List of geotopes in Hof

This list contains the geotopes of the Upper Franconian town of Hof 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
Hohlweg N from Leimitz		464A001	Yard position	Franconian Forest	Type locality of the world-famous Leimitz formation with a fauna of the Untertremadoc. Silurian silica slates leading to graptolites are adjacent. After the embankments of the ravine had completely overgrown in the past, new pits were dug in 2010 to preserve the outcrop.	600 150 × 4	Type: Animal Fossils, Type Locality, Disorder Type: Mudstone	embankment	especially valuable	Landscape component
Quarry on Eichelberg		464A002	Yard position	Franconian Forest	In the Eichelberg quarry, a sliding block from Upper Devonian flaserkalk was previously mined within the Lower Carboniferous Grauwacken slate series of the Bavarian facies. There were different varieties of this Theresienstein marble. A dense, gray limestone with black and green fibers and white calcite fissures is still accessible today. The famous, intensely red-spotted trout stones lie below the water level.	10000 100 × 100	Type: Rock Type: Limestone	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area
Old urban quarry Hof		464A003	Yard position	Franconian Forest	The old town quarry is located in the grounds of the Meinel brewery in Hof. The revelation, already visited and drawn by Goethe, had already been abandoned at that time. Over a long period of time, the weathering was able to remove the structures of the flaky lime so that the folds became visible. The material from this quarry was used in many ways in Hof (foundations, city walls, retaining walls), which can still be seen in the city today. The quarry is located on the premises of the Meinel brewery. A plaque on the Theresienstein Geopath explains the situation.	200 20 × 10	Type: sedimentary structures, fold / trough / saddle, rock type: limestone	Quarry	precious	no protected area
Labyrinth break NE from Hof		464A004	Yard position	Franconian Forest	In the old quarry on Labyrinthberg, v. a. in the 19th century diabase and diabase breccias were dismantled for road construction in Hof. The break became famous for the occurrence of cat eyes, which were even made into jewelry. In addition to the quarry, there are numerous rock clearances in diabase breccias in the entire slope area of the Labyrinthberg.	2500 50 × 50	Type: Rock Type , Mineral Type: Meta-Basalt	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area
Quarry at the gatekeeper's house		464A005	Yard position	Franconian Forest	The old quarry is located directly on the Saale cycle path. Diabase in a pillow structure are open here. Vertical joint surfaces show exemplary cross-sections of the pillows. The outcrop was cleared in 2012.	500 50 × 10	Type: Rock Type , Pillows Type: Meta-Basalt	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Road outcrop Ascher Strasse in Hof		464A006	Yard position	Franconian Forest	This classic outcrop shows a profile through the Ordovician marginal slate series. Concordant diabase layers are incorporated into the slate, which become more frequent from the south-east to the north-west. In the northwest there is a massive diabase. This was quarried in a municipal quarry that is not accessible (Fig. 4).	400 200 × 2	Type: sequence of layers, storage conditions, type of rock Type: slate, meta-basalt	embankment	precious	no protected area
Quarry at the Otterbach		464A007	Yard position	Franconian Forest	Below the federal road bridge is a small abandoned quarry in the medium-grain Keratophyr Gümbels on the Otterbach. The Otterberg (formerly Alsenberg) is one of the two type localities named by Gümbel for the Keratophyr rock.	600 40 × 15	Type: type locality, rock type: meta-trachyte	Quarry	precious	no protected area
Teufelsberg in Hof	more pictures	464R001	Yard position	Franconian Forest	The Teufelsberg forms an impressive 20 m high rock face in the Devonian diabase breccia on the Saale steep slope. On the adjoining plateau there are several old quarries and mining sites. In the past, iron ore was also mined on the northern slope (currently not digested).	35000 350 × 100	Type: rock wall / slope, impact slope, rock type: meta-basalt, tuff / tuffite, iron ore	Rock slope / cliff	precious	Landscape component
Diabase rock at Hofeck Palace		464R002	Yard position	Franconian Forest	The rock exposures below Hofeck Palace consist of diabase pillows and pillow breccias. The tube-like character of the pillows is easy to see here.	100 10 × 10	Type: Pillows, Rock Wall / Slope Type: Meta-Basalt	Rock slope / cliff	precious	Landscape component
Abandoned quarry E from Lausenhof		464A008	Yard position	Münchberger Gneissasse	In the neglectful quarry there is one of the few outcrops in the so-called Rand amphibolite of the Münchberg mass. Caution: the quarry is on a busy main road!	600 40 × 15	Type: type locality, metamorphic structure, rock type: amphibolite	Quarry	precious	no protected area