List of geotopes in Aschaffenburg

This list contains the geotopes of the Lower Franconian city of Aschaffenburg 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 October 2018) 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
Quarry at the Stengerts WNW of Gailbach		661A004	Aschaffenburg position	Vorpessart	The abandoned quarry of quartz diorite is not a typical intrusive rock , but rather has the appearance of gneiss . It contains large sprinkles of potassium feldspar in a streaky distribution. The quartz diorite is interspersed with pegmatite dikes that lead to 1 cm large titanite crystals. The quarry is now used as a shooting range, but can be visited after prior registration.	4000 100 × 40	Type: Rock type, Mineral type: Diorite	Quarry	precious	Part of the landscape, nature park
Noriswand SE from Aschaffenburg	more pictures	661A005	Aschaffenburg position	Vorpessart	At the Stengerts there is an elongated gorge-like quarry in the forest. Up until the end of the 19th century, lamprophyres of the varieties Spessartite and Kersantite were mined here. The open corridor of the fine-grained, dark gray, splintery breaking rock is overgrown with moss. Both gneisses of the Elterhof formation and diorite are exposed as secondary rocks.	4000 100 × 40	Type: Rock type, Contact type: Diorite	Quarry	especially valuable	Part of the landscape, nature park
White quarry - Heinrich SW shaft of Haibach		661G001	Aschaffenburg position	Vorpessart	There are numerous small marble lenses within the Elterhof formation of the Crystalline Vorspessart. Between Schweinheim and Gailbach, one of these lenses was mined from around 1870 to 1942, initially in a ravine-like quarry, and later also underground. The ravine-like break and a tunnel mouth hole are still preserved today. The material was used for paper production in Aschaffenburg-Damm.	1000 50 × 20	Type: Quarry / Pit Type: Marble	Open pit	precious	Landscape protection area, nature park
Bensenbruch S from Dörrmorsbach	more pictures	661G002	Aschaffenburg position	Vorpessart	Two caves have remained from the former Bensenbruch. In the larger one, 50 to 60 people could find protection during a bombing raid in 1945. The lamprophyre dike is bounded by the basal breccia (red sandstone) alternating with siltstones from the crumbly slate series.	75 15 × 5	Type: tunnel, quarry / pit, rock type, contact type: lamprophyr, sandstone	Quarry	precious	Landscape component, landscape protection area, nature park
Sea of rocks on Grauberg / Stengerts NW of Gailbach	more pictures	661R001	Aschaffenburg position	Vorpessart	On the Grauberg there is a sea of blocks of diorite rocks weathered by wool sack in the forest. The sea of rocks and the Noris wall have been protected as part of the landscape since 1996 because of their rarity and scientific importance.	10000 200 × 50	Type: Blockmeer Type: Diorite	block	precious	Part of the landscape, nature park
Teufelskanzel on Godelsberg E Aschaffenburg	more pictures	661R002	Aschaffenburg position	Vorpessart	The Teufelskanzel viewpoint is located on the northwest corner of the Godelsberg summit plateau. It is accessed via the Spessart-Weg 1 hiking trail and can be easily reached from a hiking car park a short distance away. The pulpit consists of a natural collection of several large blocks of Goldbacher Orthgneiss. This grainy, fibrous muscovite-biotite gneiss is mostly medium to coarse-grained. It often contains conspicuous nests of mica. Further controls of gneiss blocks are also located on the north slope of the mountain (more at the Goldbacher Kanzel). The Kippenburg is located a short distance from the geotope. It was built as a ruin around 1839 from rubble stones to amuse the population.	600 30 × 20	Type: Block Sea Type: Gneiss	Rock slope / cliff	precious	Natural park