Northern stone forest

View from the Wappenstein over Pechbrunn to the Großer Teichelberg

The northern stone forest is the area of the Pechofener forest in the Upper Palatinate district of Tirschenreuth in Bavaria , which is located in the southeastern Fichtelgebirge and has parts of both the stone forest and the realm forest . Since the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge also refers to the rest of the Reichsforst as (Northern) Stone Forest (394-C) in its natural spatial structure, the name Northern Stone Forest is actually a synonym for the Reichsforst in the Fichtelgebirge.

description

Basalt quarry in the area of the Northern Stone Forest

The area is clearly demarcated geologically from the southern part. Naturally, it is part of the Fichtelgebirge. In the northern stone forest as well as in the Kemnath depression there are several basalt cones . They are volcanic ruins where the lava flow rose to the surface of the earth in a chimney and froze there. Over the course of millions of years, the softer ejecta surrounding them has been removed, so that the hard basalt rock has come to the surface in columns.

Until 1995 it was a municipality-free area with an area of 10,889 km².

The continuing effects of volcanism are the numerous mineral springs in the area. They arise in König-Otto-Bad near Wiesau , in Kondrau near Waldsassen , in Pechbrunn (Silvana-Heilquelle), in Hohenberg an der Eger (Carolinenquelle), in Erbendorf and in Bad Neualbenreuth . The last documented active volcanism took place around 200,000 years ago near Bad Neualbenreuth. A section of the European main watershed runs between the Großer Teichelberg and the Roßkopf . Most of the northern stone forest drains over the Elbe into the North Sea . Both the Weiden – Oberkotzau railway line and the A 93 motorway cut through the Pechofener Wald area in a north-south direction.

Basalt elevations

Roßkopf , 725 m
Steinknock , 708 m
Großer Teichelberg , 683 m (quarry)
Geißberg, 672 m
Steinberg , 705 m
Ruhberg , 692 m
Wappenstein , 672 m
Büchlberg , 647 m (secondary summit with ski lift and summer toboggan run)
Hirschentanz , 644 m (quarry)

cards

Fritsch hiking map No. 52 Fichtelgebirge Nature Park, 1: 50,000
Bavarian Land Surveying Office, Munich, topographic map 1: 25,000, Steinwald Nature Park

natural reserve

The southern part of the Großer Teichelberg, the valley of the Seibertsbach and the Steinhügel north of Pechbrunn are designated as FFH protected areas. The potential natural vegetation of the northern stone forest would be a woodruff-fir-beech forest in a complex with forest barley - fir - beech forest .

Web links

Commons : Nördlicher Steinwald - Collection of images, videos and audio files

quer-contribution Report in quer, from June 9, 2016 from 4:00 p.m., about the Teichelberg and the basalt works in Pechbrunn
Seismometer subnet Marktredwitz The earthquake service Bavaria monitors the region with several stations that record the seismic activity.

Individual evidence

↑ Hiking through the northern stone forest: Path over six basalt hills through the northern stone forest
↑ The natural structure of the district of Wunsiedel i. Fichtel Mountains
↑ Geological history of the Upper Palatinate Forest - Geolog. Construction, rocks, sights from the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, 2009, p. 23, Fig. 10
↑ http://www.onetz.de/neualbenreuth/vermischtes/haben-funde-erdoel-in-weiden-ein-vulkan-in-neualbenreuth-explosive-erdgeschichte-d27628.html
↑ Potential natural vegetation in Bavaria, overview map with explanations, ed. v. Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Augsburg 2012.

[1] Hiking through the northern stone forest: Path over six basalt hills through the northern stone forest

[2] The natural structure of the district of Wunsiedel i. Fichtel Mountains

[3] Geological history of the Upper Palatinate Forest - Geolog. Construction, rocks, sights from the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, 2009, p. 23, Fig. 10

[4] ttp://www.onetz.de/neualbenreuth/vermischtes/haben-funde-erdoel-in-weiden-ein-vulkan-in-neualbenreuth-explosive-erdgeschichte-d27628.html

[5] Potential natural vegetation in Bavaria, overview map with explanations, ed. v. Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Augsburg 2012.