List of geotopes in Lower Bavaria
The list of geotopes in Niederbayern is a summary of the geotopes in the administrative district of Niederbayern .
The list automatically integrates the following lists of geotopes in Lower Bavarian districts and cities from the article namespace:
- List of geotopes in Landshut
- List of geotopes in Passau
- List of geotopes in the Deggendorf district
- List of geotopes in the district of Dingolfing-Landau
- List of geotopes in the Freyung-Grafenau district
- List of geotopes in the Kelheim district
- List of geotopes in the Landshut district
- List of geotopes in the Passau district
- List of geotopes in the Regen district
- List of geotopes in the Rottal-Inn district
- List of geotopes in the Straubing-Bogen district
This list is incomplete. Some geotopes are unsuitable for publication.
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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Growing stone E by Schönbrunn |
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261R001 |
Landshut position |
Paar-Isar region | On a marl horizon within the northern full gravel, water emerges here. A short but beautiful so-called stone channel has formed at this small layer spring, ie the water flows in a channel made of tuff limestone. Both inorganic and organic processes play a role in the precipitation of the lime dissolved in the water. Spring mosses and various algae and microorganisms are involved in the construction of the channel. | 2 7 × 0 |
Type: Stone gutter, layer source Type: Tufa-lime |
no information | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area | |
Nagelfluhwand on Teufelssteg near Landshut | 261R002 |
Landshut position |
Paar-Isar region | At the Isarleite in Landshut, the northern full gravel is due (Upper freshwater molasse). These are deposits from Miocene river systems. The calcareous gravel is cemented to Nagelfluh walls by limestone precipitation near the edge of the valley. Thanks to their greater stability than steep steps on the slope, they smell out. | 150 30 × 5 |
Type: Rock wall / slope Type: Conglomerate |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Biosphere reserve | ||
Schweinbachtal W from Schweinbach |
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261R003 |
Landshut position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The Schweinbachtal is a typical asymmetrical valley with the type of terrain that often occurs in the tertiary hill country, especially at north-south facing valley cuts. Due to the periglacial overburden, the valley cross-section is clearly asymmetrical with flat slopes exposed to the northeast and steep valley flanks sloping to the southwest. In the lower section of the valley, the original morphology has been changed due to anthropogenic influences (development, water and path construction). | 200000 1000 × 200 |
Type: Asymmetrical Valley Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area | |
Salzdorfer Tal NE of Kumhausen | 261R004 |
Landshut position |
Isar-Inn hill country | Asymmetrical valley with bed springs along the bentonite horizon at 470 m above sea level. The relocation of the stream in the 19th century caused a significant change in the shape of the valley in a short time. | 100000 1000 × 100 |
Type: Asymmetrical Valley, Layer Source Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Southern Isar valley slope (Carossahöhe) in Landshut | 261R005 |
Landshut position |
Paar-Isar region | On the southern slope of the Isar, in the urban area of Landshut, there are no remains of cold-age terraces. The slope is largely laid out in the northern gravel of the Upper Freshwater Molasse. The gravel is partially baked into conglomerate and favor the formation of steep slopes (261R003). Layer sources emerge from marl layers. Side valleys cut the slope as notch valleys (e.g. Bernlocher Schluchtweg), outcrops z. B. on the eastern edge of the city (Äuß. Münchner Str. 99). | 500000 5000 × 100 |
Type: Prallhang, Layerquelle, Härtling Type: Conglomerate |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area |
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Leptynite outcrop at Alten Rieser Strasse (Hacklberg) | 262A002 |
Passau position |
Passau Forest | The street outcrop in the Hacklberg district, City of Passau, near the confluence of Alte Rieser Strasse and Neue Rieser Strasse. It opens up the largest known and accessible leptynite deposit (orthogneiss) in the region (20 m thick!). The leptynite is a medium-grain gneiss with a pronounced streaky parallel texture. Garnet nests often appear. The rock is interpreted as meta-rhyolite. The outcrop is a sample location for age determination. | 10 10 × 1 |
Type: rock type, standard / reference profile type: meta-rhyolite |
embankment | especially valuable | no protected area | ||
Halser Ilzschleife NE by Hofbauer |
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262R001 |
Passau position |
Passau Forest | In the area of Hals (district of Passau) the Ilz has dug into the ground with a large double meander, the loops of which have almost broken through. The double meander lies in the area of a fault zone (secondary pile, running parallel to the pile), on which heavily deformed gneiss (mylonite, pearl gneiss) are present. The rock on the slope W of the castle is open. Part of the Ilz water is diverted at the Ilzstau before the second loop. | 800000 1000 × 800 |
Type: Meander, stream / river course, impact slope Type: Mylonite, gneiss |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area |
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Outcrop on the castle hill in Winzer | 271A001 |
Winemaker position |
Dungau | In the area of the Danube rim fracture there is vintner gneiss, a light gray-green, granular rock with larger feldspar fragments and a blastocataclastic structure. The formerly highly metamorphic pearl gneisses were tectonically sheared and partially recrystallized. The outcrop on Burgberg Winzer is considered a type locality for diaphtoretic rocks in the area. So far, only the plateau has been protected as a natural monument. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Type locality Type: Gneiss |
embankment | precious | Natural monument | ||
Former quarry S of Deggenau (Martinswand) | 271A003 |
Deggendorf position |
Dungau | The pearly gneiss has been heavily metaplastically changed in individual layers, the structure loses its linear structure and becomes nebulitic to granitoid. You can see some discordant granite dikes with an aplitic border as well as relictic biotite gneiss clods and calcium silicates in pearl gneiss. The old quarry wall serves as a climbing garden (= Martinswand), the quarry floor is z. T. used as a storage place. | 1500 150 × 10 |
Type: Rock Type: Gneiss, Granite |
Quarry | significant | Natural park | ||
Gneiss exposure half mile | 271A005 |
Deggendorf position |
Dungau | Pending is pearl gneiss with z. Partly incomplete reconstruction of older migmatic layer gneisses that are partially integrated as smaller clods in the pearl gneiss structure. The formation of pearl gneiss is mainly due to tectonic changes in metamorphic parent rock. The outcrop has overgrown so much that some sections are no longer accessible. | 500 100 × 5 |
Type: Rock type, metamorphic structure Type: Gneiss |
embankment | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quarry E of Flintsbach | 271A006 |
Winemaker position |
Passau Forest | From the formerly exposed profile, only the Kieselnierkalk of the Ortenburg layers (Malm beta) and sponge limestone (Malm alpha) is exposed. Protective rock layers and sandstone slabs (Turon?) Can be found in karst funnels. Formerly coastal sandstones of the Malm Alpha and oolite limestone of the Callov were exposed. The altitude on the western edge of the basement is an argument for the Danube rim break as a relay break. | 8400 140 × 60 |
Type: standard / reference profile, karst chimney, karst crevice Type: limestone |
Quarry | especially valuable | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former Laschinger NE quarry from Padling | 271A007 |
Hunding position |
Front Bavarian Forest | There are diorite clods sitting in the pearl gneiss, which represent the remainder of a larger vein-shaped diorite body. The information provides information on the intrusion mechanism and the relative age of intrusion and metamorphosis. The surrounding pearl gneiss is clearly textured and contains relics of calcium silicate and layer gneisses. | 1750 50 × 35 |
Type: contact, rock type, metamorphic structure Type: diorite, gneiss |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former granite quarries NE of Frauenmühle |
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271A013 |
Metten position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the quarries, the medium-grain Metten facies of the Metten granite massif are exposed. The northern quarry still shows relatively good exposure conditions (partly climbing garden). Various corridors are visible in the walls. The southern fraction (Stbr. Schleifmühle), on the other hand, is already overgrown. A wet biotope is created on the bottom. | 25000 250 × 100 |
Type: Rock Type: Granite |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Former granite quarry N of Laufmühle | 271A014 |
Metten position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The rock, which is largely weathered on the surface, is a coarse-grained, muscovite-bearing central granite of the Metten granite massif. A silting pond lies on the bottom of the quarry. The walls of the quarry are no longer accessible. | 800 40 × 20 |
Type: Rock Type: Granite |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Maxfelsen WSW from Hackermühle |
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271A015 |
Deggendorf position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The rock face made of pearl gneiss is approx. 15 meters high and shows steep layers. Individual blocks of biotite-rich gneiss are integrated into the layer structure. A plaque commemorating the presence of Max II on July 11, 1849 is attached to the rock. | 32 8 × 4 |
Type: Type of rock, rock wall / slope Type: Gneiss |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | |
Road outcrops Ruselstraße SW from Oberglasschleife | 271A016 |
Deggendorf position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In this area the transition from pearl gneiss to homogeneous migmatite (paragranodiorite) can be found, which was formed by anatexis from pearl gneiss. Some of the feldspars are still pearly and the relics of calcium silicate rocks, gneisses and amphibolites have also been adopted. The outcrops have grown very strongly in the meantime. | 1200 300 × 4 |
Type: Rock Type: Gneiss, Diorite |
embankment | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Gneiss exposure on the B533 N from Gneisting | 271A018 |
Hunding position |
Front Bavarian Forest | Gneiss has been cut into the embankment of the B533 near the road bend. A large number of metamorphic structural features can be observed in the outcrop: Almost directionless pearl gneiss in close alternation with gneisses with clearly layered structure, folds and discordances in the layer structure, embedded relic clods, quartz knuckles, veins, low mineralization (pyrite). | 3000 200 × 15 |
Type: Metamorphic structure, type of rock, minerals Type: Gneiss, calcium silicate rock |
embankment | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Granite outcrop on the B533 W from Wannersdorf | 271A019 |
Grattersdorf position |
Front Bavarian Forest | Kaußinger Granite, a fine-grained, biotite-rich granite is cut into the main road. The outcrop shows applitic dikes and inclusions of foreign clods, e.g. B. dioritic lenses. Harness surfaces indicate tectonic stress. The degree of weathering increases towards the surface of the terrain. The granite is buried. The decomposition zones penetrate deep into the fresher rock areas at faults. | 2250 150 × 15 |
Type: Rock Type: Granite, Crystalline Grus |
embankment | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Gravel and sand pit on Forchenhügel NE of Maign | 271A020 |
Aussernzell position |
Passau Forest | The gravel and sand pit opens up early Tertiary river sediments (Pliocene) from an ancient Danube. The river ran here more northerly than today's Danube. The gravels overlay the brown coal Tertiary (Miocene) of the Hengersberger Bucht, which reaches into the crystalline from the west. In the pit, an alternating sequence of quartz-rich gravel and sand is cut, partly recognizable as channel fillings. Halfway up, a conglomerate band (solidified by iron hydroxide) runs through the pit. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: sequence of layers, sediment structures Type: gravel, sand |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Flintsbach brick and lime kiln with limestone quarry | 271G001 |
Winemaker position |
Passau Forest | The focal point of the ensemble, which has been a listed building since 1975, is the furnace building built in 1883 with the original ring furnace. Up until the end of operations in 1968, both bricks and lime were burned here. The raw material for the brick production came from a pit directly to the north of the kiln building, while the limestone to the northeast of it was mined in a quarry (geotope no. 271A006), which until then had been mined for over 1000 years. The technical monument was restored a few years ago and expanded into a brick and lime museum with an open-air area (e.g. brick drying plant, always accessible) and exhibition halls. An educational trail provides additional information with a focus on soil science. | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: Kiln / Brickyard, Lime Kiln, Quarry / Pit Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | Natural park | ||
Mining tracks in Hunding | 271G002 |
Hunding position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The former mining in Hunding (mining symbol in the municipal coat of arms) is the only known mining area in the district of Deggendorf. A silver-bearing lead luster mineralization was mined in a quartz vein. The adjacent rock is pearl gneiss, accompanying minerals of the mineralization include calcite, siderite, zinc blende, pyromorphite, cerussite, pyrite. Mining was first mentioned in 1562. The pits have been open since the end of the 19th century. Show object of the Bavarian Forest Nature Park. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: tunnel, pinge field, minerals Type: vein quartz, vein mineralization , gneiss |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | significant | Natural park | ||
Sauloch Gorge NW of Tattenberg |
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271R001 |
Deggendorf position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The Kerbtal is cut like a gorge up to 200 meters deep in some sections by the strong relief on the southern slope of the Front Bavarian Forest. In the upper section of the valley, on the south-west exposed side of the valley, under periglacial conditions, an extensive sea of boulders was created. T. is still in motion. | 400000 1000 × 400 |
Type: Kerbtal, Blockstrom Type: Gneiss, granite |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Schützinger Berg S from Schützing | 271R002 |
Shovel position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The small summit cliff made of pearl gneiss testifies to the Pleistocene erosion in the periglacial area. A weak block scattering can be found in the vicinity. | 100 10 × 10 |
Type: Ridge Type: Gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Pulpit NW of Nemering | 271R003 |
Shovel position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The flat, only slightly raised summit cliffs made of paragranodiorite (a medium-grain anatectic rock) were created from pearl gneiss. The pulpit closes off a flat mountain spur with a steeper slope to the south. In the vicinity of the summit cliffs there is a mostly tree-covered sea of boulders. | 75 15 × 5 |
Type: rocky dome, sea of rocks Type: granodiorite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Cliff at the Büchelstein W of Kerschbaum | 271R004 |
Grattersdorf position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The summit area of the Bichelstein consists of pearl gneisses that plunge flat to the north. The plateau-like summit breaks off steeply to the south. These imposing summit cliffs are the result of Pleistocene erosion, during which deep tertiary weathering layers were removed down to the solid rock. A wide panoramic view is possible from the small summit plateau. The summit is a popular hang-glider take-off point. | 250 25 × 10 |
Type: Ridge Type: Gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Summit of Vogelsang (Klosterstein) NW of Vogelsang |
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271R005 |
Bernried position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The elongated summit cliff consists of cordierite-bearing pearl gneiss. A larger block field borders to the south. Summit cliff and block field are evidence of the Pleistocene weathering. | 1200 80 × 15 |
Type: rocky hilltop, sea boulder Type: gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Terrace between Niederpöring and Aholming | 271R006 |
Aholming position |
Dungau | Between Niederpöring and Aholming there is a clear, mostly tree-lined terrace edge. The distinctive relief form in the low-relief Gaulandschaft is a worm-glacial to Holocene erosion terrace of the Isar in Riss-Ice Age gravel. East of Alttiefenberg and west of Aholming, the edge traces fossil river meanders (former impact slopes). | 80000 4000 × 20 |
Type: terrace, impact slope Type: gravel |
no information | significant | FFH area, bird sanctuary | ||
Danube high bank between Irlbach and Wischlberg | 271R007 |
Stephansposching position |
Dungau | The recent Danube cuts through cracked glacial high terrace gravel. Due to the expansion of the river, the former bank of the Danube became almost inactive. The slope is graduated again near Wischlburg. At Wischlburg, the edge of the terrace extends into the side valley. | 40000 1000 × 40 |
Type: Impact slope, terrace Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | Landscape component, FFH area, bird sanctuary | ||
Bachtal NW of Wischlburg | 271R008 |
Stephansposching position |
Dungau | An example of the typical form of valley formation in the periglacial area of the Würmglacial and the Holocene: Talgenesis is mainly characterized by extensive erosion of flowing earth in the Würmglacial. In the lower reaches, the valley floor cuts the groundwater table of the high terrace gravel, so that springs emerge on the valley flanks. Stream erosion created low terraces above the valley floor. | 80000 400 × 200 |
Type: Terrace, Constriction Source Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | FFH area, bird sanctuary | ||
Natternberg W from Deggendorf |
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271R009 |
Deggendorf position |
Dungau | It is a relic of the mountain foot surface (pediment surface) of the Bavarian Forest. The Zeugenberg was created by the erosion of the Pleistocene Danube. This also explains the shape and orientation according to the direction of flow and the location of the tectonic structure of the rock. The rock is exposed through several mining sites. | 175000 700 × 250 |
Type: Inselberg / Zeugenberg Type: Mylonite |
no information | significant | Natural monument, FFH area, bird sanctuary | |
Regensburger Stein NW from Oberhirschberg | 271R010 |
Bernried position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The rocky knoll made of pearl gneiss is located on the steep southern slope of the Upper Bavarian Forest. The tertiary weathering crust was eroded in the Pleistocene, especially in exposed areas, and craggy rock forms were created by frost weathering. | 1500 50 × 30 |
Type: Ridge Type: Gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Geiersberg near Deggendorf | 271R011 |
Deggendorf position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The steep western flank of the Geiersberg goes back to a Pleistocene impact slope of the Danube. In small outcrops (e.g. behind the church on the footpath from the cemetery to the Marien-Pilfahrtskirche on Geiersberg) fine-grained, biotite-rich granite is exposed. Perl gneiss can be found in the vicinity of road cuts, some of which is heavily weathered (gneiss substitute). | 100000 500 × 200 |
Type: Impact slope, rock type: Granite, gneiss |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Meander arch Gundelau SE from Niederalteich | 271R012 |
Niederalteich position |
Dungau | The Gundelau represents an exemplary meander curve of the Danube. Built from the central meander body, the accompanying channel and the undercut by a younger river course. This meander arch was still active in the Middle Ages. The arch is traced in the area of the Old Danube by dykes of the flood exposure and is therefore very easy to recognize. | 2800000 2000 × 1400 |
Type: Meander Type: silt, sand, gravel |
no information | precious | no protected area |
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Former Maßendorf gravel pit |
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279A001 |
Loiching position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the former gravel pit, there is northern full gravel (alternation of gravel and sand) with individual marl layers. The outcrop wall shows sedimentation structures such as channels, inclined stratification and erosion discordances. A conspicuous chalky marl horizon extends over the entire excavation wall about 6–7 m above the floor. In a marl lens, which is likely to have been located just below the bottom of the pit that is still accessible today, a species-poor flora was mainly. Remains of a diverse fauna of small mammals, as well as those of fish, mussels, turtles and crocodiles have been found. | 1200 120 × 10 |
Type: Layer sequence, Animal fossils, Vegetable fossils Type: Gravel, Marl |
Gravel pit / sand pit | precious | no protected area | |
Road outcrop near Landau | 279A002 |
Landau on the Isar position |
Dungau | At the road outcrop in Landau, a multi-segmented loess sequence (worm-glacial?) With limestone concretions is exposed over minimum ice age gravel. The uppermost section with gravel and sand containing flowing earth shows late glacial and postglacial deposits. The outcrop is now largely overgrown and partially collapsed. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: conglomerate, clay |
embankment | significant | no protected area | ||
Former clay pit SE from Möding | 279A003 |
Landau on the Isar position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the former brickworks, a 9 m thick loess profile of the crack and Würmglacials was exposed (separated by an interglacial soil formation horizon). The cracked glacial formations are represented by loess loam formed as fossil tundra wet soils, the worm glacial part shows loess and loess loam with basic fluid soils and solifluction discordance. The pit was (temporarily?) Closed in 2001. The sloping walls no longer show any details of the profile. | 4000 200 × 20 |
Type: Sequence of layers, fossil soil Type: Clay |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | significant | no protected area | ||
Schlüpfing gravel pit | 279A005 |
Landau on the Isar position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the former gravel pit, a sequence of layers of northern full gravel is exposed. Gravel and sands are covered by horizons of fine-grained sediments (silt marl) and freshwater limestone. The sequence of loess clay and flowing earth is covered. A part of the outcrop walls has collapsed and a good view of parts of the episode can be seen in relatively fresh outcrops at the north end and at the south end of the pit. A motocross race track has been set up in the pit. | 2400 120 × 20 |
Type: sequence of layers, rock type: gravel, sand, marl |
Gravel pit / sand pit | precious | no protected area | ||
Source at Schellmühle | 279Q001 |
Mamming position |
Isar-Inn hill country | A year-round spring (approx. 10 l / s) rises above the Schellmühle on the steep Isarleite at the foot of the slope within the northern full gravel. Fish ponds are fed with the spring water. Right next to the fenced-in spring niche, gravel partially baked into conglomerate is exposed. The stratified spring probably originates from a water-retaining marl layer within the gravel. | 6 3 × 2 |
