List of natural monuments in Groß-Umstadt

The list of natural monuments in Gross-Umstadt called in Gross-Umstadt in Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse located natural monuments . They are protected in accordance with Section 28 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatschG).

image	designation	District, location	description	Art	No.
	Hainrichsberg group of trees	Groß-Umstadt 49 ° 51 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 43.4 ″  E	Former natural monument, deleted on November 27, 1996. Small forest of acacias , chestnuts , junipers and linden trees surrounded by the wine region Einzellage Am Herrnberg and the educational wine trail . Now part of the Herrnberg von Groß-Umstadt nature reserve .	-
more pictures	Gamb oak	Semd 49 ° 53 '31.2 "  N , 8 ° 54' 7.2"  E	Main trunk of the oak a few days after lightning, fire and felling Single tree. Natural monument since 1932. On 6 June 2019 caught fire by lightning strike, had to be felled (see article Gambseiche ). Remains a natural monument even as dead wood.	English oak
more pictures	Sausteigeiche	Groß-Umstadt 49 ° 51 ′ 14.4 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 34.8 ″  E	Spring fountain on the ND Single tree. Meeting point for the Umstadt swineherd from the Middle Ages to the beginning of modern times. Estimated age: about 300 years; Largest trunk circumference: 467 cm, height: 29 m. Stands next to the former spring well set in stone.	English oak
more pictures	Steinbornshohl	Groß-Umstadt 49 ° 52 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 27.6 ″  E	Loess demolition edges of the hollow Hollow road, hedges to the side. In dialect: Schdambertshoul , a loess hollow (loess erosion valley): In Roman times until the Middle Ages, part of the connection to Hohen Straße (Frankfurter Straße), a connection on the Odenwald ridge to the south. During the Second World War, tunnels were dug in the loess areas to protect them from air raids. Today only half as big, the rest filled, natural monument (nature conservation monument).	-
more pictures	Gypsy oaks	Richen 49 ° 54 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 4.8 ″  E	Single tree. Striking older specimen on the southwestern corner of the forest directly on the L3095 state road between Richen and Altheim with a well-defined treetop . The tree stands in the south-west corner of the central area of ​​the five-part, approx. 566 hectare landscape protection area of ​​the LSG district of Dieburg .	English oak

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supporting documents

1. ^ "Environmental protection" map. Citizen GIS of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Darmstadt-Dieburg district, accessed on June 7, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Horst Bathon, Georg Wittenberger: The natural monuments of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district with biotope tours , 2nd expanded and completely revised edition. In: Schriftenreihe Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, (Ed.) District Committee of the District of Darmstadt-Dieburg - Lower Nature Conservation Authority, Darmstadt, 2016. ISBN 978-3-00-050136-4 . 243 pages.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ordinance on the Protection of Natural Monuments in the Dieburg District. (pdf; 26 kB) The district committee of the Dieburg district, May 27, 1959, accessed on July 21, 2016 .  
4. ↑ Darmstadt-Dieburg district, Lower Nature Conservation Authority, information from May 13, 2020.

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