Max-Schultze-Steig
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Max-Schultze-Steig
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 Rock formation with cave |
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| location | regensburg | |
| surface | 12.45 ha | |
| Identifier | NSG-00018.01 | |
| WDPA ID | 82148 | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 0 ' N , 12 ° 2' E | |
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| Setup date | 1939 | |
The Max-Schultze-Steig is a slope about 2.2 kilometers long and up to 300 meters wide on the right bank of the Danube , on the southwest corner of Regensburg . A twelve-hectare area is under nature protection and belongs partly to the city of Regensburg, partly to the municipality of Pentling , district of Regensburg . Over twenty striking rock towers made of limestone from the Jurassic or Cretaceous period with a height of over 20 meters characterize the appearance of the site.
history
In 1905 limestone deposits began to be extracted; Corresponding blast marks can still be seen today. The architect and active conservationist Max Schultze , Fürstl. Thurn and Taxis ' senior building officer in Regensburg, acquired a total of eleven plots in 1906 to save them from further dismantling. In 1912 he donated the one kilometer long and up to 300 meter wide site to the city of Regensburg with the stipulation that “it should always be left in its natural state”. In 1921 it was placed under nature protection. Within the Max-Schultze-Steig nature reserve, the "Hoppefelsen" area, bought by Schultze, connects to the south. The Hoppe or Schutzfelsen was also bought up in 1906 for nature conservation reasons. The buyer was the Royal Bavarian Botanical Society Regensburger (today: Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaft von 1790 eV).
This society was founded on May 15, 1790 on the Hoppefelsen - the oldest of its kind in the world. Another piece of land, now known as the Waldverein Gorge, was also purchased in 1906 by the Regensburg Forest Association to protect it from being blown up, financially supported by Prince Albert I. von Thurn und Taxis . The nature reserve, an important local recreation area for the city of Regensburg, has been divided into two halves by a motorway bridge ( A3 ) over the Danube since 1965 . From 1907 to around 1970 the Regensburg Forest Association maintained the area, i.e. In other words, he took care of the maintenance of the railings and benches, and marked the hiking trail through the nature reserve. The trail running on the plateau was created in its northern half in 1907 by the Regensburg Forest Association. The southern part of the path existed since 1829 at the latest and led from the protective rock in an easterly direction to today's Eseltal, and from there also eastwards to Regensburg. At Max Schultze's time, with two exceptions (forest and vineyard), the entire Danube bank strip was pasture for sheep and cows. After grazing ended, the nature reserve grew like a jungle with bushes and trees. Sheep farming has been back on a slope since 2003. In 2007 and 2010, the Regensburg City Garden Authority, responsible for the nature reserve is the government of the Upper Palatinate, freed two larger rock objects from vegetation; these now look as splendid as in Max Schultze's time. The area is also part of the fauna-flora-habitat area dry slopes near Regensburg (FFH no. 6938-301; WDPA no. 555521762).
Geological features
There are around thirty smaller caves in the Max-Schultze-Steig nature reserve. Of these, the "Carl-Wilhelm-von-Gümbel-Höhle" and the "Schutzfelsenhöhle" are geologically of particular importance. Both caves were mostly blown up in 1906. In the cave remains of the Schutzfelsenhöhle it can be seen that it is a former sinkhole from the Lower Cretaceous period in the Jurassic limestone, which was filled with sediments (sands of the "protective rock layer") from the Upper Cretaceous period and later partially cleared again. Since 2005, this cave has been number 56 among the hundred most important geotopes in Bavaria. The lower part of the Carl-Wilhelm-von-Gümbel-Höhle consists of limestone of the Jura , the upper part of the cave consists of protective rock layers (different colored sands of the chalk sea and river scree with granite parts of the eastern Bohemian masses ) of the Upper Cretaceous period.
Geotope
The protective rock is designated as a geotope and classified as valuable. Here the type locality of the Schutzfels Formation is open. The clay-sandy deposits of the protective rock formation lie in a karst hollow form formed in massive limestone in the Lower Cretaceous Period. Since these are easily weathered, a semi-cave has formed in this area , which offers protection from bad weather (hence the name Schutzfelsen). The roof of this half-cave is formed by the green sandstone of the Regensburg formation , at the base of which a transgression conglomerate has developed.
Botanical peculiarities
Thanks to the hillside location directly on the Danube , the area has a relatively mild climate. Here rare plants have found a retreat that is only available in the "Alpinen Steig" area near Schönhofen , in the Schwarzen Laaber valley , a few kilometers west of the Max-Schultze-Steig. Some plants from the West Asian steppe area can only be found in these two small areas in Bavaria.
exploration
The botany of the area was researched by David Heinrich Hoppe around 1790 and then extensively recorded several times. In 1853 the first known geological research by Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel took place on the Swallow's Nest Rock and the Schutzfelsenhöhle. From 1998 to 2009 the karst objects (caves and whirlpool holes ) of the Max-Schultze-Steig were researched and documented by cave researchers from Regensburg, Ingolstadt and Nuremberg with the approval of the responsible environmental protection agency.
Protective measures
In order to protect nature, official orders prohibit leaving the paths or cycling on paths in the nature reserve. Plants must not be destroyed or removed. With one exception, climbing is prohibited in the entire nature reserve.
literature
- Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel : Geognostic description of the Kingdom of Bavaria. 4th division. Fischer, Kassel 1891. (Reprint: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich 1998)
- Werner Dechent: The karst objects of the Max-Schultze-Steig. unpublished, Regensburg 2008.
- Lotte Kinskofer: Tavern dying . Prolibris Verlag, 2009. The detective novel begins with Max Schultze Steig as the scene of an attempted murder.
- Association of German Cave and Karst Researchers V .: Southern Franconian Alb (Altmühl- and Danube Valley region), karst and cave 2008–2010. Self-published, ISSN 0342-2062 .
- Josef Eder: Protective rock reminds of David Heinrich Hoppe. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . January 7, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 6938-301 dry slopes near Regensburg. (FFH area) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ Geotop, Schutzfelsen von Pentling (accessed on February 21, 2016)
See also
- Mattinger slopes , another nearby nature reserve in the Regensburg area
source
- Werner Dechent, Max Schultze Biography, unpublished, Regensburg 2007
Web links
- Max-Schultze-Steig. Government of the Upper Palatinate, accessed on March 20, 2008 .