Type: Layer source Type: gravel, sand, conglomerate |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area | ||
Steep slope in the Isar valley W of Niederviehbach | 279R001 |
Niederviehbach position |
Paar-Isar region | The partial erosion slope on the southern edge of the Isar valley shows a multitude of individual geomorphological forms: B. deeply incised valleys of side streams, numerous landslides, source horizons z. Some with tufa formation and alluvial cones. The slope lies in the northern full gravel. The source horizons are bound to intermediate limnic freshwater layers. | 700000 7000 × 100 |
Type: Prallhang, Kerbtal, layer source Type: Gravel, limestone, tufa |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Valley of the Mamminger Bach SW of Mamming | 279R002 |
Mamming position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The valley of the Mamminger Baches is an asymmetrical sole valley with a steep east and flat west side. The valley floor is accompanied by a terrace edge on the western edge. Stratified springs bound to marl and freshwater limestone occur on the east side. In its shape and morphogenesis, the valley is an example of secondary valleys of the main water veins in the periglacial area. The formation as an asymmetrical Mulden valley in the Pleistocene was followed by the transformation into a sole valley since the late glacial. | 600000 1500 × 400 |
Type: Asymmetrical valley, sole valley, stratified source Type: gravel, marl, tufa limestone |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Teisbachtal S from Teisbach | 279R003 |
Dingolfing position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The Teisbachtal shows the cross-section of an asymmetrical valley with steep flanks exposed to the west and flat to the east. On the west side there is a stepped terrace from the confluence in the Isar valley to Oberteisbach. Asymmetrical valleys have been formed by different erosion with soil flow in unglaciated areas, mainly along streams running along NS, shaped by the cold climate. Erosion has transformed the valley into a bottom valley in the post-glacial period. | 840000 1200 × 700 |
Type: Asymmetrical Valley Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Growing rock E from Usterling (Johannisfelsen) |
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279R004 |
Landau on the Isar position |
Isar-Inn hill country | Mightiest tufa dam in Bavaria! The impressive stone channel is approx. 35 m long, up to 1.2 m thick and up to 5.4 m high. It was already mentioned by Apian (1579) and depicted on the altarpiece of the Usterlinger church (1520). The Steinerne Rinne lies on a slope that is built up from approx. 20 million year old loose rock of the Upper Freshwater Molasse (OSM). For a long time now, the groundwater has emerged at a point at the boundary between water-bearing gravels and water-retaining marls (calcareous clays). Exact dates for the formation of the tufa formations on the Quellbach are not yet available, but estimates amount to a few thousand years. | 35 35 × 1 |
Type: Stone gutter, layer source Type: Tufa, limestone |
no information | precious | Natural monument, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 19 |
Alluvial fan Rosenau NW from Mamming | 279R006 |
Mamming position |
Paar-Isar region | The alluvial fan Rosenau is a flat, Holocene gravel cone, which lies only slightly above the surrounding terrain, but has hardly any surface contact and is clearly delimited from the surrounding agriculturally used valley floodplain by vegetation (poor grassland). The gravel cone probably belongs to older Holocene gravel sequences that were no longer reached by later high water sales. Part of the ballast is disturbed by the railway line and old gravel pits. * | 15000 150 × 100 |
Type: Alluvial fan Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | Nature reserve, FFH area |
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Former serpentinite quarry W from Guglöd | 272A004 |
Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | In this small quarry, the serpentinite known as black gravel was formerly mined into road and railway gravel. The occurrence of this ultra-basic rock (very rare in the Bavarian Forest) within the gneiss is probably linked to scaling from greater depths in the area of shear zones. The former gravel quarry now serves as a geological exhibit in the national park. The serpentinite scale continues on the opposite side of the street. | 140 20 × 7 |
Type: Rock Type: Serpentinite |
Quarry | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Former sand pit in the Reschwassertal northwest of Mauth | 272A006 |
Schönbrunn forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The (former) geological demonstration object in the Bavarian Forest National Park consists largely of buried granite in which sackcloth gneiss clods are embedded. The pit is almost completely overgrown and therefore the exposure conditions are now relatively poor. Clearly visible, however, are the firmer granite parts, which weather like a sack of wool from the more strongly decomposed crystalline gravel. | 300 30 × 10 |
Type: Rock type, wool sacking Type: Granite, crystalline gravel , gneiss |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Outcrops between Innernzell and Mutzenwinkel | 272A007 |
Innernzell position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The transformation of pearl gneiss into granitoid anatectic rock (palitic rock) is here in places opened up over a longer stretch of blocks and pending. Various phenomena can be seen: pegmatoid streaks, the whereabouts of relict clods of gneisses, amphibolite bodies. The best outcrops are directly north of Innernzell (west of the bridge). | 6000 300 × 20 |
Type: rock type, contact, metamorphic structure Type: gneiss, anatexite, mylonite |
embankment | significant | Natural park | ||
Rost quarry on Hartberg N of Thurmansbang | 272A010 |
Thurmansbang position |
Passau Forest | In the (former?) Granite quarry, granites from the Fürstenstein intrusive area were mined. This is where the so-called Saldenburg granite occurs, a porphyry granite with tabular potassium feldspars. In this quarry, the otherwise coarse-grained base material is somewhat smaller-grained, unlike the main type. Road building materials such as paving stones and curbs, as well as boundary and stone stones were made from the granite. Weathering profiles are exposed in the edge area. | 25000 250 × 100 |
Type: rock type, soil profile type: granite, granodiorite, granite gravel |
Quarry | significant | Natural park | ||
Road outcrops N from Garham (upgraded route B12) | 272A012 |
Röhrnbach position |
Passau Forest | The two road cuts (new line B12) cut Mylonite south of the pile line. In the northern outcropping, palites with different degrees of deformation are exposed, which are penetrated by a granite dike (deformed to flame granite). In the southern section through the dust hump, the rocks are less deformed. Metatectic gneiss with amphibolite clods penetrated by numerous passages are exposed there. | 2500 500 × 5 |
Type: rock type, metamorphic structure, fault type: mylonite, gneiss, aplite |
embankment | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Sand pit near the Brennfilz SW from Haidmühle | 272A013 |
Frauenberger and Duschlberger forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Haidmühler granite opens up the small sand pit, which apart from a few rounded bodies is decomposed by weathering and can be broken down as sand. However, the rock is still in the bond, so that the structural features have not been lost. Vertical structures (e.g. crevices, passages) only bend upwards in the direction of the slope. This hooking is due to soil flow in the permafrost soil during the cold periods. | 100 10 × 10 |
Type: rock type, solifluction phenomenon, soil profile type: granite gravel , granite |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | ||
Road outcrops on the St2132, NE of Grüb | 272A014 |
Grafenau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | On the state road west of Grafenau, the northern edge of the shear zone of the Bavarian pile is exposed. The cordierite-sillimanite-potassium feldspar-gneiss varieties are tectonized differently: partly proto- to ultramylonitic, partly hardly deformed, partly cataclastic. In addition to metatectic streaky structures with leukosomes, there are also massive, granular structures. The massive, grainy cordierite-sillimanite-potassium feldspar gneisses are mostly rich in quartz or silicified, often also cataclastically overprinted, their weathered surfaces show a characteristic pearly appearance that is not recognizable in the fresh break. Again and again, cm to dm thick ultramylonites appear. In places, dm-thick, light-gray quartz-gneiss banks have been preserved as spared areas in mylonitized gneiss as well as dm- to m-sized calcium silicate rock layers and boudins. Thin layers of leucocratic gneisses with biotite garnet aggregates are rare. | 4000 400 × 10 |
Type: rock type, fault, metamorphic structure Type: mylonite, ultramylonite, gneiss |
embankment | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Rocks at Hirschthalmühle on the Große Ohe | 272A017 |
Spiegelau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | To the west of the bridge on the Große Ohe, Orthogneiss is exposed several times on the path leading up to Oberkreuzberg. The fine to medium-grained rocks show a tight layer structure of quartz-feldspar and biotite-rich layers. Zircon dating of neighboring occurrences indicates a sub-ordovician age of the igneous parent rocks. The rock clearances are southwest of the path, where the orthogneiss forms a distinct rib. The foliation dips in a northerly direction. The intensely folded rock appears only slightly fissured in a north-south direction. To the east of the bridge, an orthogneiss ridge that breaks off sharply to the south runs up the slope over a length of about 80 m, which, despite its walls of up to 6 m high, is difficult to see from the path. Here, in places, sharply developed contacts are open. The mostly homogeneous orthogneiss is interspersed in this area with quartz-feldspar streaks (presumably leucosomes) up to 1.5 m thick and gneiss clods. | 3000 100 × 30 |
Type: Metamorphic structure, type of rock, rock wall / slope, fold / trough / saddle Type: Gneiss |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Mylonite profile in the street cut W of Grafenau | 272A018 |
Grafenau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | On the state road St2132 is one of the best profiles through the shear zone of the Bayer. Stake with various tectonites and the transition from ultramylonites to dark diatexites. The profile includes from S to N rocks of the Palit complex, granite and gneisses, the different. Show deformation types: from hardly deformed to protomylonitic to ultramylonitic, as well as z. T. cataclastic. The road cut consists of two large outcrops, up to 30 m high, separated by a WE-oriented depression. In the N-part there are brownish to reddish, alternately strongly diaphthoritic mylonites, whose light color and porphyroclastic structure indicate a granitoid parent rock. The Mylonitic foliation falls steeply to Saiger after NNW or SSW. After S, the rock is more compact and massive due to secondary silicification, with a few cm thick, spindle-shaped stretched to ribbon-like quartz lenses, accompanied by hydrothermal reddening. Again and again a few dm-powerful ultramylonitic zones occur. | 0 not specified |
Type: Metamorphic structure, fault Type: Mylonite, Ultramylonite, Migmatite |
embankment | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Outcrop on the Wolfsteiner Ohe below Fürsteneck Castle | 272A019 |
Fürsteneck position |
Passau Forest | There are several outcrops of migmatic gneiss (light diatexite), which contain characteristic clods of dark metamorphic rocks, directly on the road below Fürsteneck Castle (Triftsteig hiking trail). | 100 50 × 2 |
Type: metamorphic structure, rock type: migmatite |
embankment | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | ||
Grübenfeld Grüben am Rachel | 272G001 |
Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The small-scale surface forms of this pit field with pits, ditches and elongated and conical hills go back to anthropogenic activity. Historical sources indicate the exploitation of a soap gold deposit. However, quartz pebbles may also have been extracted later for the nearby glassworks. | 120000 400 × 300 |
Type: Soap laundry, Pinge / nfeld Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | National park, ground monument, landscape protection area | ||
Quartz mining pits on the Katzberg | 272G002 |
Neuschönau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | From 1803 to 1874, quartz was extracted in the pits as a raw material for the surrounding glassworks (REINER et al. 1995). The pits are 80 m east of a signposted hiking trail on the Katzberg, but can only be recognized through the slopes of the heaps and some rock clearances in the cordierite-sillimanite-potassium feldspar gneiss. There are a total of 5 abandoned pits of up to 35 × 15 × 9 m in size. Some of the imposing trenches are up to 5 m deep and 25 m long. There is no information in the vein quartz mined here, but the quartz is found as reading stones in the surrounding heaps. The side rock (cordierite-silimanite-gneiss) is exposed in small cliffs and blocks. The numerous quartz fragments that can be found in and around the pits are white to gray-white in color, hardly any feldspar and few adjacent rock fragments. The pits consist of what is now a funnel-shaped mining area and the extensive dumps in front of it. They are important historical evidence of regional raw material extraction. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: Pinge / nfeld Type: vein quartz, cordierite-sillimanite gneiss |
Ping | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Gold washing area near Riedlhütte (Grübenfeld) | 272G003 |
Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Pit fields as they are z. B. occur here on the southern edge of the Great Felt, are the remains of a former gold mining. The gold was obtained from enrichment zones, the so-called soaps, in the area of river deposits. For this purpose, the gold-bearing gravel had to be washed out. What remains are characteristic terrain forms such as funnel-shaped pits and trenches, mostly in connection with canal systems. A gold washing area was set up by the community on this grave field. | 50000 500 × 100 |
Type: Soap Laundry Type: Gravel |
Ping | significant | National park, ground monument, landscape protection area | ||
Medieval melting furnace in Hochbuchet SE von Saldenburg | 272G004 |
Saldenburg position |
Passau Forest | There is a trench more than 50 m long and 5 m deep in the forest, but no heaps. The outcrops show an approx. 3 m thick, very fine-grained rhyolite vein (alkali aplite) in coarse-grained Saldenburg granite. Most of the material is said to have been used more recently for ballast production for the expansion of the B85. In addition to the dismantling, an old kiln was excavated, the interior of which is made of rhyolite. The firing temperatures were so high that the rock was melted. By means of a C14 analysis, the operating time of the furnace could be dated between 1280 and 1460. It will not have been a glass furnace, as no glass remains were found in the vicinity. However, there is a presumption that it was a frying furnace in which the coarse mixture of flux, lime and quartz was sintered prior to glass production. The furnace of an alchemist is also suspected. | 250 50 × 5 |
Type: ironworks / smelting furnace, type of rock, scraping type: rhyolite, granite |
Schurf | precious | Natural park | ||
Grübenfeld on the Cold Vltava | 272G005 |
Frauenberger and Duschlberger forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The well-preserved Grübenfeld stretches from the Kiesau over the Marderau to the Gruben site for 2.5 km along the Cold Vltava. The historical traces of gold mining are referred to as pit fields, which leave a restless relief of funnel pits, trenches, hills, gullies and moats in the landscape. They testify to the washing out of gold flakes from the river sediments (gravel, sand). Quartz gravel was later extracted from these areas. | 1000000 2500 × 400 |
Type: Soap Laundry, Pinging Field Type: Gravel, Sand |
no information | precious | Soil monument, nature park | ||
Abandoned mine on Redelberg | 272G006 |
Schönberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The mine near Rendelmoos is already mentioned by Flurl (1792) as abandoned and derelict. From around 1580, the search for silver, copper and lead in the pile quartz was unsuccessful. The buried mouth hole with a dump in front of it was located in 2001 by ENE Hartmannsreit am Redelberg. | 0 not specified |
Type: Adit Type: Vein mineralization |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Schrazlgang under the Klessinger inn in Hundsruck | 272G007 |
Saldenburg position |
Passau Forest | The Schrazlgang in the basement of the inn is open to the public. Its exploration is explained with photos, plans and a video. First mentioned in a document in 1449, the Erdstall is said to be around 1000 years old. The corridor in the weathered Saldenburg granite shows discoloration from iron heels on crevice cracks or along weathered fronts. The Schrazlgang is recorded as a ground monument (medieval - early modern earth stable) (monument no. D-2-7246-0158). | 0 not specified |
Type: Rock Cellar Type: Granite |
Rock cellar | precious | Soil monument, nature park | ||
Funnel pits and pit field for gold mining near Eisenbernreut | 272G008 |
Perlesreut position |
Passau Forest | Extraction pits and soap mounds in a forest along the Eisenbernreuter Bach are traces of what is believed to be medieval gold mining. A residual gold soap was cultivated and washed out - an originally primary gold mineralization enriched by profound weathering in a Moldanubian diatexite. The angular gold grains that were washed here have practically not been transported. The property is under special protection as a ground monument (monument no. D-2-7246-0160). | 250000 500 × 500 |
Type: Soap laundry, Pinge / nfeld Type: Gneiss gravel |
Ping | precious | Soil monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Blockstrom Gsteinet E from Waldkirchen | 272R001 |
Waldkirchen position |
Passau Forest | The boulders were mostly exposed postglacial through spring streams and rainwater emerging in the area. The block sea is a geomorphological formation that is typical for higher elevations in the low mountain range. | 17600 220 × 80 |
Type: Block Stream Type: Granite |
block | significant | Natural monument, nature park | ||
Saußbachleite S from Waldkirchen |
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272R002 |
Waldkirchen position |
Passau Forest | In the steep-walled Kerbtal (in some places Kerbsohlental) the solifluction covers were washed out down to the coarse material, which remains in the form of a large number of blocks in the stream bed. | 180000 900 × 200 |
Type: Kerbtal, Blockstrom Type: Granite |
block | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Buchberger Leite NE from Buchberg |
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272R003 |
Hohenau position |
Passau Forest | Over a length of approx. 2 km, in the middle of a canyon-like, over 100 m deep valley, one of the most beautiful outcrops through the Bavarian pile can be found: various stages of mylonitization, from largely undeformed to ultramylonite, are exposed. In the Buchberger Leite it is easy to understand that the Bavarian stake does not always have to be quartz and that it can have very different morphological effects. The large number of waterfalls is striking. | 1000000 5000 × 200 |
Type: ravine, fault, layer sequence Type: cataclasite, granite, vein quartz |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 26 |
Steinernes Meer at Plöckenstein NE of Riedelsbach |
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272R004 |
Pleckensteiner Wald position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The sea of blocks consists of several parts. Boulder seas are typical formations of the periglacial area, higher altitudes and areas of stronger radiation are preferred. | 1250000 1000 × 1250 |
Type: Blockmeer Type: Granite |
block | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Wackelstein SE from Loh |
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272R005 |
Saldenburg position |
Passau Forest | The summit cliff of the small hilltop shows some blocks of Saldenburg granite with heavy wool sack weathering. The rock joints are so widened that only individual, completely separate blocks with a small contact area remained of the rock tower. The so-called rocking stone has such a narrow contact surface that it can be made to rock by human strength. | 12 4 × 3 |
Type: wool sack formation, rocky dome Type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | |
Rock summit at Steinmannbiegel in Draxlschlag | 272R006 |
Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The rock of the summit cliff, made of metatectic cordierite-sillimanite-potassium feldspar gneisses, is heavily folded. Molten material of quartz and feldspar can be seen in layers. The elongated rock crest has broken up into individual blocks. The gneisses show different, partly streaky metatectic, partly massive diatectic structures, in places they have small grenades. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: rocky dome, metamorphic structure, rock type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Cliff at the Draxlschlag construction yard | 272R007 |
Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The rock cliffs on the plateau spur lined with spring horizons consist of metatectic cordiertite-sillimanite-potassium feldspar gneisses. They show various structures, some streaky metatectical, some massive diatectic structures, and in places they carry small grenades. The area used to be the sports field. Today there is the construction yard of the community (material storage area). | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: rocky dome, metamorphic structure, rock type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, nature park | ||
High stone in Draxlschlag | 272R008 |
Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The Hohe Stein in Draxlschlag is the continuation of object 272R006 to the northwest. Anatectic cordierite gneiss is also open here. Since the actual cliff is on private property, the outcrops are not directly accessible. The gneisses show different, partly streaky metatectic, partly massive diatectic structures, in places they have small grenades. | 250 25 × 10 |
Type: Crag, type of rock, metamorphic structure Type: Cordierite-Sillimanite-Gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural park | ||
Wollsackbildung W from Frauenberg | 272R009 |
Haidmühle position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The impressive summit cliff consists of coarse-grained crystal granite (Haidmühler granite). The pronounced weathering of wool sacks and mattresses is evidence of the Pleistocene erosion, in which a tertiary weathering bark was removed down to the solid rock. | 160 20 × 8 |
Type: wool sack formation, rocky dome Type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Rock slope Gsteinet E from Hobelsberg | 272R010 |
Grainet position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The strong block sprinkling of the slopes results from the Pleistocene frost weathering and drift on solifluction covers. The cliff and boulders are made of anatectic cordierite gneiss. | 450 30 × 15 |
Type: rocky dome, block flow Type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Felskuppe SE from Haidmühle | 272R012 |
Haidmühle position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The narrow, surface-parallel fissures of the coarse-grained crystal granite causes the pita-like weathering form. The cliffs are built over with a chapel and a carillon. | 300 30 × 10 |
Type: wool sack formation, rocky dome Type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area | ||
Pulpit in the Bavarian Forest National Park by Glashütte |
