 1.6 km E Whs. Tetzelstein, Schöppenstedt Geotope type: sinkhole. Length 1200 m, width 650 m, height 5 m.
Stratigraphy: Triassic Upper Muschelkalk to Quaternary.
Petrography: The sinkholes were created by leaching the gypsum.
In the landscape protection area LSG-WF 22		 52 ° 11 '30.1 "  N , 10 ° 48' 47.2"  E
3830/06 Medieval quarries approx. 2 km N Kneitlingen , community-free area Am Großen Rhode Geotope type: directional profile. Length 11 m, width 800 m, height 100 m.
Stratigraphy: Triassic Lower Muschelkalk.
In the landscape protection area LSG-WF 22		 52 ° 11 '35.9 "  N , 10 ° 45' 20.9"  O
3927/03 Hilssandstone cliffs on the Hainberg approx. 3.5 km WSW Sehlde Geotope type: cliffs. Height 10 m.
Stratigraphy: Lower Cretaceous, Alb.
In the landscape protection area LSG-HI 56, LSG-WF 31, LSG-GS 45 "Hainberg, Wohldenberg, Braune Heide, Klein Rhüdener Holz and angr. Landscape parts"		 52 ° 1 '46.6 "  N , 10 ° 12' 46.8"  E Hilssandstein cliff in the Hainberg near Sehlde
3927/05 Border area between white and red skimmer limestone, former quarry N outskirts of Baddeckestedt Geotope type: directional profile.
Stratigraphy: Upper Cretaceous.		 52 ° 5 '27.2 "  N , 10 ° 13' 45.1"  E
3929/02 Former Sandstone quarry approx. 1.8 km NE Seinstedt-Hedeper, Achim Geotope type: directional profile. Length 220 m, height 15 m.
Stratigraphy: Upper Cretaceous.		 52 ° 3 '42.8 "  N , 10 ° 39' 35.6"  E
3930/02 Rhätsandsteinklippe in the NSG "Klotzberg" Klotzberg , approx. 1 km south of Wetzleben, Hedeper Geotope type: sedimentary structures. Length 300 m, width 40 m, height 28 m.
Stratigraphy: Trias-Oberer Keuper (Rhät).
Petrography: soft quartz sandstone of light color and fine-grained.
In the nature reserve NSG-BR 012 "Klotzberg".		 52 ° 3 '31 "  N , 10 ° 42' 47.9"  E Sandstone formation of the Klotzberg
4029/08 Abandoned loess pit (upper Schierksmühle) Schladen Geotope type: drifting sand cover.
Stratigraphy: Quaternary - Pleistocene, Vistula Glaciation.
Petrography: Vistula loess, fossil soils, Holocene parabrown earth.		 51 ° 59 '26.2 "  N , 10 ° 30' 14.8"  E

See also

Web links

Commons : Geotopes in the Wolfenbüttel district  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vilgensee on elm-asse-kultur.de: trips
  2. ↑ Bodensteiner Cliff , (pdf; 217 kB)
  3. ↑ Baddeckestedt , (pdf; 301 kB)
  4. ↑ Seinstedt Keuper , (pdf; 349 kB)