List of geotopes in Regensburg

This list contains the geotopes of the Upper Palatinate city of Regensburg in Bavaria . The list contains the official names and numbers of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) as well as their geographical location. This list may not be complete. Around 3,400 geotopes (as of March 2020) are recorded in the Bavarian geotope register. The LfU does not consider some geotopes suitable for publication on the Internet. For example, some objects are not safely accessible or may only be entered to a limited extent for other reasons.

Surname	image	Geotope ID	Municipality / location	Geological unit of space	description	Area m² / extension m	geology	Digestion type	value	Protection status
Former quarry SW of Kager	more pictures	362A001	Regensburg position	Middle Franconian Alb	Reference profile of the Netzstall subformation of the Torleite formation on the Middle Franconian Alb. Medium to thick banked, yellowish gray to bright white limestones with very well developed, even layer boundaries. The layer surfaces rub off chalky. The micritic limestones break in fragments. The occurrence shows very strong fissures. These layers were also known as Kager layers. These rocks were deposited in the central area of the stratified facies basin of Kager-Eberwies. A large part of the former quarry area is now occupied by the Regensburg animal shelter.	4200 120 × 35	Type: standard / reference profile, rock type: limestone	Quarry	precious	Landscape protection area
Dogger outcrop NW of Tegernheim		362A003	Regensburg position	Regensburg Forest	Dogger iron sandstones are exposed on the western slope of the Tegernheimer Graben near the Keilberg fault. These are slightly flaky and sometimes noticeably red-colored and softened.	100 20 × 5	Type: Rock Type: Sandstone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Nature reserve, FFH area
Friedrich-Zeche opencast mine near Dech Betten	more pictures	362G001	Regensburg position	Southern Franconian Alb	The tertiary brown coal reached a thickness of 24 m here. The mining mainly relates to the clayey main intermediate compound, a mining permit for the Friedrich-Zeche is available until 2029. A nature trail for geology, landscape and raw material extraction with a viewing platform was set up at the edge of the opencast mine.	62500 250 × 250	Type: Open-cast mining, layer sequence Type: Lignite, clay	Clay pit / clay pit / marl pit	significant	Landscape component
Cave at Keilstein NE of Schwabelweis	more pictures	362H001	Regensburg position	Dungau	The half-cave consists of two similar recessed indentations. The angular rock structures show an impressive change between white and completely black surfaces.	15 3 × 5	Type: Karst halfway / natural bridge Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Nature reserve, FFH area
Rocky slopes on the south side of the Keilberg NE of Regensburg	more pictures	362R001	Regensburg position	Dungau	In the area of the Keilberg Fault, which separates the crystalline basement of the Vorderen Bavarian Forest from the overburden in the west, the entire Jura curves upward to the east like a flexure. The individual layers of the shift come to light on the southern slope of the Keilberg. The transition from steep to W dipping into flat white Jurassic limestones is easy to see.	200000 1000 × 200	Type: rock group, layer sequence, flexure, karst horizontal cave Type: limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	especially valuable	Nature reserve
The big rock on the Keilberg NE of Schwabelweis	more pictures	362R002	Regensburg position	Dungau	The Malm Epsilon begins at the top of the rock with thin limestone.	1000 50 × 20	Type: rock castle, type of layers : limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area
Rock group on the SW part of the Keilberg N of Schwabelweis	more pictures	362R003	Regensburg position	Dungau	The rock group opens up the mass limestone of the Malm Epsilon and Zeta. A dense series of pebble sponges can be seen at their feet. On the level between the two rock galleries there are thin limestone from the Malm Epsilon.	1000 50 × 20	Type: rock group, layer sequence type: limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area
Large sinkhole Schauergrube W from Vorderkeilberg	more pictures	362R004	Regensburg position	Middle Franconian Alb	The completely overgrown sinkhole has an irregular, not round outer edge.	800 40 × 20	Type: sinkhole Type: limestone	no information	significant	Natural monument
Rocky slope on the Winzerer Höhen near Niederwinzer	more pictures	362R005	Regensburg position	Middle Franconian Alb	The rocky slope made of massive Malmkalk was built into the base by a garage. The exposure is not publicly available.	30 30 × 1	Type: Rock Wall / Slope Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Natural monument
Rocks on the Max-Schulze-Steig N of Sinzing		362R006	Regensburg position	Southern Franconian Alb	Numerous impressive rock towers over 20 m high characterize the Danube side in the area of the NSG Max-Schulze-Steig. There are also about 30 smaller caves there. The rocks consist of plump rock limestone from the White Jura. The high-altitude trail runs more or less on the surface of the Pre-Cretaceous land. To the east of the way there are some former quarries in the Regensburg green sandstone (Regensburg Formation, Upper Cretaceous) When prominent rocks in this area were to be blasted and dismantled at the beginning of the 20th century, the senior building officer Max Schultze bought the area with his own funds. In 1921 it was placed under nature protection. The entire Danube bank was then - with two exceptions (forest and vineyard) - unforested and grazed with sheep and cows.	40 20 × 2	Type: rock wall / slope, sequence of layers, karst halfway / natural bridge Type: limestone, sandstone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Nature reserve