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272R013 |
Hohenau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The summit cliff is located on a hiking trail and serves as a lookout point. The result of Pleistocene erosion processes is mattress weathering, which the coarse-grained, fibrous orthogneiss shows. The flat blocks and plates correspond to the fracture and fibrous rock structure. There are also some cellular honeycomb weathering structures on the NE side. | 320 40 × 8 |
Type: Ridge Type: Gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | National park, natural monument, landscape protection area | |
Kleinalmeyerschloss NW of Mauth | 272R014 |
Schönbrunn forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The formation of these steep granite cliffs is the result of increased Pleistocene erosion in the periglacial area. Weakly textured structure and platy segregation of the crystal granite lead to mattress-like weathered bodies. The cliffs can only be reached via abandoned paths (core area of the national park!). | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: rock castle, wool sack formation Type: granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | National park, natural monument, landscape protection area | ||
Großalmeyerschloss NW of Mauth |
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272R015 |
Schönbrunn forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The rock cliffs of the Großalmeyerschloss are made of older Finsterau crystal granite. The formation of this rock exposure is the result of increased Pleistocene erosion in the periglacial area. The rock cliff is a geological show object in the Bavarian Forest National Park (explanatory panel on periglacial weathering in the ascent). | 2500 50 × 50 |
Type: Crag, wool sack formation Type: Granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | National park, natural monument, landscape protection area | |
Sea of blocks on the Lusen |
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272R016 |
Neuschönau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The entire summit area of the Lusen is a large exposed sea of boulders. This largest sea of boulders in the Bavarian Forest National Park was created by the Pleistocene erosion of the weathering bark and the decomposition of the surrounding rock (fine to medium-grain granite), mainly through frost weathering. The blocks in the upper area disintegrated on the spot, without any major transport down the slope. In this way, corridors can be traced across the sea of blocks. | 200000 400 × 500 |
Type: Blockmeer Type: Granite, Gneiss |
block | especially valuable | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 32 |
Glacier cut in the Reschwassertal NW from Schustersäge | 272R017 |
Schönbrunn forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The block made from older Finsterau crystal granite has a drum-lined rounding as well as cuts and scratches on the sides. The erratic boulder is a geological exhibit in the Bavarian Forest National Park (explanatory panel). | 4 3 × 2 |
Type: Glacier Cut, Boulder Type: Granite |
block | precious | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Teufelsloch NE from Waldhäuser | 272R018 |
Waldhäuser forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | In the gorge-like, narrow Kerbtal of the upper reaches, the slopes and the valley floor are covered by a sea of boulders. Here the stream flows invisibly under the blocks. Down the valley there is a widening of the Kerbtal, the block spreading becomes more patchy, the blocks are z. T. only tilted by the queue and little transported. In the steepest locations, the block formation seems to persist recently. | 32000 400 × 80 |
Type: Kerbtal, Blockmeer Type: Granite |
block | precious | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Rachelsee Kar E from the Great Rachel |
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272R019 |
Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The Rachelsee cirque with its steep, approx. 300 m high cirque walls is the largest and best accessible cirque in the national park. The cirque was divided into two niches (Rachelsee + Alter See), the firne ice of which united to form a glacier. | 960000 800 × 1200 |
Type: Kar Type: moraine, gneiss |
Slope crack / rock wall | especially valuable | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Bärenriegelkar NW of Finsterau | 272R020 |
Mauther Forst position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The cirque of the Schwarzbach Glacier has a distinctive shape. The Kar walls are over 200 meters high, the former Kar moraine lake has silted up. Today the Karboden is occupied by a transitional moor, which is traversed by some tributaries and headwaters of the Great Schwarzbach. | 80000 400 × 200 |
Type: Kar Type: Moraine |
no information | precious | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Moraine walls SE of the Great Rachel | 272R021 |
Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The wall moraines of the southern Rachel Glacier, the lateral moraines of the glaciers of the Alten-See-Kares, the Rachelsee-Kares and the Hochgfeicht-Karoides unite here to form two large medium moraine ranges. Side, front and middle moraines form numerous walls, the exact definition and parallelization of the retreat stages z. T. is not yet possible. Ice Age hiking trail with display boards of the national park. | 12000 1200 × 10 |
Type: End (wall) moraine Type: Moraine |
no information | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Stake on the Thomasleite S in Kapfham | 272R022 |
Grafenau position |
Passau Forest | The outcrop is accessible from Kapfham via the dirt road, at the end of which there is a parking lot for hikers. The rock ridge runs roughly in an east-west direction. In the east, the rocks consist almost exclusively of gray to beige-gray quartz vein breccia of the Bavarian pile, which is quite compact despite its narrow fissures due to secondary silicification. In the W, the rock ridge consists mainly of ultramylonite, which is heavily silicified or interspersed with sharply defined quartz streaks. The outcrop is accompanied by pile slate in the north, and old mining in ultramylonite (whet slate?) On the SE edge. A small quarry (quartz quarry) is located on the signposted historical hiking trail of the Ringelai community. | 8800 110 × 80 |
Type: hard rock, rock dome, quarry / pit Type: vein quartz, ultramylonite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Augrub E post | 272R023 |
Schönberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The indistinct hardening train from quartz gang breccia of the Bavarian pile between the Augrub and the Kehre bei der Quetsch shows some old, partly filled quartz mining sites. The quartz vein breccia is intensely fissured and often disintegrates in small pieces. There is also a recultivated dump with industrial glass waste from the nearby, former glassworks. Pile quartz is best to be found in the two larger pits that are not partially accessible to the public. | 112000 1400 × 80 |
Type: Hard rock , quarry / pit Type: Vein quartz, ultramylonite |
Slope crack / rock wall | inferior | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Summit cliffs on the Dreisesselberg |
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272R024 |
Neureichenau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The summit area of the Dreisesselberg is occupied by a group of imposing rock castles. The best known are the Dreisesselfels and the Hochstein, both of which are accessed by steps. The rock exposures show a well-banked granite with a medium to coarse-grained base mass. The weathering could attack the dividing surfaces and created the typical appearance of wool sack weathering. Loose block fields can be found in the vicinity of the rock castles. | 50000 500 × 100 |
Type: rock castle, wool sack formation, rock type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 58 |
Steinklamm S from Spiegelau |
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272R025 |
Spiegelau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | To the south of Spiegelau, the Große Ohe leaves the tertiary base trunk area. There it has cut deeply into the landscape in the form of a V-valley through fluvio-glacial and fluvial erosion. In the course of the so-called stone gorge, the river overcomes a multitude of small waterfall steps. In the lower area, in a gorge-like section, a diverse treasure trove of fluvial erosion can be observed in the gneiss rock bed. B. Flow channels, pools, whirlpool holes, smoothing. | 20000 1000 × 20 |
Type: Kerbtal Type: Cordierite-Sillimanite-Gneiss, calcium silicate rock |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Landscape protection area | |
Hessenstein SW of Klingenbrunn | 272R026 |
Eppenschlag position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The summit area of the Hessenstein consists of conspicuously coarse-grained gneiss, which forms an imposing summit cliff with very advanced wool sack weathering. Weathering, which mainly attacks the edges and progresses along dividing surfaces, gives the rocks the typical rounded shapes of wool sacks. The coarse-grained gneiss is garnet-bearing. | 4500 150 × 30 |
Type: rocky dome, wool sack formation Type: Gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Ginghartinger Bach E from Ginghartinger Mühle | 272R027 |
Thurmansbang position |
Passau Forest | On the bottom of the valley through which the Ginghartinger Bach flows, individual, large blocks of crystal granite (Saldenburg granite, sometimes> 5 m³) lie. The blocks of this loose block current, through which the Ginghartinger Bach flows, testify to extensive soil flow in the periglacial area during the cold period. The blocks have reached their current position as hiking blocks. | 25000 500 × 50 |
Type: Solifluction phenomenon, brook / river course Type: Clay, granite |
no information | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Stone church NNE from Entschenreuth |
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272R028 |
Thurmansbang position |
Passau Forest | In the entire area there are numerous rock clearances with heavy wool sack weathering. During the Tertiary the rock was deeply weathered. Only in the area of more compact granite domes could the weathering not progress so quickly. During the Quaternary, the weathering coverings were removed. Only the intact rock areas remained. The rock ensemble of rounded granite blocks at the stone church forms small caves, niches and rock alleys. | 1000 40 × 25 |
Type: wool sack formation, rocky dome Type: granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Spiritual stone NW of Ringelai |
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272R029 |
Grafenau position |
Passau Forest | On the Geistlichen Stein several imposing rock cliffs, which protrude up to 40 m from the slope, allow a beautiful view to SW into the valley basin on Ringelai. The rocks of granitic-granodioritic dark diatexites (Palite: tectonically deformed rocks of the mylonite zone in the vicinity of the fault zone of the pile) show striking wool sack weathering. The rock here has a granitic habit. Numerous large feldspar crystals swim in a coarse-grained matrix. | 600 40 × 15 |
Type: Rock tower / needle, wool sack formation Type: Migmatite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Abrahamsfilz high moor near Theresienreuth | 272R030 |
Leopoldsreuter forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The Abrahamfilz is a high moor up to 6 m thick with a large area of abandoned peat in the center. In the east there is an open raised bog area, in the west part is wooded (afforestation and bog forest). At the edges of the peat pit, up to 2 m high peat profiles can be seen. | 200000 500 × 400 |
Type: raised bog, type of layers : peat |
Open pit | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | ||
Rock hiking area in the Bavarian Forest National Park W of Mauth |
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272R031 |
Schönbrunn forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | In the area of the rock hiking area in the Bavarian Forest National Park, the entire area around the Kleine Kanzel is littered with gneiss cliffs and blocks. South of the Kleiner Kanzel on the hiking trail is a beautiful outcrop in heavily crinkled metatectic to anatectic cordierite gneiss with inclusions of calcium silicate rock. Today's morphological appearance is the result of the Pleistocene erosion of the weathering cover and the associated rock exposure. | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: group of rocks, type of rock, metamorphic structure Type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss, calcium silicate rock |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Diorite cliffs on Garsleite SE von Kollberg | 272R032 |
Röhrnbach position |
Passau Forest | Almost all of the numerous diorite cliffs in the forest have an oriented, sloping structure of dividing surfaces into the slope. The dark diorites show light feldspar crystals and biotite nests in a fine-grained to dense matrix. Numerous bright aplites as corridors or irregularly shaped bodies have penetrated the rock both concordantly and discordantly. | 12500 250 × 50 |
Type: Group of rocks, type of rock, storage conditions Type: diorite, aplite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Stelzerbach NE of the Stelzermühle | 272R033 |
Waldkirchen position |
Passau Forest | Below the street to the Stelzermühle you can see a classic meandering loop of the Stelzerbach. On the rebound slope at the entrance to a side stream, a soil profile is exposed through the tertiary / quaternary weathering cover above the crystalline. Above completely decomposed crystalline there is a layer of rubble as well as sand and clay in which crystalline chunks swim. The formations are intensely colored yellow. To the north the stream shows many meander loops. | 200000 2000 × 100 |
Type: Meander, impact slope, soil profile Type: Crystalline gravel, sand, clay |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | ||
Summit cliff High Saxony W of Grafenau | 272R034 |
Grafenau position |
Passau Forest | The summit of the High Saxony is formed by a summit cliff made of granitic-granodioritic dark diatexites with large potassium feldspar crystals with almost vertical walls. At the bottom there is a block field. Today's morphology is the result of Pleistocene erosion during which the tertiary weathering cover was removed and more compact rock areas were exposed. The rock cliffs and blocks are heavily overgrown throughout. | 240 30 × 8 |
Type: rocky dome, sea of rocks Type: migmatite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
The Wolfsteiner Ohe flows into the Ilz near Fürsteneck | 272R035 |
Fürsteneck position |
Passau Forest | Narrow gorge with exposed rocks, easily accessible by hiking trails. A light-colored diatexite is exposed that contains metabasite clods and is penetrated by a dacite duct. A younger rhyolite dike is also exposed at several points along the way. | 10000 200 × 50 |
Type: gorge, rock wall / slope, contact type: anatexite, dacite, rhyolite |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Rocks at the Steinbühl summit S of Neudorf | 272R036 |
Grafenau position |
Passau Forest | In the summit area of the Steinbühl there is a rib made of Palit, which has disintegrated into a small sea of blocks. The summit itself is formed by a rocking stone created by the weathering of wool sacks. The Palit is extremely mylonitized, which is partly easy to recognize from the blocks. | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: hardness, block sea, wool sack formation, metamorphic structure Type: gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Natural park | ||
Erdstall (Schrazelgang) in Waldkirchen | 272G009 |
Waldkirchen position |
Passau Forest | Immediately next to parking lot P3 (Jandelsbrunner Straße) in Waldkirchen there is an earth stables, which was discovered in the construction of the parking lot and partially destroyed in the process. The two remaining parts are the rearmost parts of the entire system, which originally consisted of three side arms (Fig. 4, from: The Erdstall 13) They were hand-cut in the heavily buried Hauzenberg-Hutthumer granite without heavy equipment, which can be seen particularly well on the face of the left arm (Fig. 3). The total length preserved is about 16 meters. Further Erdststall, they are also known as Schrazelgang, are located in the urban area of Waldkirchen. However, these are only accessible via the cellars of private houses. The property at parking lot P3, on the other hand, is accessible to everyone as part of city tours. Information about the building office in the town hall (Rathausplatz 1) or the city archive in the community center (Ringmauerstraße 14). Both the exact time of construction and the actual purpose of the systems have not yet been clarified with certainty. The geotope is under special protection as a ground monument (monument no. D-2-7247-0188). | 16 16 × 1 |
Type: rock cellar Type: granite, granite gravel |
Rock cellar | precious | Soil monument, nature park | ||
Ochsenfels W of the Saußmühle | 272R037 |
Waldkirchen position |
Passau Forest | The rock clearance Ochsenfels am Saßberg near Saußmühle consists of solid, medium-grain Hauzenberg-Hutthumer granite. The rock face is officially used as a climbing rock. Since the Ochsenfels plateau has a late medieval castle stables, the ditch of which is still very well preserved, the area is under special protection as a ground monument (monument no. D-2-7247-0021). | 450 15 × 30 |
Type: Rock Tower / Needle Type: Granite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Soil monument, landscape protection area, nature park |
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Flügelsberg near Meihern |
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273A001 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The rock spur shows reef dolomites of the Middle Malm, which are cut in the top and overlaid by thin-banked dolomitic limestone of the Malm Epsilon. The stratified limestone shows a connection between the stratified facies basins of Dietfurt and Painten (located between reefs) over the Speckelsberger Canal. A thin bank of conglomerates at the base of the stratified limestone indicates submarine erosion in the canal. | 1600 80 × 20 |
Type: Discordance, rock type, layer sequence, rock tower / needle Type: dolomite stone, limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Former quarry N of Jachenhausen | 273A002 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | In the former quarry on the western edge of the Paintner Plattenkalkwanne, Plattenkalke from the lower Malm Zeta has been mined for use as roof panels since the 19th century. After the closure in the 1980s, the quarry was largely backfilled. There are only a few small outcrops left. Characteristic for the sequence of layers in Jachenhausen were the crooked layers - sliding folds that had arisen in submarine landslides. Some important fossil finds have been made in the quarry. While fossils can still be found, the Krumme Lagen are no longer accessible, apart from sparse hints and remnants. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: Animal Fossils, Sedimentary Structures Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former Lime Kiln W quarry from Bad Abbach | 273A005 |
Bad Abbach position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The break opens up dolomitized reef limestone, overlaid with an undulating transgression surface by Regensburg green sandstone. The rocks are criss-crossed by vertical fissures. In karst crevices there are gray sands of the lower Cretaceous protective rock layers. | 900 90 × 10 |
Type: Discordance, sequence of layers Type: Dolomite stone |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Former quarry ENE from Netzstall | 273A007 |
Painten position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The bank limestone (below) and Kieselkalke and plate silex (above) in the small quarry already described by ROLL (1940) belong to the Torleite formation (Malm Epsilon 1 + 2). The bank limestone represents the normal form of the Torleite formation and is today - named after this outcrop - referred to as the Netzstall subformation (formerly the subemela zone), while the Kieselkalke and plate silex belong to the Arnstorf subformation (formerly the setatus zone). The quarry has overgrown today. And the wall, which has been open for more than 80 years, has already fallen into disrepair. Where it is still accessible, it has dangerous overhangs. so that there is a risk of falling. Therefore this exposure should only be viewed from the street! | 30 15 × 2 |
Type: Type locality, Layer sequence, Animal fossils Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area | ||
Silicified layers of Reinhausen NE from Kelheim | 273A008 |
Frauenforst position |
Southern Franconian Alb | In the area of the summit at height 495, ancient tertiary silicification occurs in Reinhausen layers (Unterturon). The gray, hard rock shows few primary rock features. On a nearly 1 m high cliff, however, layer joints can be seen relictly (outcrop overgrown). In the area there are some individual blocks of silicified rocks, so-called Kallmünzer. Both the timing and the process of pebbles have not yet been satisfactorily clarified. | 250 25 × 10 |
Type: Rock type, relic rock Type: sand-lime brick |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | no protected area | ||
Former quarries E from Kelheimwinzer | 273A009 |
Kelheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | There are some very dilapidated old quarries on the slope. Upcoming are Jura limestone, overlaid by a 3–5 meter thick Schotternagelfluh. The gravel is mainly made up of alpine gravel, along with layers of shardy to rounded Jura limestone. It is a testimony to the Old Pleistocene course of the Danube. Since the foot of the embankment is heavily overgrown and difficult to walk on, the outcrops are hardly accessible. | 360 120 × 3 |
Type: Discordance, Terrace Type: Conglomerate, Limestone |
Quarry | precious | FFH area | ||
Former quarry on the Teufelsfelsen SW of Alkofen | 273A010 |
Bad Abbach position |
Southern Franconian Alb | In the quarry, Jurassic limestone from the Kelheim facies as well as Regensburg's lower green sandstones are exposed. Deep crevices and caves can be seen in the limestone, which were filled with precenomaniac and cenomaniac sediments during the transgression. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: sequence of layers, discordance, karst chimney, karst crevice Type: limestone, sandstone |
Quarry | significant | Natural monument | ||
Former quarries at Mühlberg SE from Dantschermühle | 273A011 |
Bad Abbach position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The old quarries at the Dantschermühle show the most comprehensive chalk profile in the Kelheim district: Regensburg Formation, Eibrunn Formation (with the micro-palaeontologically proven Cenoman-Turon boundary) and Reinhausen subformation of the Winzerberg Formation. Only the green sandstone is easily accessible, while the erosion-sensitive overlapping layers have largely slipped and rolled over. The aim of mining was the massive Lower Green Sandstone of the Regensburg Formation, which shows clear signs of processing. | 2400 80 × 30 |
Type: Type locality, animal fossils, layer sequence Type: sand-lime brick, marlstone |
Quarry | especially valuable | Natural monument | ||
Plattenkalke E from Haderfleck | 273A013 |
Kelheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | In the lower part of the Danube slope, layers of Malm Zeta 1–2 (Solnhofen layers) occur in the form of plate limestone and a few thin limestone slates. The majority of the layer structure is deformed by a noticeable sliding fold. Up the slope there is an abrupt transition to the paper slates of the Malm Zeta 3a. This digestion part is difficult to access and largely dilapidated. The plate limestone near Haderfleck is one of the stratified facies of the Hienheimer Wanne. | 2400 80 × 30 |
Type: Sediment structures, layer sequence Type: Limestone |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | ||
Former paper slate quarry S from Hohenpfahl | 273A014 |
Kelheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Plate limestone and slate (thin-layer limestone less than 1 cm thick) of the Kelheim tub are exposed in two quarries (Malm zeta 2 and 3). In the lower part, so-called cardboard slate occurs in addition to plate limestone. For hanging walls, the layer thickness is reduced to a few mm for paper slate. The high clay content makes the paper slate sequence very susceptible to weathering. The breaks therefore expire quickly. Today only part of the shift sequence is unlocked. | 50 10 × 5 |
Type: Rock type, Sedimentary structures Type: Limestone |
Quarry | significant | no protected area | ||
Former quarry on Linsberg NE of Abensberg | 273A015 |
Abensberg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The small quarry opened up a sequence of layers on the northwest edge of the Pullacher tub. Above the choppy, wavy upper limit of the Kelheimer Kalk, which dipped into the SW, and interlocked with it, there followed bank limes with fine and coarse rubble layers and chert (sometimes referred to as Abensberg limestone in the literature). The profile on the upper part of the west wall, which is still open today, shows slab limestone with banded chert slabs and thin banks containing fine debris. The rest of the profile is covered. | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone, chert |
Quarry | precious | Natural monument | ||
Western Seeholzbruch NW of Offenstetten | 273A016 |
Abensberg position |
Danube-Isar hill country | In the former quarry, the following sequence of layers was exposed: chalky mortar limestone, chert-rich limestone, Abensberg bank limestone and normal plate limestone of the lower Malm Zeta followed over massive fossil-rich Kelheim limestone. The area is now quite overgrown and collapsed. Only the upper section of the profile with bench and slab limestone is clearly visible. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone |
Quarry | significant | Natural monument | ||
Exposure at Eichelberg E from Marching | 273A018 |
Neustadt an der Donau position |
Donaumoos | The former mining site on the Danube slope shows weathered reef dolomite, which is covered by a thick layer of loess. The outcrop is strongly overgrown and decayed and therefore almost inaccessible. | 30 15 × 2 |
Type: Rock type: Dolomite stone, clay |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area | ||
Paper slate outcrop S from Weltenburg | 273A019 |
Kelheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | In the small outcropping, slide-folded plate limestone from the Malm Zeta 2 and above it paper slate from the Malm Zeta 3 (can be bent when the mountain is damp!) Can be seen. Today this outcrop has almost completely collapsed and overgrown. Only a short section of the paper slate sequence can still be seen. | 80 10 × 8 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone |
Quarry | significant | FFH area | ||
Former dolomite quarry NE of Marching | 273A021 |
Neustadt an der Donau position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Large former quarry in the massive reef dolomites of the Altmannstein-Marchinger reef range. The former mass limestone (sponge algae reef limestone) were later dolomitized. | 25000 250 × 100 |
Type: Rock Type: Dolomite Stone |
Quarry | inferior | Landscape component | ||
Quarries at Hanselberg W of Oberndorf | 273A024 |
Bad Abbach position |
Southern Franconian Alb | On the Danube slope west of Oberndorf, massive reef dolomites of the Malm epsilon to zeta (Oberkimmeridge / Untertithon) are exposed by several now abandoned quarries with walls more than 40 m high. As a result of the late diagenetic dolomitization, fossils and original structures of the rock have largely disappeared. Numerous karst cavities, some of which were filled with clay, were cut through the mining. In the fall blocks there is old sinter (stalactites). | 12000 300 × 40 |
Type: Rock type, karst chimney, karst crevice Type: dolomite stone |
Quarry | significant | FFH area, bird sanctuary | ||
Kreuzfelsen near Riedenburg | 273A027 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The rocks on the east side of the Schambach valley show two dolomite reef domes from the Malm Delta. The individual domes have a diameter of 80 - 100 m and arch about 20 m high (onion-skin-like thick sponge dolomite benches). | 16000 200 × 80 |
Type: Sedimentary structures, rock wall / slope Type: Dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural monument, bird sanctuary, nature park | ||
Former Buchenhöhe NNE quarry by Painten | 273A028 |
Painten position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The abandoned quarry on Buchenhöhe, directly opposite the large Rygol quarry, opens up banked Jurassic limestone from the area of the Paintner slab of limestone tub. The sequence of layers comprises part of the profile (Malm epsilon / zeta). | 2500 50 × 50 |
Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers, sedimentary structures Type: Limestone |
Quarry | significant | no protected area | ||
Green sand quarries near Ihrlerstein |
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273A029 |
Ihrlerstein position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Ihrlerstein quarries with Jura limestone and overlying chalk sandstones are the place of origin of the building blocks of numerous buildings by King Ludwig I (including the Liberation Hall). While the law break has long been abandoned, z. B. won Regensburg green sandstone for the construction of the Neue Pinakothek until the 1980s. The exposed profile shows 2 thick banks (each 3–4 m) made of greenish sandstone with many thick-shelled shells and overlying 5–6 m thin-banked sand-lime brick. | 1600 80 × 20 |
Type: sequence of layers, type of rock, sediment structures Type: sand-lime brick |
Quarry | significant | Natural park | |
Reef debris exposure in Riedenburg | 273A031 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | In a small outcrop directly on the Austraße in Riedenburg, meter-thick dolomite banks that are inclined approx. 40 ° to the northeast are exposed. They document the very steep collapse of a reef dome of the middle Malm (Upper Jura). The banks are partially formed by dolomite breccias, the components of which are cm to several dm in size. These breccias are interpreted as reef debris that was created by erosion near the surface of the water during reef growth. The outcrop in Riedenburg is one of the very few places where such breccia in the Franconian dolomite are so easily accessible. | 150 30 × 5 |
Type: Sediment structures, layer sequence, type of rock Type: Breccia, dolomite stone |
other information | precious | Natural park | ||
Bentonite mining NW of Straß | 273G001 |
Mainburg position |
Danube-Isar hill country | The former open-cast mine on bentonite is located approx. 250 m NW of Straß im Wald. The last time it was mined here was between the 1940s and 1950s. Pings indicate an underground mine. The occurrence is one of the few places in the Bavarian Molasse where the volcanic tuffs that have been converted to bentonite are directly in line. There is currently no evidence, but there are reading stones of a greenish, hard and platy rock (known as hard plate) that was discarded as overburden. In the meantime (2014) a new opencast mine has moved closer to the old mining tracks. | 100 10 × 10 |
Type: quarry / pit, rock type: bentonite |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | precious | no protected area | ||
Rocks at the SW Lion Monument in Bad Abbach |
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273G002 |
Bad Abbach position |
Southern Franconian Alb | During floods, the road connection for the stagecoach between Saal and Abbach was interrupted. Therefore, in the years 1794 to 1792, extensive work was carried out on the Danube prall slope to improve the situation. For this purpose, larger explosions were carried out on the rock walls. The blasted material was used to raise the road over the Danube bank. The memorial plaque and lion monument are intended to commemorate this high engineering achievement for the time. | 25000 250 × 100 |
Type: Machined Rock Type: Limestone |
embankment | significant | Natural monument | |
Old brickworks E by Marching | 273G003 |
Neustadt an der Donau position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The mine site of the former Marching brickworks is badly dilapidated and overgrown. There are still impressive remains of the brickworks. Behind the ruins of the kilns, worm-glacial loess loam and loess are cut into the pit wall. The deeper, brown loess loam of the Riß-Würm interglacial soil is no longer exposed. The loess wall, which is a maximum of 2.5 m high, has numerous breeding tunnels for birds and insects. | 60 30 × 2 |
Type: Kiln / Brickyard, Type of Rock, Fossil Soil Type: Loess, Loess Loam |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | precious | no protected area | ||
Neolithic chert quarries near Arnhofen | 273G004 |
Abensberg position |
Danube-Isar hill country | In 1984–86 excavations in former mining pits were carried out in the gravel pit area. Devices made of chert from the Pullacher Wanne are widely used by Middle Neolithic settlements, as the flat design of the raw material suited the style of weapons and devices (narrow blades and points) preferred at the time. According to existing studies, Arnhofen can be used as a production center for chert tools in the Middle Neolithic. |
Type: Manhole Type: Chert |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | Possibly deleted by the LfU (Oct. 2018) | ||
Mine field at Hirschberg W of Kelheim | 273G005 |
Hienheimer Forst position |
Southern Franconian Alb | On the spur between Altmühl and the Danube, there are several excavation pit fields as witnesses to historical ore mining. So-called floor ores (iron hydroxide concretions) that were already mined by the Celts for iron production are enriched in the residual clay of the Alb cover. The Iron Age quarries can be recognized as wide, irregular pits, deep funnel pits come from mining shafts of the early Middle Ages. The field at the Keltenwall is an example of a mining field. | 100000 500 × 200 |
Type: Pinge field Type: Iron / manganese ore, clay, sand |
no information | significant | Nature reserve, ground monument, landscape protection area | ||
Stalactite cave Schulerloch (show cave) |
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273H001 |
Essing position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Große Schulerloch, which can be safely visited as a show cave, is one of the longest caves in the area of the Lower Altmühltal with a measured passage length of 420 m. The largest room in the cave covers almost 800 m² and is 8 m high. The cave has interesting stalactite decorations in places. Scientific excavations in the cave sediment yielded not only bone finds from Ice Age animals, but also archaeological finds from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic as well as the Bronze Age. | 1260 420 × 3 |
Type: Karst Horizontal Cave Type: Limestone |
cave | precious | Nature reserve, natural monument, landscape protection area | |
Bottomless pit NE of Ihrlerstein | 273H002 |
Frauenforst position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The bottomless pit is less of a sinkhole than a shaft cave. It is an approximately 35 m deep shaft with a 3–4 m wide opening. The funnel-shaped opening is in the green sandstone, after 6 m the limit to the Jura mass limestone is reached. Here the shaft expands to 7–9 m. From this depth onwards there is an increasing narrowing. The sole is filled with loose material. The Grundlose Grube belongs to the younger (Quaternary) age karst phenomena. The Grundlose Grube is an important bat roost throughout Europe. In order to maintain the cave as a year-round habitat, there is therefore a YEAR-ROUND BAN! Speleology research is possible in individual cases, but requires a special permit. The contact person is the Lower Nature Conservation Authority at the Kelheim District Office. | 315 35 × 9 |
Type: Karst shaft cave Type: Limestone |
no information | precious | FFH area | ||
Klausenhöhlen W of Neuessing |
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273H003 |
Essing position |
Southern Franconian Alb | On the rocky slope opposite Essing, several caves and half-caves (Abri) follow one another in layers. The caves document various stages of deepening of the karst water table, coupled with the deepening of the Altmühl-Danube. The hall-like Klausen caves are among the most important ice age sites in Bavaria. A 70 m long, winding corridor connects to the vestibule at the uppermost western hermitage. | 3500 70 × 50 |
Type: Karst Horizontal Cave, Animal Fossils Type: Limestone |
cave | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area, bird sanctuary | |
Sulfur springs in the Sippenauer Moor SE of Mitterfecking |
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273Q001 |
Hall on the Danube position |
Southern Franconian Alb | On the southern edge of the Feckinger Valley, around 20 smaller springs with discharges of up to 5 l / s arise. The spring water, which has a distinct smell of hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S) as a special feature , comes from the karstified Malm under the Molasse basin. The springs trace a fault zone where the malt lime board has broken and which provides good transport routes for the karst water. Characteristic white bacterial lawns line the watercourses of the sulphurous waters. | 4 2 × 2 |
Type: Constriction Source Type: Limestone |
no information | especially valuable | Nature reserve, FFH area | |
Karst spring in Gundlfing |
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273Q002 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The karst spring, which is located near the source area to power a mill, is the outlet point of an extensive karst water system in the Malm limestone. Attempts at marking show the connection between the source and sinkholes in the Perletzhofen area. The flow rate is an average of 35 l / s, but can rise to many 100 l / s in the event of breakthroughs in temporarily blocked sinkholes. | 40 8 × 5 |
Type: Constriction Source Type: Limestone |
no information | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | |
Blautopf Weihermühle NW from Essing |
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273Q003 |
Essing position |
Southern Franconian Alb | At the valley level at the foot of the rocky slope, karst water emerges in a spring pot several meters deep, which flows directly into the Altmühl in a small stream. The mean flow rate is approx. 300 l / s. The karst spring Weihermühle shows the greatest difference between low and high water levels of the springs in the lower Altmühltal. The substances were detected in the source in marking tests with inputs from tracers at Painten, Grafenstadl, Keilsdorf. | 96 12 × 8 |
Type: Constriction Source Type: Limestone |
no information | precious | Bird sanctuary, nature park | |
Petersbrunnen in Deising |
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273Q004 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | In Deising, a karst spring emerges below the church just above the bottom of the Altmühltal. The mean flow rate is 350 l / s. Part of the spring outlet is blocked, the remaining water flows out of two spring funnels in the adjoining brook bed (trout farm). Marking tests have shown that the plateau to the west of the Petersbrunnen in Deising drains. | 75 25 × 3 |
Type: Constriction Source Type: Limestone |
no information | significant | Natural park | |
Dolomite rock with ruins Tachenstein W von Riedenburg |
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273R001 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The rock massif represents the weathered remnant of a wide-span reef dome made of dolomite (Malm Delta). The ruin already stands on the thick-banked Dolomites of the Malm Epsilon. The remains of caves and karst phenomena can be seen below the ruins. The cave ruins are the remains of a fossil, high-lying karst system. | 30000 300 × 100 |
Type: rock castle, karst halfway / natural bridge, rock tower / needle Type: dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Frauenstein S from Riedenburg | 273R002 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Frauenstein is a rounded, weathered dolomite block with a rock needle sitting on it. A statue of the Virgin Mary is placed in a rock niche. | 15 5 × 3 |
Type: Rock tower / needle Type: Dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | inferior | Natural monument, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Lookout rock N of Obereggersberg | 273R003 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Schlossfelsen Untereggersberg is a striking dolomite rock on the Altmühl-Prallhang. In the Upper Jurassic, a shallow sea with reef areas and basins covered the area of today's Franconian Alb. During the Malm Delta the massive reefs reached their greatest extent. The rocks, which were transformed into dolomite in the course of diagenesis, are now carved out as rock towers and give the landscape of the lower Altmühltal its unique character. | 800 40 × 20 |
Type: Felsburg Type: Dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape reserve, bird sanctuary, nature park | ||
Armchair rock wall near Neuessing |
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273R004 |
Essing position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Imposing mass limestone rock face with a reef dome structure. The vertical fracturing of the rock creates tower-shaped weathering forms. Coves and rock roofs at the foot of the rock face (immediately behind the houses) are due to the erosion of the Altmühldonau. Paleolithic finds were made in the half caves. The wall itself is a disruption surface. | 37000 370 × 100 |
Type: rock wall / slope, karst halfway / natural bridge Type: limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | |
Weltenburger narrow |
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273R005 |
Kelheim position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Weltenburger Enge is interpreted as an epigenetic breakthrough valley of a Pleistocene Altmühl-Danube tributary (Ingolstadt Albsaumfluss). The Danube itself has only been using this valley for around 70,000 years. The narrow valley is bounded by high massive rock walls in which smaller caves have been developed. As early as 1840, King Ludwig I ordered that the Weltenburger Narrows be preserved. This makes the NSG Weltenburger Enge both the first nature reserve in Bavaria and the longest-serving geotope. In 1978 the NSG was also awarded the European Diploma. | 2200000 5500 × 400 |
Type: breakthrough valley, rock wall / slope, karst horizontal cave Type: Limestone |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | especially valuable | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 13 |
Castle rock Prunn N of Nusshausen |
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273R006 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Prunn Palace is enthroned on a striking limestone rock that rises high above the Altmühltal. The rocks were formed in the Upper Jurassic in the Malm delta and epsilon. The higher parts probably extend into the Malm zeta. The rocks made of plump rock limestone near Prunn are among the most important landscape-shaping elements of the lower Altmühltal. From the castle rock you have a wide view over the Altmühltal. | 80000 800 × 100 |
Type: Rock Castle Type: Limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Sippenauer Moor ESE from Mitterfecking |
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273R007 |
Hall on the Danube position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Sippenauer Moor (or Moos) in Feckinger Tal is a low moor with littered meadows, reed areas and sparse trees. It is fed by a large number of sources, especially on its southwestern edge. High hydrogen sulfide contents in the springs favored the deposition of sapropeles (digested sludge) within the peat formations. | 120000 600 × 200 |
Type: fen, constriction source Type: peat |
no information | significant | Nature reserve, FFH area | |
Falkenhorstfelsen W of Jachenhausen | 273R008 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The Falkenhorstfelsen, a rock spur made of reef dolomite on the Altmühl-Prallhang, is one of the many rock towers that give the Altmühltal its unmistakable appearance and make up the charm of the landscape. | 3000 150 × 20 |
Type: Rock tower / needle Type: Dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Nature park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Schlossberg Rosenburg near Riedenburg |
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273R009 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | The reef formation that has progressed since the lower Malm led to extensive reefs in the area around Riedenburg. Reef formers were mainly sponge and algae colonies. The reef dolomite rocks on the Schlossberg trace the shape of the former sponge reef with indistinct layer joints. | 30000 300 × 100 |
Type: Felsburg Type: Dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | |
Devil's Rock SW of Alkofen | 273R010 |
Bad Abbach position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Approx. 200 m long and 60 m high rock face in massive reef limestone on the former Danube slope. The rock consists of massive sponge algae reef limestone with transitions to Kelheim limestone (fossil rubble limestone). A rock fall occurred in the southern part of the rock, which is criss-crossed by caves. | 400 200 × 2 |
Type: Rock wall / slope, Rock fall Type: Limestone |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural monument | ||
Dunes in Seeholz NW of Offenstetten |
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273R011 |
Abensberg position |
Danube-Isar hill country | In the Seeholz between Abensberg and Offenstetten there are remains of an extensive dune landscape from the late to postglacial on high terrace gravel (Altabens terrace). The geomorphological treasure trove has been preserved under the forest cover (as opposed to agricultural areas). The dunes are mainly designed as line dunes facing WE, but there are also transverse and sickle dunes. After W, the relief forms flatten to form flat-waved drifting sand covers. | 140000 700 × 200 |
Type: Dune field Type: Sand |
no information | significant | Nature reserve, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 78 |
Dunes W of Siegenburg | 273R012 |
Siegenburg position |
Danube-Isar hill country | At the edge of the Abenstal, in the east of the Dürnbuch forest, you come across a large field of sand dunes. At the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene, a dry, cold climate with strong westerly winds favored the formation of drifting sand dunes. A large part of the dunes here are designed as line dunes, which are parallel to the prevailing wind direction in west-east direction, but also cross and sickle dunes occur. | 150,000 750 × 200 |
Type: Dune field Type: Sand |
no information | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Hopfenbachfall WSW from Großmuß | 273R015 |
Hall on the Danube position |
Danube-Isar hill country | The Hopfenbach, which rises in the Upper Miocene gravels and sands southeast of Bachl, seeps away at a creek subsurface where the water reaches the karstification-capable Malm limestone. The Hopfenabchtal continues as a dry valley. Depending on the water flow, the stream disappears in a sinkhole with almost no backwater or accumulates to form a larger lake area. Above-ground drainage through the Hopfenbachtal is only carried out when there is a very high water supply. | 25 5 × 5 |
Type: Stream shrinkage Type: Clay, marl, limestone |
no information | precious | no protected area | ||
Kallmünzer in Jachenhausener Grund | 273R016 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | On the northern slope at height 532.9, NE of Jachenhausen, there are six cubic meter-sized blocks of silicified Cretan sandstone (Kallmünzer). | 2000 50x40 |
Type: Relic Rocks Type: Quartz Sandstone |
block | significant | Landscape protection area | ||
Gorge with caves SE of Riedenburg | 273R017 |
Riedenburg position |
Southern Franconian Alb | Between Prunn and Einthal, the Altmühl forms a gorge with several rock exposures up to 40 m high and some small caves. The caves in the Franconian dolomite were evidently already inhabited in the early Paleolithic. A regional hiking trail (Altmühltal-Panoramaweg) opens up the gorge and the gorge cave. | 36000 400 × 90 |
Type: Klamm Type: Dolomite stone |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area |
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Former gravel pit on Steinleite W of Landshut | 274A001 |
Altdorf position |
Danube-Isar hill country | The 35 m high outcrop shows a profile of the northern full gravel with sands, silts, marls and gravels, some of which are baked into nail flukes and contain individual iron hydroxide bands. There are new buildings in front of the outcrop wall. Only the lowest part of the partially overgrown and collapsed exposure wall is accessible. | 1500 50 × 30 |
Type: Rock Type: Gravel, Conglomerate |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | no protected area | ||
Gravel pit on the Kaltellerberg SW of Mettenbach | 274A003 |
Essenbach position |
Danube-Isar hill country | In the outcrop there is a marl horizon widespread in the Landshut area within the northern full gravel (up to 2 m thick). This grips discordantly over an erosion relief of the horizontally, sometimes diagonally layered gravel. From the surface, deep, clay-filled pockets of weathering dig into the gravel, which overlay the marl horizon. The outcrop begins to grow (2003). | 600 30 × 20 |
Type: Discordance, Soil Profile Type: Gravel, Marl |
Gravel pit / sand pit | precious | no protected area | ||
Former Tiefenbach gravel pit | 274A004 |
Tiefenbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | Most of the former gravel pit has collapsed and overgrown, and the remaining outcrops are difficult to access. Gravel from the northern full gravel was extracted, the outcrops showed a typical sedimentation pattern with cross and inclined stratification, conglomerate and sandstone layers. Reuter blocks were also described from the break, foreign Malmkalk lumps that are associated with the Ries event or volcanic activity. | 800 40 × 20 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: gravel, sand, conglomerate |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | no protected area | ||
Former gravel pit Großmaulberg SE from Vilsbiburg | 274A008 |
Vilsbiburg position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The sediments exposed in the former gravel pit are placed in the Moldanubian series of the Upper Upper Freshwater Molasse. The pit is completely overgrown apart from two smaller outcrops. In the past, cylindrical cavities in the sediment could be seen on the former excavation wall in sloping sands (feldspar and biotite leading, with iron hydroxide impregnation), which indicated that driftwood had been stored. A leaf flora was found in clay lenses. | 2400 120 × 20 |
Type: Sedimentary structures, Vegetable fossils Type: Sand |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | no protected area | ||
Former gravel pit on Klausenberg W von Achdorf | 274A009 |
Tiefenbach position |
Paar-Isar region | The outcrop in the higher part of the Northern Full Gravel with a boulder spectrum of quartz, limestone, crystalline rocks and clastic and pebbly sediments shows the typical sedimentation pattern of a Miocene river system with an alpine catchment area. A tooth fragment of an elephant-like (Gomphotherium) was found in the rubble. The former pit wall has now largely collapsed and overgrown. Information can only be found in the uppermost area. | 1600 80 × 20 |
Type: Rock, Animal Fossils Type: Gravel |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | no protected area | ||
Doberlöcher W from Eck | 274G001 |
Kröning position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the area there are shallow pits as evidence of a former clay mining. Clays from the hanging wall series of the Upper Freshwater Molasse were mined for use as a ceramic raw material. The clays formed the basis of a pottery trade that flourished for centuries in the area of the Kröning (Kröninger Hafnerware) and of small farm brickworks. The clays were deposited in still water areas (backwaters, small lakes and ponds at the edge of rivers) and are designed as small-scale lenses. | 3000 100 × 30 |
Type: Pinging field Type: Sound |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Hill slide on Enzelsberg (Schlösselberg NE from Hüttenkofen) | 274R001 |
Niederaichbach position |
Paar-Isar region | The 50 m wide landslide on the Isar steep slope developed on a marl horizon, which was additionally moistened by the springs attached to it. At the demolition niche, the sediments (gravel, sand, marl) of the northern gravel are still exposed. However, the outcrop is growing over and difficult to reach. The landslide masses appear as bulges. The unsettled relief of the slope indicates that landslides have taken place here more often. | 4000 80 × 50 |
Type: landslide, layer source Type: clay marl, gravel |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | no protected area | ||
High Burg NE of Wolfsbach | 274R002 |
Niederaichbach position |
Paar-Isar region | Northern full gravel is on the steep valley flank (former impact slope) of the Isar valley. The gravel sequence consists of an alternating sequence of gravel and sand, in which marl is also included. The marls at the level of the betonite horizon have increased contents of swellable clay minerals, which favors landslides. Below the castle stables, the sediments are exposed on a several meter high edge of a landslide. | 20000 200 × 100 |
Type: Impact slope, landslide Type: Gravel, sand, marl |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural monument, FFH area | ||
Terraces in the Aichbachtal near Reichersdorf | 274R003 |
Niederaichbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | Above the current course of the stream, three terrace levels can be distinguished in the Aichbachtal between Wimm and Niederaichbach. The three terrace levels (late worm period to sub-recent) can be parallelized with terraces in the Isar valley, the old town (late worm period), the Lerchenfeld (Roman period to early medieval) and the alluvial forest level (sub-recent, 19th / 20th century). | 12000 800 × 15 |
Type: Terrace Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Terrace S by Ried | 274R004 |
Bruckberg position |
Danube-Isar hill country | The Isar valley between Moosburg and to the east of Landshut is accompanied on the left by leveling areas that are clearly set off from the tertiary hill country, the cracked glacial high terrace. This high terrace is particularly striking between Bruckberg and Gündlkofen. Compared to the late-worm glacial and Holocene Isartal soils, it forms a strikingly high terrain level there. At Ried, the edge of the terrace traces the meander loop of an earlier course of the Isar as a rebound slope. | 6000 300 × 20 |
Type: terrace, impact slope Type: gravel |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Schwalbengraben E from Niederaichbach | 274R005 |
Niederaichbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The Schwalbengraben is a steep-walled brook valley, cut into the right bank of the Isar, which is formed as a Kerbtal in the upper reaches and as a Kerbsohlental in the lower reaches. The stream is fed by several permanent and periodic sources. In the upper reaches, the gravel of the upper freshwater molasse is exposed in some places due to erosion on impact slopes. In the lower reaches an alluvial cone has formed through gravel up to the Isar floodplain. The stream seeps away here in its own gravel bed. | 60000 3000 × 20 |
Type: Kerbtal, Prallhang, Terrace Type: Gravel |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | FFH area | ||
Southern Isar valley slope NE of Landshut | 274R006 |
Niederaichbach position |
Paar-Isar region | The partial erosion slope on the Isar valley was created during the Pleistocene (possibly from the Mindel glacial period). There are no cold-age terrace sediments. These were probably completely cleared out during the Würm glacial period. The steep slope is largely in northern gravel. Stratified springs emerge on marl and silt horizons, sometimes with limestone tufa deposits (e.g. river km 57.2 and 57.8 [= 274R007]). On the steep valley slopes, landslides occur again and again. | 50000 1000 × 50 |
Type: Impact slope, sinter formation, layer source, landslide Type: marl, gravel, tufa |
no information | precious | FFH area | ||
Tufa formations on the Kellerberg NE of Niederaichbach | 274R007 |
Niederaichbach position |
Paar-Isar region | Several small brooks arise from a stratified spring (wide outlet zone, with an old spring socket), where tufa limestone is excreted. Both wall-like and flat tufa formations occur. Sometimes they form channels in which the water flows off. The tufa cushions are up to 1 m thick. Both organic and inorganic processes play a role in the precipitation of lime from the groundwater. Mosses and algae are involved in building up the tuff. | 20 5 × 4 |
Type: Sinter formation, layer source type: Tufa |
no information | significant | FFH area | ||
Gravel bank for gold mining on the Isar near Niederaichbach | 274R008 |
Niederaichbach position |
Paar-Isar region | Below the Kellerberg east of Niederaichbach, a headland has been preserved in the straightened and diked Isar. The comparison with the first recording from the 19th century shows that this is the relic of a gravel bank that was located in the middle of the then untamed Isar. Reports about the gold panning process on the Isar and about gold panners based in Goldern - 2 km south - make it probable that the precious metal was also panned at this gravel bank after the annual spring floods. Traces of it are of course no longer preserved. With the straightening of the course of the river for land reclamation and flood protection from the end of the 19th century, the landings of gravel and soap gold ended, and gold panning also ended. In the agriculturally used or built-up floodplain north of the Isar, the old river meanders can still be seen today in the digital terrain model from laser scan data. | 12000 300 × 40 |
Type: alluvial fan, meander, soap laundry Type: gravel, sand |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | FFH area | ||
Isar rapids seven ribs near Bruckbergerau | 274R009 |
Bruckberg position |
Paar-Isar region | To the west of the motorway bridge, the Isar flows through striking rapids caused by conglomerate ribs in the river bed. The tertiary molasse gravel is solidified into conglomerate here. This is possibly related to the fault zone of the Landshut-Neuöttinger demolition underground. This is the only place on the Middle and Lower Isar where the river bed consists of solid rock. At river km 87.4 there is an information board next to the cycle path on the northern bank. Here you can also take a path down to the shore. | 9000 150 × 60 |
Type: waterfall, stream / river course, Härtling, sedimentary structures Type: conglomerate |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary |
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Merckenschlager S quarry in Fürstenstein | 275A001 |
Fürstenstein position |
Passau Forest | The former quarry shows various forms of intrusion of younger granites (Tittlinger and Saldenburg granite) into the older quartz mica diorite in an unusually high contrast. The penetration of the granites in a broad front and in corridors has led to different contact phenomena with decomposition into clods, partial, marginal and complete assimilation of the diorite by the granites. The various contact phenomena can be seen impressively in the break. | 8400 120 × 70 |
Type: Contact, Rock Type: Quartz Diorite, Granite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Former quarry Hilgersberg SE from Philippswart | 275A002 |
Hofkirchen position |
Passau Forest | In the former quarry, migmatic gneiss is exposed. Different stages of migmatization, i.e. the partial to complete re-melting of the gneiss, can be studied there. The gneisses show z. T. Loss of texture, a separation of the darker and lighter mineral components and a streaky structure. The end product is massive, granite-like rocks. | 1950 65 × 30 |
Type: Rock Type: Gneiss |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Former quarry at Wimhof | 275A003 |
Vilshofen position |
Passau Forest | In the heavily overgrown quarry, migmatic gneisses, dolomite marbles, granitoids (aplitic to pegmatitic) and calcareous silicate horn rocks are exposed. The quarry is known for its formerly rich mineral finds linked to contact paragenesis. Today the mineral paragenesis can only be seen in the handpiece in the microscopic range. | 300 30 × 10 |
Type: Minerals, Contact, Metamorphic Structure Type: Gneiss, Marble |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Rathsmannsdorf marble quarry | 275A004 |
Windorf position |
Passau Forest | In the eastern part of the quarry, a coarse, gray-white, banded marble is exposed. Granite-like rocks can be found in contact with the marble as lenses and ribbons. The rocks are folded and deformed. Almost only the upper level of the quarry is accessible. Access to the lower walls is made difficult by a pond. The western part of the quarry is now a material store. | 800 40 × 20 |
Type: rock type, contact, fold / trough / saddle type: marble, anatexite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Former marble quarry Hausbach ESE von Zeitlarn | 275A005 |
Vilshofen position |
Passau Forest | In the partially collapsed and overgrown quarry there is a graphite-rich, banded marble. Calcium silicate rock lenses are embedded at the edge. The banding of the marble (falling 50 degrees N) is evident from the weathering on the old quarry walls. The starting material for the metamorphic rock was a marly, organic sediment. | 150 30 × 5 |
Type: Rock Type , Contact Type: Marble, Granite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Quarry Buchet E von Fürstenstein | 275A006 |
Fürstenstein position |
Passau Forest | In the former quarry, various granites and diorites of the Fürstenstein granite massif are exposed in contact with one another. Among other things, a very fine-grained diorite with titanium stain formation (= titanium stain diorite) and fine to medium-grained Tittlingen granite can be seen. The rocks are traversed by different generations of aplitic and pegmatitic dikes. The break serves as a sculptor's exhibition area (stone and metal sculptures). | 1600 80 × 20 |
Type: Rock Type: Diorite, Granite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Former quarry W of Kalkberg | 275A007 |
Fürstenzell position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the Kalkberg quarry, the only Jura profile on the southern border of the upcoming Moldanubic is exposed. The adjacent Kalkberger disturbance causes a steep section up to overturning of the layers. The crystalline rocks north of the fault are not exposed in the fracture. The rocks of the Jura can be seen: crinoid limestone (Dogger beta), marl and limestone marl (Malm alpha) and pebble limestone (Malm beta). | 4000 100 × 40 |
Type: Standard / Reference Profile, Disturbance Type: Limestone |
Quarry | especially valuable | no protected area | ||
Former quarry N of Grögöd | 275A010 |
Untergriesbach position |
Passau Forest | In the former quarry, gneisses from the so-called Kropfmühl series (colorful group) and gangue granite are to be found. The gneisses are heavily folded, anatectic overprinted and contain abundant deposits of calcium silicate, amphibolite, metacarbonate and ultrabasite. The gneisses are covered or penetrated by fine-grain granite. The granite partially has reddish andalusite needles. The structure, mineralization and contact phenomena can be clearly observed on the fracture walls and blocks. | 3400 85 × 40 |
Type: rock type, metamorphic structure, contact type: amphibolite, granite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Molasse outcrop S from Kößlarn | 275A011 |
Kößlarn position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The exposure shows the lower Oncophora layers (brackish water molasses) with flour sands, the Schill horizon and mica sands. The exposed layer structure shows the transition from the deeper, coastal to the shallow littoral sedimentation area. The outgrowth is of great importance for understanding the silting process of the brackish water molasses. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: Layer sequence, Animal fossils, Sedimentary structures Type: Sand |
Gravel pit / sand pit | precious | no protected area | ||
Gneiss blocks NW from Hacklmühle | 275A013 |
Ortenburg position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The gneiss blocks mark the south-westerly occurrence of the Moldanubian basement in this area. They were raised at the Wolfach fault compared to the Ortenburg subsidence field. The gneiss blocks lying on the meadow near the swimming pool come from road construction. There are more gneiss blocks in the embankment. | 2 2 × 1 |
Type: fault, rock type, relict rock type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss |
block | precious | no protected area | ||
Kerber SW quarry from Stützersdorf | 275A017 |
Tittling position |
Passau Forest | In the quarry, Tittlinger and Saldenburger granite are exposed to cold contact. The northern part of the break (Kerber company) has now been abandoned. On the lowest level there is a lake (used as diving water). The contact between the older fine to medium-grained Tittlinger and the younger, coarse-grained Saldenburg granite can be seen in large blocks. The southern part of the break (Kusserwerk Höhenberg) is still active. Contact is currently open there (2003). | 12500 250 × 50 |
Type: Rock type, Minerals Type: Alkali feldspar granite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Former Kohlbruch SE from Obernzell | 275A018 |
Untergriesbach position |
Passau Forest | Gümbel first described the pseudofossil Eozoon Bavaricum in the former marble quarry. In fact, it is a regulated intergrowth of forsterite and calcite, known as ophicalcite. A cavity in the quarry wall comes from a former pegmatite, from which feldspar and scapolite were extracted. | 800 40 × 20 |
Type: Minerals, Rock Type: Marble, Gneiss, Pegmatite |
Quarry | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area | ||
Former quarry in Spiesbrunn | 275A020 |
Breitenberg position |
Passau Forest | In the quarry, an approx. 5 m thick storage corridor made of fine-grain granite that penetrated between migmatitic gneisses with metabasic inclusions was excavated. The excavation followed the granite-gneiss bearing surface. This contact area - a cold, sharp contact - is exposed over several hundred square meters. This base surface shows gneiss with a fibrous structure, the layers of light and dark components dissolve in streaks up to a random structure. | 4800 120 × 40 |
Type: Contact, Metamorphic Structure Type: Granite, Gneiss |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Road profile N from Spechting | 275A021 |
Untergriesbach position |
Passau Forest | The road cut above Spechting opens up a profile through the so-called colorful group of the Moldanubic. In the colorful group there are various other metamorphic rocks such as amphibolite, marble, calcium silicate rock and graphite slate in addition to the paragneiss. At Spechting, layer gneisses (partially folded isoclinally) with layers of graphite slate and calcareous silicate rocks are developed. A porphyrite storage tunnel cuts through the rocks (horizontal band a few meters above the ground). | 1000 200 × 5 |
Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers, metamorphic structure Type: biotite-plagioclase-gneiss, metamorphic calcium silicate rock |
embankment | precious | no protected area | ||
Amphibolite at the summit of the Ruhmannsberg NE von Röhrendobel | 275A022 |
Hauzenberg position |
Passau Forest | The summit of the Ruhmannsberg is formed by a small rock cliff made of amphibolite. Two different varieties are open: a fine-grained and a coarse-grained amphibolite, which are forfeited with one another. Some of the rocks also have a layered appearance with light and dark bands. Basic volcanic rocks can be used as starting rocks for the amphibolites. A rib made of fine-grain granite is exposed just a little north of the summit. | 100 10 × 10 |
Type: Rock Type: Amphibolite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | no protected area | ||
Sand pit NE of Hirschenberg | 275A023 |
Wegscheid position |
Passau Forest | In the sand pit, deeply weathered diatexites (partially melted gneiss) are exposed under an approx. 2 m thick layer of walking rubble made of granite and diorite. The rocks are completely decomposed over the entire outcrop, so that they can be mined like sand. The structural features of the rock, such as B. the cleft network, but are completely preserved. The gneiss substitute is evidence of intense chemical weathering during the Tertiary. | 30 15 × 2 |
Type: Rock type: Gneiss gravel, granite, diorite |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | no protected area | ||
Road exposure in Breitenberg | 275A024 |
Breitenberg position |
Passau Forest | The road outcrop in Breitenberg gives an insight into the different structures of a migmatite with numerous gneiss relics (= nebulitic gneiss). Open-minded is z. B. a migmatite with a random structure that has penetrated as mobilisate between small gneiss clods. In the course of the geological history of these rocks, feldspar sprouting occurred to varying degrees. A narrow granite corridor can be seen at the northern end of the embankment. | 40 40 × 1 |
Type: Rock type, Metamorphic structure Type: Migmatite |
embankment | significant | no protected area | ||
Former marl pit NE Neuhofen | 275A025 |
Tettenweis position |
Isar-Inn hill country | Today's outcrop near Neuhofen, a cut on the valley flank, lies directly in the area of the former marl pit, which gave the name of the marl succession of the Neuhofen layers (type locality). The Neuhofen layers, sediments of the Upper Sea Molasse, consist of light gray-white marls, silts and sand marls. Macrofossils, especially mussel shells, and microfauna are evidence of the marine deposit environment. The pit is type locality for some microfossils. | 18 6 × 3 |
Type: Type locality, Animal fossils Type: Marl |
Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit | precious | no protected area | ||
Former granite quarry in Büchlberg | 275A032 |
Büchlberg position |
Passau Forest | In the former quarry on Büchlberg, fine to medium-grain two-mica granite (corresponds to Hauzenberger Granite I) was once mined. The rock, which is greyish-white when fresh, has a slightly yellowish smell. On the exposed walls you can see that the weathering has penetrated to different depths. The granite quarry, framed on all sides by the remaining walls, on the deepest floor of which there is a lake today, is a natural monument and is located in a landscape conservation area. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Rock Type: Granite |
Quarry | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area | ||
Lime silicate rocks SW of Schörgendorf | 275A033 |
Thyrnau position |
Passau Forest | At the lower end of the trench, which reaches the Danube at river kilometer 2218, a small rock wall opens up banded calcium silicate rocks with numerous metamorphic structures. The rock shows a tight, narrow band. Occasionally, isoclinal folds can be seen. Quartz and amphibolite appear as crooks or elongated lenses. Small aplit passages cut through the layered structure. The outcrop is somewhat overgrown and therefore not easily accessible during the vegetation phase. | 40 20 × 2 |
Type: Rock type, metamorphic structure Type: Calcium silicate rock, gneiss, aplite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area | ||
Former quarry N von Schauberg | 275A034 |
Sun position |
Passau Forest | Fine to medium-grain biotite granite was mined in the former quarry. The northern wall of the quarry opens up an approx. 1 m thick dark porphyrite dike. The porphyrite is sometimes very bright. The corridor was only partially dismantled. Therefore, the noticeably different fracture behavior of granite (extensive network of fissures, large blocks) and porphyrite (close-meshed network of fissures, small-block, sharp-edged rubble) can be clearly seen on the wall. | 900 30 × 30 |
Type: rock type, contact type: granite, andesite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Quarry at Ochsenberg S von Fürstenstein | 275A037 |
Fürstenstein position |
Passau Forest | In the quarry at Ochsenberg, the multiphase penetration of magmas of various compositions can be seen particularly well on the basis of different appearances and colors. The Tittlingen granite (medium gray) breaks down the titanite patch granodiorite (dark gray) into rounded clods. When both types of rock had solidified, biotite-muscovite granite (light gray) penetrated and split the older rocks into angular clods. Younger, bright aplites and pegmatites cut through all older rocks. The quarry is privately owned and can be viewed on weekdays after registering in the company office (Thiele). | 15000 150 × 100 |
Type: Igneous structure, type locality, type of rock Type: granodiorite, aplite, pegmatite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | ||
Road embankment SE Weiding | 275A038 |
Neukirchen in front of the forest position |
Passau Forest | This area is characterized by relatively light-colored diatexites, which have green hornblende and amphibolite clods. | 9801 99 × 99 |
Type: Rock type, metamorphic structure Type: Migmatite, amphibolite |
embankment | significant | no protected area | ||
Schachet quarry - Hauzenberg granite center |
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275A039 |
Hauzenberg position |
Passau Forest | In the Schachet quarry, blue-gray Hauzenberg granodiorite was mined from 1885 to 1984 and marketed worldwide. Today the granite center of the Bavarian Forest is located in this quarry. Radiometric dating of the rock from this fracture revealed an age of approximately 320 million years. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Rock, Quarry / Pit Type: Granodiorite |
Quarry | precious | no protected area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 89 |
Serpentinite exposure at Oberilzmühle | 275A040 |
Salzweg position |
Passau Forest | East of the Ilz is one of the rare outcrops of serpentinite at the dam of the electricity works and on the access road over a length of around 40 meters in rock exemptions and the road embankment. In the embankment, the pale green to whitish beige, heavily fissured rock is partly heavily weathered. In addition, fibrous chrysotile is also exposed. In the area of the dam, light beige to light gray Mylonites are exposed. These mylonites were created by movements at the Danube fault, during which the highly metamorphic diatexites were severely deformed with decreasing temperatures. | 200 40 × 5 |
Type: metamorphic structure, rock type: serpentinite, mylonite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area | ||
Graphite mining in Kropfmühl | 275G001 |
Hauzenberg position |
Passau Forest | Germany's only graphite deposit is located near Kropfmühl. The field has an area of approx. 4 × 1 km. The graphite is mined underground in seams that are up to 6 m thick (graphite content up to 30 percent). The graphite occurs in the seams, as well as in the non-mineable adjacent rock (gneiss, marbles), as flakes up to 2 mm in size. The extraction of graphite has taken place since Celtic times. | 0 not specified |
Type: tunnel, shaft, steelworks / smelting furnace, minerals, rock type: Gneiss, marble |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | precious | no protected area | ||
Mining traces near Haagwies and Pfaffenreuth | 275G002 |
Hauzenberg position |
Passau Forest | A large fracture field near Haagwies with dilapidated shafts, pings and heaps is evidence of brisk mining activity. Numerous individual mining sites were later combined into one field. The former network of tunnels is connected to the mining operations at Kropfmühl that are active today. The eternity tunnel is used for water retention. The wooden building of the Scherlesreuther shaft was renewed. Information boards explain the history of mining. Mining traces can also be found between Pfaffenreuth and Steinbichl (Stierweide mining field with large heaps) and near Pfaffenreuth (funnel pit field, before the 19th century). | 37500 250 × 150 |
Type: Pinge / nfeld Type: biotite plagioclase gneiss, gneiss, calcium silicate rock |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Funnel pit field in the Steinkartforst N of Bad Griesbach | 275G003 |
Bad Griesbach in the Rottal position |
Isar-Inn hill country | So-called funnel pit fields can be found in several places in the stone kart forest as evidence of old iron ore mining. Funnel pits are round to oval, closed hollow shapes. Between them there are small walls and mounds made of the excavated material. Iron ore concretions were extracted from the pits, which are enriched in damming layers in the residual quartz gravel or at the top of the full gravel. The mining took place from about 250 BC. To 1200 AD. The funnel pit field is a ground monument. | 10000 100 × 100 |
Type: Pinge field Type: Iron / manganese ore, gravel |
no information | significant | Ground monument | ||
Mining traces in the church wood N of Frauenmühle an der Gaißa | 275G004 |
Tiefenbach position |
Passau Forest | A breakdown on graphite has left impressive traces in the church wood N by Frauenmühle. Between about 350 and 390 m altitude, the slope (in the forest, directly at the tree line) shows a noticeably restless morphology. Between scattered funnel-shaped pits, the remains of collapsed shafts, piles of spoil pile up like irregular ridges. The former graphite mining in church wood is much further west than all other known mining traces in the Passau Forest. | 8000 100 × 80 |
Type: Pinge / nfeld, Halde Type: Gneiss |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Grübenfeld gold mining near Eppendorf | 275G005 |
Witzmannsberg position |
Passau Forest | Up to 5 m high soap mounds in a Grübenfeld near Eppendorf are traces of a presumably medieval gold panning. The gold was washed from a paleo soap. A Tertiary Ur-Ilz brought gold from the Rachel area and deposited it. The largest gold nugget in Bavaria with a diameter of over one centimeter was found here recently. The property is under special protection as a ground monument (monument no. D-2-7246-0161). | 308000 770 × 400 |
Type: Soap Laundry Type: Gravel |
Ping | precious | Ground monument | ||
Sulfur spring in Bad Höhenstadt | 275Q001 |
Fürstenzell position |
Isar-Inn hill country | Because of the two sulfur springs, east and west of the Kurhaus, the spa was built in Höhenstadt in 1713. Votive tablets show, however, that the effectiveness of the two sources was known long before. The sources are collected. They get their main inflow from a depth of 15 m. The genesis of these mineral waters has not yet been clarified. The spring water smells noticeably of hydrogen sulfide. | 0 not specified |
Type: Mineral Spring Type: Sand, Marl |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
High stone W from Fürstenstein Castle | 275R001 |
Fürstenstein position |
Passau Forest | The summit cliffs made of Saldenburg granite show pronounced weathering of wool sacks and mattresses. There are several block streams at the foot of the rock castle. Cliffs and block currents are the results of erosion, especially through soil flow and weathering in the periglacial space (permafrost region) of the past cold ages. They are typical for higher elevations in the low mountain range between the icing areas. | 4000 80 × 50 |
Type: Felsburg, Wollsackbildung, Blockstrom Type: Granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | no protected area | ||
Boulder Hoher Stein SE from Höch | 275R003 |
Neuburg am Inn position |
Passau Forest | The large round boulder made of pearl gneiss lies at the edge of several fish ponds. The rock is medium to coarse-grained, flaky in layers with rounded cracks and mafic streaks (visible on the south side of the block). The location in a brook valley with flat slopes identifies the block as the erosion residue of a Pleistocene solifluctic blanket. | 40 8 × 5 |
Type: Boulder Type: Gneiss, Granite |
block | significant | no protected area | ||
Mushrooms in the Steinkart E forest from Freiling | 275R004 |
Haarbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the former gravel pit in residual quartz gravel (freshwater molasses), the hard quartz conglomerate bank above was undercut from three sides. The mushroom-like rock formation, the rock mushroom, emerged. The erosion process continues through erosion, so that currently the conglomerates (hat of the mushroom) protrude 3 to 4 m above the base (stem of the mushroom) from loose quartz gravel. The binding agent of this residual gravel is almost completely decomposed (kaolinized). | 35 7 × 5 |
Type: rock wall / slope, eruption / weathering cave Type: conglomerate |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | no protected area | ||
Teufelsstein NE by Tittling | 275R005 |
Tittling position |
Passau Forest | According to legend, the boulder made of migmatic gneisses was used by the devil as a projectile on a new church building (handprint from weathered inclusions). | 3 3 × 1 |
Type: Boulder Type: Gneiss |
block | significant | no protected area | ||
Vornbacher Enge NE of Vornbach |
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275R006 |
Neuburg am Inn position |
Passau Forest | The Vornbacher Enge is interpreted as a Pleistocene breakthrough valley. The valley of the Inn narrows noticeably at the border between young loose rock and crystalline basement. In the Pleistocene, the river cut epigenetically into the slowly rising crystalline. | 54000 1800 × 30 |
Type: breakthrough valley Type: Gneiss |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Summit of the Eidenberger Lüssen NE from Eidenberg | 275R007 |
Wegscheid position |
Passau Forest | The summit of the Eidenberger Lüssen is built up from rocky cliffs that drop off steeply to the W from dietetic gneiss. Extensive block fields lie below the summit. The summit cliffs and boulder fields are the result of profound weathering in the Tertiary and increased erosion in the Pleistocene. In exposed locations, loosened material was removed down to the solid rock, thus exposing the cliffs. Loose blocks were transported down the slope by floor tiles. | 8000 200 × 40 |
Type: Rock wall / slope, rocky dome Type: Gneiss |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area | ||
Hohler Fels N von Churfürst | 275R008 |
Haarbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | A large quartz conglomerate block is pushed over other conglomerate blocks in such a way that a large cavity has been created underneath, which was used as a dry shelter by woodworkers. Through solifluction (soil flow) during the cold ages, the clods of rock moved from their original position a little higher on the slope to their current position. The geotope is on a marked hiking trail. There are other striking blocks in the area: Dragon, Dwarf Castle, Three Giants. | 80 10 × 8 |
Type: Boulder, Rock type, Solifluction phenomenon Type: Conglomerate |
block | significant | Natural monument | ||
Teufelstein SW from Halmstein | 275R009 |
Malching position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The quartz conglomerate rib protrudes very conspicuously and isolated from the morphological ridge of the terrain. Former residual quartz gravel was largely silicified in the course of the diagenesis, so that today the rock consists almost exclusively of SiO 2 . The layer surface of the steep block consists of quartzite (originally sandstone) and shows crater-like erosion forms. | 40 8 × 5 |
Type: Boulder, Rock Type: Conglomerate |
block | significant | Natural monument | ||
Rock ensemble NE by Jochenstein on the Donauleite | 275R010 |
Untergriesbach position |
Passau Forest | On the banks of the Danube, several rock ribs made of eye and pearl gneiss protrude from the slope, each ending in steep cliffs (10 to 15 m). An almost right-angled system of fractures is responsible for the cuboid shape of the towers. The block flow between the ridges also consists of strikingly geometric gneiss blocks. The cliffs allow a fantastic view of the Kerbtal of the Danube and Jochenstein (cliffs below the hiking trail, beware of the risk of falling !!!). | 400 20 × 20 |
Type: rock group, rock tower / needle, block flow Type: gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area | ||
Rock face on the Donauleite SE of Obernzell | 275R011 |
Untergriesbach position |
Passau Forest | To the east of Passau, the Danube has cut deeply into the crystalline subsoil. The north bank of Bavaria is accompanied by the 200 to 300 m high steep slopes of the Danube side. In the outer area of river bends, on the impact slopes, these are particularly striking. The large rock face on the Prallhang SE of Obernzell (lower area blasted free for the road) opens up a profile through rocks of the colorful group with differently formed gneisses alternating with calcium silicate rock. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Prallhang, Kerbtal, rock type: Gneiss, calcium silicate rock |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area | ||
Rocks on the Aubach | 275R012 |
Hauzenberg position |
Passau Forest | In the exposed rock above the Aubache, there are light-colored, fine-grained, garnet-bearing rocks made of quartz and potassium feldspar, kyanite can be detected in isolated cases. These Felsic granulites show a high pressure metamorphosis around 340 Ma. | 9801 99 × 99 |
Type: Rock wall / slope Type: Granulite |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | no protected area | ||
High moor in the Ranna valley | 275R013 |
Hauzenberg position |
Passau Forest | A raised bog grew up on the valley floor by the Ranna. Such oligotrophic bogs usually occur away from the valleys, predominantly fed by precipitation. The formation of the moor is here to be connected with a spring horizon on the edge of the valley. | 50000 500 × 100 |
Type: raised bog Type: peat |
no information | significant | FFH area | ||
Gravel pit NE Kapfham | 275A036 |
Eging at the lake position |
Passau Forest | In this pit the base of the tertiary sediments is exposed over basement rock. The gneisses are badly weathered. The gravelly dominated sediment sequence begins with a horizon of blocky gneiss components (up to approx. 20 cm, now crumbling). | 62700 330 × 190 |
Type: Type of rock, type of layers : gravel, gneiss gravel, gneiss |
Gravel pit / sand pit | precious | no protected area |
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Outcrop on the Burgberg in Kollnburg |
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276A001 |
Kollnburg position |
Front Bavarian Forest | On the Burgberg in Kollnburg, three common rocks south of the pile are in contact with each other. Relatively coarse-grained anatectic paragranodiorite and coarse-grained crystal granite (named after the large potassium feldspar large crystals), between which a medium-grain two-mica granite has penetrated, are exposed. Outcrops can be found around the castle hill. | 32 8 × 4 |
Type: rock type, contact, wool sack formation Type: granodiorite, granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural park | |
Former quarry E von Riedmühle |
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276A002 |
Viechtach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | At the edge of the pile quartz there are 20 m thick ultramylonites, the mineral content of which shows a diaphtoritic transformation. | 1200 60 × 20 |
Type: Rock Type: Ultramylonite |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Outcrop at the Metten SE pile | 276A005 |
Rain position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Pile quartz was cut through the road construction. The course of the hardship's train can also be clearly seen here. | 1500 150 × 10 |
Type: Rock type, Fault type: Vein quartz |
embankment | inferior | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former pegmatite quarry Poschingerhütte ENE von Arnbruck | 276A006 |
Arnbruck position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Upcoming is (or was) a stick-shaped pegmatite in sharp contact with biotite-plagioclase gneisses. Although the outcrop is quite overgrown, it opens up the pegmatite very nicely. The center of the pegmatite consists of coarse quartz. Outwardly, quartz and feldspar follow, with some large feldspars, as well as areas with oriented intergrowth between quartz and feldspar (so-called font granite). The pegmatite was mined in Poschingerhütte for quartz extraction for the glass industry. | 60 15 × 4 |
Type: Rock Type , Mineral Type: Pegmatite |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Birkenhöhe pegmatite block in Zwiesel | 276A007 |
Zwiesel position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | In the green area at the entrance to the parish center is a single pegmatite block with large quartz, feldspar and biotite crystals. In places it also contains black tourmaline. Another small block is right next to the access path. The blocks represent the last remnants of a pegmatite quarry from which the mineral Zwieselite was first described. The blocks have grown pretty much into bushes by now. | 1 1 × 1 |
Type: Minerals Type: Pegmatite |
block | significant | Natural park | ||
Former quarry NW of Spiegelhütte | 276A008 |
Lindberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The former quarry shows heavily folded, very variable gneisses with calcium silicate rock and marble parts. The break has now completely grown over. Rock and metamorphic structures can only be seen on a few wall areas. | 80 40 × 2 |
Type: Rock type, metamorphic structure Type: Cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss, biotite-plagioclase-gneiss, calcium silicate rock |
Quarry | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Former quarries at Geißruck N von Hausermühle | 276A010 |
Zachenberg position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the quarry, medium-grain granite is exposed to contact with anatexites. In the contact area, the granite shows reactions such as the formation of aplit fringe and large potassium feldspar crystals. The anatexites generally have a distinct texture. There are stored e.g. Partly broken and deformed feldspar sparrows. Due to the proximity of the pile, the rock shows clear characteristics of tectonic overprinting. Due to backfilling and recultivation, only part of the quarry has survived. | 1200 60 × 20 |
Type: rock type, contact, metamorphic structure Type: granite, anatexite |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quarry on Hieselberg NW of Hochbruck | 276A011 |
Bischofsmais position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the former quarry on Hieselberg, dark, fine-grain quartz mica diorites are exposed. The diorites are partially traversed by quartz and aplite passages. At the edge of the contact with the host rock (anatectic gneiss), the diorite is accompanied by light granite passages. The structure of the rocks clearly shows a tectonic overprint. The diorites are strikingly textured. The quarry is overgrown and the exposed walls are difficult to access. | 1250 50 × 25 |
Type: Rock Type: Diorite, Granite |
Quarry | significant | Natural park | ||
Former quarry at Teufelstisch NW of Bischofsmais | 276A012 |
Bischofsmais position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the former quarry there is medium-grain granite, which usually has a directionless structure, but also weakly textured in layers (parallel to the pile fault). The granite shows a clear fissure. Mineral finds (quartz, feldspar, fluorspar, rutile, etc.) were formerly found on fissures. | 3600 120 × 30 |
Type: Rock Type , Minerals Type: Granite |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quartz quarry SE from Eging | 276A013 |
Kollnburg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The abandoned quarry opens up pile quartz on two levels. | 8800 220 × 40 |
Type: Rock type, Fault type: Vein quartz |
Quarry | inferior | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Underground passages in Zwiesel under the town square | 276A015 |
Zwiesel position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The exact age and function of the underground passages (refuge castle?) In the crystal substitute, which were originally several 100 m long and up to 20 m deep, is unknown. The passage under the bakery reveals granite penetrated into the gneiss with pegmatite passages. The crystalline is completely decomposed, but shows the original structure in detail. The corridors can be viewed on guided tours. | 50 25 × 2 |
Type: Type of rock, contact, metamorphic structure, minerals, storage conditions, tunnels Type: Cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss, pegmatite, granite |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | significant | Natural park | ||
Former pegmatite pit NE of Böbrach (Hubertus pegmatite) | 276A016 |
Böbrach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The Hubertus pegmatite is a zonal pegmatite dike up to about 6 m thick. The beginnings of quartz mining may go back to the end of the 18th century. What has been preserved is a trench-like pinge that merges into underground mining and heaps. In the small underground mine remains of the largely dismantled quartz core of the pegmatite are exposed. In quartz you can see feldspar crystals up to 20 cm in length. | 60 12 × 5 |
Type: minerals, rock type, tunnel type: pegmatite |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Street exposure S of Kohlplatz near Bodenmais | 276A017 |
Bodenmais position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Metatectic to anatectic cordierite-sillimanite gneisses are exposed on state road St2132 south of Bodenmais. Some of these light-colored gneisses have a striking garnet. A large number of metamorphic structural features (such as banding, folds, inclusion of clods, etc.) can be seen in the exposure. Almost directionless structures alternate with clearly oriented structures in a narrow space. | 3750 250 × 15 |
Type: Type of rock, metamorphic structure Type: Cordierite-Sillimanite-Gneiss |
embankment | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Road exposure W from Fahrnbach | 276A021 |
Bischofsmais position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the embankment there are medium to fine-grain quartz diorites (variable composition: granodiorite, tonalite to diorite), which are interspersed with granitic and pegmatitic corridors. The quartz diorites are deformed to different degrees. | 50 50 × 1 |
Type: Rock type, metamorphic structure Type: diorite, granodiorite, tonalite |
embankment | precious | Natural park | ||
Pegmatite pit on the Hennenkobel NW of Rabenstein |
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276G001 |
Zwiesel position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Pegmatites are large to giant-grained dike rocks, some of which contain rare and beautifully formed crystals. The quartz core of the pegmatite on the Hennenkobel was mined in opencast and underground mining for glass production. The dismantling wall was exposed again in 2002. Granite and pegmatite are exposed there. The mining tunnel is closed. The pegmatite pit on the Hennenkobel became known through various mineral finds (e.g. first determination of triphyline, a phosphate mineral). | 16000 200 × 80 |
Type: tunnel, type locality, quarry / pit, minerals Type: pegmatite |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Silberberg Bodenmais show mine |
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276G002 |
Bodenmais position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | In the poly-metamorphic sulphide deposit, mining took place at least since 1436 (until 1952). At first, the focus was on metal production, later vitriol and polishing red were also extracted. Over 80 minerals have been described from the Silberberg sulphide ore occurrence. In the show mine, impressive tours through tunnels and huge cavities of the old mine are offered. The geotope is one of Bavaria's hundred most beautiful geotopes and is explained on site with a corresponding information board. | 160000 400 × 400 |
Type: Tunnels, Minerals Type: Gneiss |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | especially valuable | Nature park, protected landscape area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 17 |
Former Rotkot mine on Kellerberg N von Zwiesel | 276G003 |
Zwiesel position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Sulphidic ores were broken down on the red droppings. The main ores are magnetic and sulfur pyrites, but copper pyrites, zinc blende and galena also occur. The side rock of the sulphide deposit is garnet-leading cordierite gneiss. First documented mention as early as 1580. The tunnel was operated from 1893 to 1952. The tunnel entrance is closed. In the vicinity there are heaps where sulphide minerals, but also a lot of limonitic material (iron hydroxide) can be found. | 9 3 × 3 |
Type: Gallery Type: Gneiss |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Grübenfeld in the Rannenau | 276G006 |
Lindberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The morphological landforms typical for gold soap mining are called pits. These are e.g. B. funnel pits, trenches, heaps (= soap mounds) and sewer systems. The pit field in the Rannenau at the upper Höllbach shows z. Some very nicely preserved soap mounds. In the vicinity of the Höllbach, the tracks are washed out by occasional flooding. For gold panning, the river gravel was mined up to 5 m below the top of the site. Further mine fields are located downstream. | 80000 800 × 100 |
Type: Soap Laundry, Pinge Field Type: Gravel |
Ping | significant | National park, ground monument, landscape protection area | ||
Pegmatite mining table height | 276G010 |
Frauenau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The quartz pits in the area of Tafelhöhe above Spiegelstrasse probably date from the middle of the 19th century. Numerous heaps, several pings and a short tunnel in pegmatite, as well as a closed underground tunnel in gneiss, testify to the mining activity (quartz for the glassworks). In the short underground mine, the contact between gneiss and zonal pegmatite is open. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Pinge / nfeld, Stollen Type: pegmatite, cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Grübenfeld am Mühlenbach near Unterried | 276G011 |
Drachselsried position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Approx. 1 km northeast of Unterried, an up to 100 m wide Grübenfeld stretches along the Mühlenbach (Schönbach / Hochfellbach) for about 1300 m. Along the creek, the very coarse stream sediment seems to have been dug up and the fine fraction between the coarse rubble has grown. The mining traces in the ascent to Mühlenberg - with the absence of soap mounds - indicate that in this area in the weathered bedrock a primary gold mineralization could have been the mining target. | 130000 1300 × 100 |
Type: Soap laundry, Schurf Type: Cordierite-Sillimanite-Gneiss |
other information | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Grübenfeld on Rothbach E from Böbrach | 276G012 |
Böbrach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Soap hills accompany the course of the Rothbach over a length of almost 1,000 m. The relics of gold panning, up to 5 m high, consist of rubble of gneiss, quartz and granite. The late Middle Ages (oldest documented mention in 1312) and the early modern period are likely to be considered the heyday for the extraction of soap gold. However, there are no historically reliable details regarding the start of the gold prospecting or the yield. A circular hiking trail around Bodenmais and Böbrach (white on blue 4) opens up the area. The property is under special protection as a ground monument (monument no. D-2-6944-0052). | 60000 600 × 100 |
Type: Soap Laundry Type: Gravel |
Ping | precious | Soil monument, landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Grübenfeld in the Gschwend | 276G013 |
Lindberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The morphological landforms typical for gold soap mining are called pits. These are e.g. B. funnel pits, trenches, heaps (= soap mounds) and sewer systems. The Grübenfeld in the Gschwend am Kolbersbach shows z. Some very nicely preserved soap mounds. For gold panning, the river gravel was mined up to 5 m below the top of the site. Further pit fields are located upstream. The area is largely protected as a medieval-early modern gold soap hill area under No. 920987 as a ground monument. | 150,000 600 × 250 |
Type: Soap Laundry Type: Gravel |
Ping | significant | National park, ground monument, FFH area | ||
Soap hill at Schwellhäusl |
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276G014 |
Bayerisch Eisenstein position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | On the slopes of the Falkenstein massif, traces of former gold mining can be found in various places. The cordierite-sillimanite-gneisses, the main rock of the Falkenstein massif, are deeply weathered in some areas, so that the weathering masses also shifted along the small streams. The gold, which is finely distributed in these rocks, was only transported over very short distances in this way. The very slight deformation of the gold grains, with angular and sometimes bizarre gold grains, speaks in favor of such a short transport route. The property is under special protection as a ground monument (monument no. D-2-6945-0057) | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Soap Laundry Type: Cordierite-Sillimanite-Gneiss |
other information | significant | National park, ground monument, FFH area | |
Grübenfeld Fürhaupten / Theresienthal | 276G015 |
Zwiesel position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | To the north of Theresiental near the Fürhaupten Nord industrial park are the remains of what was originally at least 50,000 m² in size, of which around 12,000 m² were preserved and taken into account in the designation of the industrial area. Gold was once panned here. In particular, the agricultural activity on the edge of the Zwiesel basin and regular floods are likely to be responsible for the leveling of the degradation tracks near the river. The traces of degradation in the forest south of the Fürhaupten road are in the best state of preservation. The object is under special protection as a ground monument (monument no. D-2-6945-0003) | 15000 150 × 100 |
Type: Soap Laundry Type: Cordierite-Sillimanite-Gneiss |
other information | significant | Soil monument, nature park | ||
Moosbacher post NE by Moosbach |
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276R001 |
Prackenbach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Elongated, partially interrupted pile quartz train, which rises as a distinctive ridge above the surrounding landscape. Individual rock ridges and blocks can be found in the ridge area. | 36000 1200 × 30 |
Type: hard rock, rock wall / slope, fault type: vein quartz |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Large stake near Viechtach |
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276R002 |
Viechtach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The towering rock wall made of pile quartz near Viechtach is probably one of the most striking shapes on the entire pile. To the west there is a former quarry where pile quartz was extracted. A nature trail explains the special features of the region. The pile is the quartzized core of the pile zone, a fault zone that runs through the entire Bavarian Forest from NW to SE, which was carved out of the tertiary weathering by the Pleistocene erosion. | 105000 1500 × 70 |
Type: hard rock, rock wall / slope, rock tower / needle, fault, rock type: vein quartz |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 1 |
Fellerhof yard post NE |
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276R003 |
Kollnburg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The courtyard post is a ridge that is morphologically distinct from the surroundings. At several points on the distinctive ridge of the hill, the pile quartz forms rock cliffs up to 6 m high with steep rock walls. The pile quartz was created by excretions from hydrothermal solutions that penetrated the shear and pinnate crevices along the depth fault (= pile fault). Movements during and after the quartz deposition led to the brecciated structure of the pile quartz. | 240000 800 × 300 |
Type: Hard , Fault Type: Vein quartz, ultramylonite |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Antonius stake near Viechtach |
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276R004 |
Viechtach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | Morphologically distinctive wall of the post with individual rocks, chapel and Stations of the Cross (Antonius post). The pile quartz is unlocked at the road penetration. | 42000 1400 × 30 |
Type: Hard, Fault Type: Quartz |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Rieslochfall NE from Bodenmais |
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276R006 |
Bodenmais position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | A hydrological measuring station is located below the water-rich cascades with a height of the lower drop of 15 m. The Riesbach Falls can be reached via two signposted paths. | 120 20 × 6 |
Type: Waterfall Type: Gneiss |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Arbersee with Arbersee walls |
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276R007 |
Bayerisch Eisenstein position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The cirque was created by multiple local glaciations in the Quaternary. The walls have glacial cuts. The Arbersee can be addressed as both Karsee and Zungenbeckensee. | 720000 900 × 800 |
Type: Kar, glacier cut, tongue basin lake Type: Gneiss, moraine |
Slope crack / rock wall | especially valuable | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Wall moraines on the Arbersee | 276R008 |
Bayerisch Eisenstein position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | A total of four chains of wall moraines can be seen on the Arber, which are associated with stages during the Worm Ice Age. | 850000 850 × 1000 |
Type: End (wall) moraine Type: Moraine |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Valley of the Black Rain between Metten and Teisnach |
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276R009 |
Teisnach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | In the tectonically laid out NW-SE trending rain basin, a drainage system developed from the Oligocene onwards. The river system, which meanders on leveled areas, was bound by lowering the erosion base from around the Upper Miocene onwards. In the course of the Pleistocene, the river sank deeper and deeper and today's Kerbtal was created. There are many boulders on the valley flanks and in the river bed. Rock cliffs (gneiss) emerge on the steep valley flanks. | 1600000 8000 × 200 |
Type: Meander, Kerbtal, Prallhang Type: Gneiss, Diorite |
no information | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | |
Summit ridge of the Teufelstisch NW of Bischofsmais |
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276R010 |
Bischofsmais position |
Front Bavarian Forest | Along the ridge of the Teufelstisch there are several summit cliffs made of fine to medium-grain granite, which usually show a mattress-shaped wool sack weathering. The granites usually show a clear regulation of the crystals, which is due to tectonic overprinting. From the summit to NE there is a sea of boulders. Summit cliffs and boulder seas are the result of Pleistocene erosion and weathering. | 4000 400 × 10 |
Type: Felsburg, Blockmeer Type: Granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Weissenstein NW stake |
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276R011 |
Rain position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | With a length of over 100 km, the pile is one of the most important tectonic structures in Bavaria. The hydrothermal quartz filling of the fracture structure often forms hardnesses. The approx. 30 m high battlements of the Weißenstein were exposed by Pleistocene erosion and form one of the most striking shapes in the pile. | 128000 1600 × 80 |
Type: Felsburg, Härtling, fault, rock type: Vein quartz |
Slope crack / rock wall | especially valuable | Nature reserve, FFH area, nature park | |
Aitnachtal S from Viechtach |
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276R013 |
Kollnburg position |
Front Bavarian Forest | Valley of the Aitnach between Kirchaitnach and its confluence with the Schwarzen Regen: The valley system of the NS running valley, in which the Aitnach meanders many times today, took place in the Old Tertiary. A weak talasymmetry can be seen, which results from the periglacial conditions in the Pleistocene. Upon reaching the pile, the river initially flows parallel to the pile up to the steep-walled but extensive pile breakthrough. | 1950000 6500 × 300 |
Type: Asymmetrical valley, meander Type: gravel |
no information | significant | Natural park | |
Summit of the Großer Arber with Richard Wagner's head |
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276R014 |
Bodenmais position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | In the summit area of the Großer Arber there are several rock castles made of metatectic cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss. The Bodenmaiser bar, also known as the Richard Wagner head, is particularly striking. A natural history trail leads over the summit plateau. | 100000 400 × 250 |
Type: rock castle, metamorphic structure, rock type: gneiss |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | FFH area, bird sanctuary, nature park | |
High fall in Moosbachtal NW of Bodenmais |
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276R016 |
Bodenmais position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The high fall, a 6 - 8 m high, multi-level waterfall into a brook pump, is the most impressive of the numerous waterfalls in the Moosbachtal. The anatectic gneiss is exposed in the stream bed with beautiful pools. The waterfall (natural monument) is accessible via a marked hiking trail. | 240 40 × 6 |
Type: Waterfall Type: Gneiss |
Impact slope / river bed / stream profile | significant | Natural monument, landscape protection area, nature park | |
Large stake near Viechtach, northwest part |
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276R018 |
Viechtach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The pile zone, which runs through the entire Bavarian Forest from NW to SE, is one of the most important tectonic structures in Bavaria with a length of more than 100 km. Areas where hydrothermal vein quartz was precipitated in the fracture zone are now often seen in the landscape as hardships. They were uncovered by the Pleistocene erosion, like this striking hardened ring made of pile quartz with several rock cliffs in a beautiful landscape. | 5000 250 × 20 |
Type: hard rock, rock tower / needle, fault, rock type: vein quartz |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Silberberg SE summit area from Bodenmais (Bischofshaube) |
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276R019 |
Bodenmais position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The Bischofshaube is the striking double summit of the Silberberg near Bodenmais. It was created by mining or weathering concordant sulphide ore layers in the gneiss. There are numerous former opencast and underground mines in the area, which testify to centuries of ore mining. | 60000 300 × 200 |
Type: rocky dome, open-cast mining, minerals Type: gneiss |
no information | precious | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Steinbachfall at Falkenstein E from Zwieslerwaldhaus |
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276R020 |
Lindberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The water of the Steinbach overcomes a gneiss sub-step running parallel to the slope in several small waterfall steps (approx. 10 m in total). This gneiss with a multitude of metamorphic structures (layers, folds, quartz lenses and bands) is beautifully exposed right on the hiking trail next to the waterfall. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: waterfall, rock type, metamorphic structure Type: gneiss |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Summit cliff of the Kleiner Falkenstein E from Zwieslerwaldhaus |
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276R021 |
Lindberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The summit of the Kleiner Falkenstein consists of an imposing gneiss summit cliff broken up into several clods. In some places beautiful gneiss structures can be observed on the rock walls: z. For example, the gneiss shows a layer structure with thicknesses of the individual layers <1 mm and fold structures in the cm-dm range. From the summit you have a beautiful view of the Bavarian Forest. | 2000 100 × 20 |
Type: rock castle, type of rock, metamorphic structure Type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Summit cliff of the Großer Falkenstein SE from Zwieslerwaldhaus |
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276R022 |
Lindberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The summit area of the Großer Falkenstein is built up by a gneiss cliff that breaks off vertically to the west. The current appearance of the summit goes back to the Ice Age exposure of relatively unweathered rock areas through the removal of the tertiary weathering cover, as well as frost weathering and frost blasting. Various gneiss structures can be seen on the numerous, almost flat surfaces perpendicular to the rock structure, e.g. B. Quartz lenses up to 0.3 m in diameter. | 2000 100 × 20 |
Type: Crag, type of rock, metamorphic structure Type: Cordierite-Sillimanite-Gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Höllbachgspreng and Höllbachfall E from Zwieslerwaldhaus |
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276R023 |
Lindberg position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The stream and rock section on the steeply sloping eastern flank of the Großer Falkenstein was already out of use in the 19th century and thus placed under protection. The slope is interspersed with rock cliffs made of gneiss over the entire height. The Höllbach overcomes the rocky areas in several small waterfall steps, the highest of which - the Höllbachfall - is approx. 5 m. Höllbachsee and -schwelle at the bottom of the glacial valley were artificially changed in order to make the wood drift possible. | 400000 800 × 500 |
Type: rock wall / slope, waterfall, rock type, metamorphic structure Type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss, biotite-plagioclase-gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Gneiss cliff NE of Rabenstein | 276R025 |
Ruhmannsfelden position |
Front Bavarian Forest | To the northeast of the hamlet of Rabenstein there is a hard ridge. Gneiss cliffs are hidden in the wood directly behind the houses, which form a good outcrop and show the different weathering behavior of the rocks. The cliff itself, with a distinctive foliation structure sloping diagonally into the slope, consists of pearl gneiss and quartz mica diorite. At the top there are numerous blocks of anatectic gneiss (paragranodiorite). | 160 20 × 8 |
Type: Hard rock, type of rock, type of storage : anatexite, gneiss, quartz diorite |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Natural park | ||
Solifluction blocks in the Prackenbachtal W of Steinhof |
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276R026 |
Prackenbach position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | On the valley flanks of the Prackenbach valley above Steinhof there are loose block streams with blocks of gneiss and anatexite. During the cold periods under permafrost conditions, these blocks made their way down to the valley floor on floating earth as hiking blocks. The blocks were removed from the fields as far as possible for agricultural use. However, individual large blocks (too heavy to transport) are stored on the spot in the meadows and on or in the stream. | 200000 1000 × 200 |
Type: Solifluction phenomenon Type: Anatexite, blocks, clay |
block | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Habichtstein NE of Kirchdorf | 276R027 |
Kirchberg in the forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The Habichtstein is an imposing double cliff made of gneiss with vertical or overhanging walls up to 20 m high on all sides. There is a narrow passage between the two rock towers. An ensemble of blocks and cliffs connects to the bottom and west. This is also where a loose block flow begins. Gneiss structures can be seen on the weathered rock on the west side of the Habichtsstein. | 450 30 × 15 |
Type: rock castle, rock tower / needle Type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Hochmoorgebiet Todtenau SE from Dösingerried |
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276R028 |
Kirchberg in the forest position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The high moor core area of Todtenau is one of the most important high moor areas in the Upper Bavarian Forest. In the center, peat thicknesses of 8.5 m are achieved. The peat formation started more than 13,000 years ago with fens. This is followed by intermediate bog peat and raised bog peat for more than 10,000 years. Due to the conservation of pollen, peatland profiles are unique archives of the history of climate, vegetation and settlement. | 210000 700 × 300 |
Type: raised bog Type: peat |
no information | significant | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Great Rachel's summit cliffs |
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276R029 |
Frauenau position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The summit of the Großer Rachel consists of a summit cliff made of gneiss (metatectical cordierite gneiss with biotite-plagioclase gneiss). A large number of metamorphic structural features can be observed in the rock directly in the summit area: layer structure, fold structures in the cm to dm range, numerous quartz lenses, partial mobilization of bright components (leukosomes) that pervade the rock formation in a concordant and discordant manner. | 500 50 × 10 |
Type: rocky dome, metamorphic structure, rock type: gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | National park, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Teisnach between Gotteszell and Ruhmannsfelden |
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276R030 |
God's cell position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the section of the river between Gotteszell and Ruhmannsfelden, the Teisnach meanders very strongly. The meanders directly at Gotteszell are very even. After that, the river enters the large valley basin south of Ruhmannsfelden, facing towards the SN, with further typical river meanders. The selected river passage is a characteristic example of meandering waters, as they are relatively common in the Bavarian Forest. | 10000 2000 × 5 |
Type: Meander Type: Clay |
no information | significant | Natural park | |
Rocks on Wagensonnriegel NW of Althütte | 276R033 |
Kirchberg in the forest position |
Rear Bavarian Forest | The rocks at the lookout point and on the hiking trail on the ridge line of the car sun bolt consist of metatectic cordierite-sillimanite-potassium feldspar-gneiss with biotite-plagioclase-gneiss and calcium silicate inclusions. You are e.g. T. heavily folded. | 4000 100 × 40 |
Type: rock wall / slope, metamorphic structure Type: cordierite-sillimanite-gneiss |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park |
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Hinterholz mussel shell mine | 277A001 |
Simbach am Inn position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The aboveground and underground outcrops on the Antersdorfer Bach near the former Hinterholz mussel schill mine are the type locality of the Schill horizon of the oncophora layers (brackish water molasses). The Schillhorizont was mined in many small chicken feed mines between 1913 and 1965. The shell fragments were washed and used as a chicken feed supplement to improve the shell formation of the eggs. The up to 40 cm thick Schill horizon consists mainly of mussel shells. It serves as a guide horizon and separates the flour sands from the mica sands. The outcrops have collapsed a bit. | 100 20 × 5 |
Type: Type locality, Animal fossils, Layer sequence Type: Sand |
Gravel pit / sand pit | especially valuable | no protected area | ||
Former gravel pit near Kraham S von Johanniskirchen | 277A009 |
Johanniskirchen position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the gravel pit, which is now abandoned, weathered gravel was mined earlier, which, unlike the northern full gravel, is completely decalcified, but which, unlike the residual quartz gravel, still contains crumbly crystalline oil and pebbly sediments (Steinebacher facies). The northern full gravel can easily be recognized as the starting material. The outcrop areas that have remained after the end of the dismantling and have not yet collapsed are difficult to access. | 65 65 × 1 |
Type: Rock Type: Gravel |
Quarry | significant | no protected area | ||
Former sand pit in Lugenz ENE von Birnbach | 277A010 |
Bad Birnbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | Under the upper edge of the former gravel pit lies an approx. 1.5 m thick quartz conglomerate. This is widespread in the region and gave rise to the Lugens plateau. | 240 80 × 3 |
Type: Rock type, Fossil soil Type: Quartz conglomerate, gravel |
Gravel pit / sand pit | significant | no protected area | ||
Gravel pit NE of Amsham | 277A011 |
Egglham position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the gravel pit, first loess loam and then the approximately 1–2 m thick quartz conglomerate horizon is exposed (broken into individual blocks). Below this are the gravel of the residual quartz gravel. Gravel horizons and sandy layers show a narrow alternation. Iron and manganese hydroxide were excreted to varying degrees. The upper area of the gravel body is brownish and yellowish in color, while the lower meters appear strikingly light. | 1000 50 × 20 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: Quartz conglomerate, gravel |
Gravel pit / sand pit | precious | no protected area | ||
Hohlweg NW of Dötling | 277A013 |
Simbach am Inn position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The imposing ravine, with steep walls up to 5 m high, opens up a profile through the Oncophora layers, sediments of the brackish water molasse. The lower part lies in flour sands (at least 8 m thick). Shortly after the path turns to S, you can see the mussel shell horizon (1 - 2 dm), followed by at least 10 m of mica sand. At the edge of the forest SE of the ravine, the underlying marl of the Upper Sea Molasse are cut on a slope crack (next to a tiled storage area). | 2000 500 × 4 |
Type: Layer sequence, rock type, ravine, animal fossils Type: sand |
Pit / canal / ravine | precious | no protected area | ||
Steghub Muschelschill Mine | 277G001 |
Simbach am Inn position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The tunnel in Steghub is evidence of the lively mining activity on limestone dishes in the Simbach area in the first half of the 20th century. In many small mines, the up to 40 cm thick shell horizon was mined from mussel shells from the Oncophora layers (brackish water molasses) for use as an additive for chicken feed. The tunnel mouth hole is partially moored and the entrance route is covered with concrete. After the connected route the tunnel collapsed. A big break in the day above (photo 4) should still be in motion. | 9 3 × 3 |
Type: Studs, Animal Fossils Type: Sand |
Tunnel / gallery / shaft | significant | Natural monument | ||
Blockstrom Kaser Steinstube SW from Voglarn |
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277R001 |
Triftern position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The impressive block flow of the Kaser Steinstube begins below the quartz conglomerate horizon, which is broken into large slabs at the edge of the plateau, and stretches down the slope for more than 100 m. A temporary stream flows through it. Some of the quartz conglomerate blocks pile up on top of one another and form small cover caves. The formation of the block flow occurred in the Pleistocene at times of increased erosion and soil flow in the periglacial area. | 800 80 × 10 |
Type: Block Stream Type: Quartz Conglomerate |
block | precious | Natural monument | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 53 |
Crocodile Rock E from Landerham | 277R002 |
Bad Birnbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | This quartz conglomerate block, which when viewed from the south-east has a crocodile-like shape, forms a landmark that can be seen from afar in an open field. The block is the remainder of a formerly more widespread conglomerate cover and probably slipped from its originally higher location in the Pleistocene within a solifluction cover. As is often the case in the quartz conglomerate bank, the block shows a change in grain size from gravel (conglomerate) to sand (sandstone). | 21 7 × 3 |
Type: Boulder Type: Quartz conglomerate |
block | significant | Natural monument | ||
Quartz conglomerate blocks in Unterhitzling | 277R003 |
Bad Birnbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In Unterhitzling there are several large blocks of quartz conglomerate that represent the remainder of a solifluction ceiling. At the top of the residual quartz gravel, a 1 - 3 m thick quartzitic conglomerate cover formed in the Tertiary. As a result of erosion and outflow of the underlying gravel, the breaking of the quartz conglomerate cover and the sliding of the blocks during the Pleistocene, the blocks are now below the surface on a secondary deposit. | 24 6 × 4 |
Type: Boulder Type: Quartz conglomerate |
block | significant | no protected area | ||
Block stream with Hitzlinger Bach N from Unterhitzling | 277R004 |
Bad Birnbach position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The meandering stream bed of the Hitzlinger Bach is accompanied by numerous blocks of quartz conglomerate. With stronger water flow, the creek forms small waterfalls at steeper passages. The blocks are evidence of a Pleistocene solifluction cover. The blocks originate from the quartz conglomerate bank that is extinguishing on the upper slope and have reached their current location through erosion and slope sliding. Rinsing out the fine material has exposed the blocks in the stream bed. | 4000 200 × 20 |
Type: Block Stream Type: Quartz Conglomerate |
block | significant | no protected area | ||
The Heldenstein boulder near Maierhof N von Simbach | 277R005 |
Simbach am Inn position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The Heldenstein is a quartz conglomerate block on a secondary deposit. The transition from quartz conglomerate to quartzitic sandstone can be seen in the rock. The block came to its current location by sliding down the slope. It is the remains of a quartzitic conglomerate cover formed in the Miocene in the top of the residual quartz gravel. The rearrangement occurred mainly during the Pleistocene. The block has been provided with a granite plaque. | 9 3 × 3 |
Type: Boulder Type: Quartz conglomerate |
block | significant | Natural monument | ||
Boulder SE from Niedereck | 277R006 |
Simbach am Inn position |
Isar-Inn hill country | The large quartz conglomerate block on the western bank of the stream is the remainder of a quartz conglomerate cover still pending in higher elevations. By sliding down the slope, it reached its current position. Quartz conglomerate blocks on secondary deposits are more common in the county. The redistribution took place mainly during the Pleistocene glacial periods through soil flow. | 16 4 × 4 |
Type: Boulder Type: Quartz conglomerate |
block | significant | Natural monument | ||
Block stream in the Eckinger Klamm SW from Ecking | 277R007 |
Triftern position |
Isar-Inn hill country | At the Eckinger Bach there is a block flow of quartz conglomerate with blocks piled on top of each other in the upper area of the brook. The block current formation took place in the Pleistocene under periglacial conditions. Conglomerate blocks loosened from the bond by frost weathering and erosion slid down into the valley on solifluction ceilings (floor tiles). The exposure occurred through erosion of the fine material in the area of watercourses. | 5000 200 × 25 |
Type: Block Stream, Kerbtal Type: Quartz conglomerate |
block | precious | Landscape protection area | ||
Valley with Blockstrom SE from Pelkering | 277R008 |
Triftern position |
Isar-Inn hill country | In the area of the ravine-like creek cut, blocks of quartz conglomerate form a block flow. On the upper slope of the valley there is the quartz conglomerate with a 2 m high steep step. As a result of erosion and the flowing out of the underlying quartz gravel, a groove is created which causes further quartz conglomerate blocks to break down and slide off. The block current formation in the Pleistocene periglacial area can thus progress to a lesser extent in recent times. | 800 80 × 10 |
Type: Block Stream, Kerbtal, Rock Type: Quartz conglomerate |
block | precious | Landscape protection area |
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Road exposure on the Aigenberg NE of Gneißen |
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278A002 |
Rattenberg position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The road outcrop cuts a fault zone (mylonite) in pearl-gneiss-like cordierite-sillimanite gneiss . Rocks are found next to each other that still show a pronounced layer structure, while others are dominated by a pearl structure. In some areas, there is a noticeable network of vertical movement areas with partially pronounced harness straps. The outcrop belongs to an approximately 1.5 km wide and more than 15 km long NNW-SSE fault zone of a secondary pile. | 800 200 × 4 |
Type: fault, rock type: mylonite, gneiss |
embankment | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Road outcrop N of Pürgl | 278A003 |
Haibach position |
Front Bavarian Forest | Cordierite-sillimanite gneisses with pearl texture are lining the street. The rocks show a transformation of layer gneisses due to the beginning anatexis, whereby there are structural changes due to the dissolution of the parallel texture. Further information can be found in the village. A small quarry on the Kehre (in the east), which has now completely overgrown, previously opened up a granite passage. | 6000 600 × 10 |
Type: Rock Type: Cordierite-Sillimanite-Gneiss, Gneiss |
embankment | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Former quarry on Kirchenberg N of Pilgramsberg |
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278A004 |
Rattiszell position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the former quarry there is medium-grain granodiorite with partially flat mineral regulation. The granodiorite contains sharply defined clods of various other rocks: e.g. B. Biotite plagioclase ribbon gneiss, large potash feldspar crystals, quartz mica diorite. Some of the inclusions are rotated. The quarry is part of the Pilgramsberg adventure trail. (Geological corner table with explanations on granite and gneiss). | 600 40 × 15 |
Type: Rock Type: Granodiorite, Anatexite |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Former quarry near Espern |
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278A005 |
Niederwinkling position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The heavily overgrown abandoned quarry is located on the south side of the Welchenberg in the area of a Pleistocene slope of the Danube. Pearl gneiss is pending in the quarry, which is hardly mylonitized despite the proximity of the Danube marginal fault. There are deposits of carbonates and calcareous silicate horn rocks. Quartz blocks with large quartz crystals (streaking of the hypidiomorphically grown crystals) at the bottom are evidence of the degradation of a pegmatoid duct rock. | 1600 80 × 20 |
Type: Rock, Minerals Type: Gneiss, Vein quartz |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Quarry N of Anning |
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278A006 |
Bow position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the partially filled quarry there are tectonically heavily stressed gneisses in the area of the Danube rim fracture . Here the pearl gneiss is largely mylonitized and converted into vintner gneiss. On the quarry wall, folds can be seen in the dm area. Further evidence of the tectonic stress: strong fissures, armor surfaces, sheared areas. | 600 20 × 30 |
Type: rock type, fault type: gneiss, mylonite |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Quartz exposure W from Steinach Castle |
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278A007 |
Steinach position |
Front Bavarian Forest | On the northwest side of the main building there is quartz and mylonite from a secondary pile. This locality is one of the rare places in the Upper Bavarian Forest where stake quartz (secondary stake) is exposed. | 250 25 × 10 |
Type: Rock type, Fault type: Vein quartz |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural park | |
Former quarry on Buchberg SW of Münster |
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278A008 |
Steinach position |
Dungau | In the former quarry, karst limestone from the Voglarn Formation (Lower White Jura) is located, which was raised as a clod on a staggered quarry in the course of the Danube rim fault. In the karst cavities of the White Jurassic Limestone, rocks from the Cretaceous period ( protective rock formation ) have been preserved. These Mesozoic rocks are covered by a Worm Ice Age solifluction cover with densely packed gravel. The quarry is located in the fenced area of a water intake and has since grown over a lot. | 1200 60 × 20 |
Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone, sandstone |
Quarry | especially valuable | Nature reserve, FFH area, nature park | |
Quarry on the southern slope of the Helmberg SE von Wiedenhof |
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278A009 |
Steinach position |
Dungau | The former covering of the crystalline rocks of the Bavarian Forest by sedimentary rocks from the Mesozoic era can only be proven in a few places. The quarry on Helmberg is one of the very rare occurrences. Rocks from the White Jurassic and those from the Cretaceous period have been developed here above the crystalline. The latter can be found in the form of the protective rock formation in karst crevices of the intensely karstified lower Weißjura (Voglarn formation). The marly Jurassic limestones are rich in fossils (e.g. cup sponges). The occurrence owes its existence to the Danube rim fault, which has brought it into its current position. | 1250 50 × 25 |
Type: Standard / Reference Profile Type: Limestone, Sandstone |
Quarry | especially valuable | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | |
Former quarry on Helmberg SW von Steinach | 278A012 |
Steinach position |
Dungau | The carbonate to clayey bound sandstones of the Sandbach Formation prove that in the Upper Cretaceous the area of today's Bavarian Forest was at least marginally under marine cover. Note: since the correct entry of the Sandbach Formation in the geological designation in the BIS is currently not possible, the incorrect classification of lumpy sand is used as a placeholder until further notice (Pürner: April 27, 2015) | 200 40 × 5 |
Type: Rock Type: Limestone |
Quarry | precious | Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area | ||
Former granite quarry SE from Siegersdorf | 278A017 |
Rattenberg position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The granite that was formerly mined in this small quarry (heavily overgrown) has changed in texture and mineral stock due to a side pile fault. B. the biotites are clearly arranged in parallel. In the vicinity there is an overgrown stream of granite blocks naturally broken by the frost blast in the Pleistocene, as well as numerous artificially broken blocks. In comparison, the round edges of the old blocks stand out against the sharp edges of the young ones. | 1250 50 × 25 |
Type: Rock Type: Granite |
Quarry | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | ||
Gravel pits NW of Perkam |
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278A018 |
Perkam position |
Dungau | In the gravel pits, high terrace gravel is exposed on the edge of the Straubing Plain (Pleistocene Danube Valley). Not far from the pits, the edge of the terrace runs to the younger gravel of the valley of the Kleine Laber. The pit wall shows crystalline gravel (high proportion of quartz) and fine-grained intermediate layers with numerous sediment structures and iron and manganese precipitates. | 10000 200 × 50 |
Type: sequence of layers, sediment structures Type: gravel, crushed stone, sand |
Gravel pit / sand pit | precious | no protected area | |
Quarry NW of Pfelling |
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278A019 |
Bow position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the small abandoned quarry between Pfelling and Anning, pearl gneisses are pending, which are strongly tectonically overprinted due to their position in the area of the Danube rim fault. The strong disruption of the rock is noticeable, and fold structures can sometimes be recognized. The quarry was cleared in 2008/2009. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: rock type, fold / hollow / saddle type: biotite-plagioclase-gneiss |
Quarry | precious | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
High terrace E of Einhausen | 278R001 |
Atting position |
Dungau | The striking terrace step of the cracked glacial Danube gravel of the high terrace to the young gravel of the lower terrace and the sediments of the valley floodplain form a striking feature of the terrain. The high terrace is covered by loess loam. | 26000 650 × 40 |
Type: Terrace Type: Gravel |
no information | significant | no protected area | ||
Dune S of sand |
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278R004 |
Aiterhofen position |
Dungau | Flat, wooded dune ridge made from fine to medium sand. Only a part of the former dune body is a protected landscape component. The rest of the area is used for agriculture and has changed significantly. The small sand ridges in front of the fenced and protected area are artificial. | 25000 250 × 100 |
Type: Dune Type: Sand |
no information | significant | Landscape component | |
Bogenberg S by Bogen |
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278R005 |
Bow position |
Dungau | The steep slopes on the south and east sides of the Bogenberg, which protrudes prominently over the Danube plain, are Pleistocene (Worm times) Danube impact slopes. The plateau corresponds to the Upper Miocene trunk surface. On the S-side, vintner rock, from which the Bogenberg consists, is exposed in cliffs. This is to diaphtoritische Blastomylonite involved in the fault zone of the Danube border breach occur. The structure shows pronounced breaking and transformation of the rock components. | 600000 1200 × 500 |
Type: slope, rock type, fault type: mylonite, gneiss |
Slope crack / rock wall | precious | Nature reserve, FFH area, nature park | Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 96 |
Teufelsfelsen S from Mitterfels |
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278R006 |
Mitterfels position |
Front Bavarian Forest | Summit cliffs made of pearl gneiss on a small rock spur below the castle. The rocks show wool sack weathering through which the predominant direction of foliation of the gneiss is carved out. | 200 20 × 10 |
Type: Ridge Type: Gneiss |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Grotto SE von Wiesenfelden |
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278R007 |
Wiesenfelden position |
Regensburg Forest | The Wiesenfelden grotto is a small granite rock dome with a sacred image in a brick niche on the top block. The medium-grain granite with large potassium feldspar crystals shows wool sack weathering. Below the rocky dome on the road there is an approx. 40 m long underground cavern (built in 1838), the former ice storage cellar of the local brewery, beautiful outcrops of granite with gangue rocks and many adjoining rocks (bring a torch). | 50 10 × 5 |
Type: wool sack formation, rocky dome, rock type: granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Natural park | |
Summit of the Bernhardsnagel S from Oberbocksberg |
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278R008 |
Rattenberg position |
Front Bavarian Forest | In the summit area of the Bernhardsnagel there are numerous rock cliffs made of anatectic granodiorite, some of which form beautiful flat- and mattress-shaped wool sack bodies. In addition to the cliffs, block fields (overgrown) testify to the Pleistocene erosion and weathering (rock cliffs, block decomposition by frost blasting in the Pleistocene). The summit of the Bernhardsnagel, which used to offer a good view, is now completely covered with trees. | 40000 200 × 200 |
Type: rock wall / slope, rock type, block flow type: anatexite, granodiorite |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Teufelsmühle SE from Oberstein |
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278R009 |
Rattenberg position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The Teufelsmühle (also called Teufelsstein) is a wall-like, double-towered summit cliff made of granite with wool sack and mattress weathering. In sections with narrow fissures, the rock is weathered like a honeycomb. At the foot of the south cliff, an anatectic gneiss clod penetrated by a pegmatite dike is preserved in the granite. | 60 15 × 4 |
Type: rock tower / needle, wool sack formation, sea of blocks Type: granite |
Slope crack / rock wall | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Sea of blocks on the Käsplatte SE from Hauswiese |
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278R010 |
Sankt Englmar position |
Front Bavarian Forest | The slope areas in the north-west of the summit are occupied by a large sea of boulders. During the Pleistocene, frost weathering in the periglacial area led to the breaking up of the granite rock of the summit into blocks and the formation of the pronounced block sea. The blocks are made of medium-grain granite with potash feldspar sprinkles. In the E of the Käsplatte (Hanichelriegel), paragranodiorite with weak layers forms a summit cliff (wool sack weathering) and a block flow. | 60000 300 × 200 |
Type: Boulder sea, boulder stream, rock dome, rock type: Granite, anatexite |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Landscape protection area, nature park | |
Gneiss summit cliffs of the Hirschenstein SE from Rettenbach |
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278R011 |
Schwarzach position |
Front Bavarian Forest | Several striking gneiss cliffs protrude from the flat summit plateau. On the southernmost there is an observation tower (good visibility). The cliffs open up a wide range of typical gneiss structures, which can also be seen well on weathered rock sections: layered structures, folds, inclusions of foreign rock with discordant foliation directions, rotated inclusions (cm - 0.5m) and boudins (conspicuous oval cuts). The gneisses (pearl and layer gneisses) partially contain garnet. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: rocky dome, type of rock, metamorphic structure, mineral type: gneiss, calcium silicate rock |
Rock slope / cliff | significant | Landscape protection area, FFH area, nature park | |
Meander loop of the Kleine Laaber NW from Perkam |
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278R012 |
Perkam position |
Dungau | The Kleine Laaber has almost retained its natural course in many places. This pronounced river meander is a characteristic example of the numerous river loops of the Kleine Laaber. At this point in the Laabertal valley, on the left side of the valley, a stepped terrace can be seen between various old ice-age river gravel bodies. Whether a river meanders depends, among other things, on the water flow, the river gradient and the amount of sediment in the water. | 5000 100 × 50 |
Type: Meander, stream / river course Type: silt, sand, gravel |
no information | significant | no protected area |
See also
- List of nature reserves in Lower Bavaria
- List of landscape protection areas in Lower Bavaria
- List of FFH areas in Lower Bavaria
- List of EU bird protection areas in Lower Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, geotope research , accessed on March 11, 2016.
- ↑ which (as of spring 2015) is under construction. Information on opening times and admission prices at www.ziegel-kalkmuseum.de
Web links
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