National geotope

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“ National Geotope ” is an award that was presented to 77 important geotopes in Germany as a result of a competition in 2006 .

history

In 2004, the Academy for Geosciences and Geotechnologies in Hanover (formerly: Academy of Geosciences in Hanover) called for a competition to record the most important geotopes in Germany. Another purpose of the competition was to identify possible candidates for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List . Proposed geotopes should be of "exceptional natural characteristics", preservable in the long term and "allocated to public information opportunities". In addition to individual objects, ensembles or suitable landscapes could also be suggested.

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The 180 proposals that were then submitted were assessed by a committee of experts and 77 of them were recommended for award. The award took place on May 12, 2006 in the state parliament of Hanover ; On this occasion, the objects were given the title “National Geotope” and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research awarded the logo planeterde . An accompanying book was also published.

Four selected geotopes ( Messel Pit , Rammelsberg 2010 expanded to include the Samson Pit , Middle Rhine Valley and the Wadden Sea coast ) are already listed in the UNESCO World Heritage. The Messel pit and the Wadden Sea coast are natural heritage sites, while the other two are considered cultural heritage. As further candidates for the World Heritage, the commission made six proposals, namely the Jasmunder chalk coast , the bastion with the Elbe sandstone mountains , the fossil site Holzmaden , the Nördlinger Ries and the Altmühltal with Solnhofen limestone .

List of excellent geotopes

In the following, the awarded geotopes or geotope landscapes are listed sorted by country. The pre-sorted order is the same as in the AGH listing, which is expressly not linked to any ranking.

National geotope	state	Coordinates
Island of Helgoland	Schleswig-Holstein	54 ° 10 ′ 57 ″ N, 7 ° 53 ′ 7 ″ E
Lieth lime mine near Elmshorn	Schleswig-Holstein	53 ° 43 ′ 16 "N, 9 ° 40 ′ 47" E
Morsum cliff on Sylt	Schleswig-Holstein	54 ° 52 ′ 38 "N, 8 ° 27 ′ 38" E
Fossil algae lawn on the Heeseberg near Jerxheim	Lower Saxony	52 ° 5 ′ 1 ″ N, 10 ° 51 ′ 25 ″ E
Zechstein Karst landscape on the southern Harz ( Rhume spring , unicorn cave )	Lower Saxony	51 ° 35 ′ 23 "N, 10 ° 18 ′ 37" E
Wadden Sea coast on the North Sea	Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg	53 ° 54 ′ 29 ″ N, 8 ° 32 ′ 21 ″ E
Dinosaur tracks in Münchehagen at Steinhuder Meer	Lower Saxony	52 ° 26 ′ 33 ″ N, 9 ° 12 ′ 2 ″ E
Huvenhoopsmoor near Gnarrenburg	Lower Saxony	53 ° 22 '23 "N, 9 ° 6' 8" E
Rammelsberg mine in Goslar	Lower Saxony	51 ° 53 ′ 25 ″ N, 10 ° 25 ′ 12 ″ E
Jasmund chalk coast	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	54 ° 33 ′ 16 "N, 13 ° 40 ′ 33" E
Feldberger Lakes	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	53 ° 20 ′ 11 "N, 13 ° 26 ′ 2" E
Neudarß at the northern tip of the Darß	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	54 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N, 12 ° 30 ′ 54 ″ E
Muskauer fold arch	Brandenburg, Saxony	51 ° 32 ′ 57 "N, 14 ° 34 ′ 54" E
Small Markgrafenstein near Fürstenwalde	Brandenburg	52 ° 19 ′ 11 ″ N, 14 ° 2 ′ 7 ″ E
Harznordrand and the Teufelsmauer	Saxony-Anhalt	51 ° 45 ′ 27 "N, 11 ° 4 ′ 59" E
Bodetal in the Harz Mountains	Saxony-Anhalt	51 ° 44 ′ 8 "N, 11 ° 0 ′ 35" E
Block heaps of the Brocken near Schierke	Saxony-Anhalt	Coordinates are missing! Help.
Externsteine in the Teutoburg Forest	North Rhine-Westphalia	51 ° 52 ′ 8 "N, 8 ° 55 ′ 3" E
Brick quarry from Hagen-Vorhalle	North Rhine-Westphalia	51 ° 22 ′ 56 "N, 7 ° 26 ′ 43" E
Siebengebirge near Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia	50 ° 39 '49 "N, 7 ° 14' 44" E
Bruchhauser stones in the Sauerland	North Rhine-Westphalia	51 ° 19 ′ 21 ″ N, 8 ° 32 ′ 39 ″ E
Sea of rocks near Hemer in the Sauerland	North Rhine-Westphalia	51 ° 22 ′ 50 ″ N, 7 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E
Historical coal mining in the Muttental near Witten	North Rhine-Westphalia	Coordinates are missing! Help.
Schlade in the Bergisches Land	North Rhine-Westphalia	51 ° 0 ′ 13 "N, 7 ° 8 ′ 59" E
Hambach lignite mine west of Cologne	North Rhine-Westphalia	50 ° 54 ′ 39 "N, 6 ° 30 ′ 10" E
Eisenerzgrube Wohlverwahrt in the Weser Mountains	North Rhine-Westphalia	52 ° 13 ′ 40 "N, 9 ° 2 ′ 28" E
Porta Westfalica breakthrough in the Weser	North Rhine-Westphalia	52 ° 14 ′ 38 "N, 8 ° 55 ′ 11" E
Pebble slate folds near Beddelhausen in the Wittgensteiner Land	North Rhine-Westphalia	50 ° 59 ′ 54 ″ N, 8 ° 29 ′ 16 ″ E
Messel mine near Darmstadt	Hesse	49 ° 55 ′ 3 ″ N, 8 ° 45 ′ 24 ″ E
Felsenmeer near Lautertal in the Odenwald	Hesse	49 ° 43 ′ 26 "N, 8 ° 41 ′ 28" E
Lahn marble near Villmar	Hesse	50 ° 23 ′ 39 ″ N, 8 ° 11 ′ 3 ″ E
Rhön with Wasserkuppe , Schafstein , Steinwand , Teufelstein , Wachtküppel	Hesse	Coordinates are missing! Help.
Bohlenwand (Thuringia) near Saalfeld	Thuringia	50 ° 37 '54 "N, 11 ° 22' 59" E
Feldstein near Lengfeld in southern Thuringia	Thuringia	50 ° 31 '42 "N, 10 ° 38' 5" E
Crystal salt chimneys from Merkers	Thuringia	Coordinates are missing! Help.
Long wall near Ilfeld in the southern Harz	Thuringia	51 ° 34 ′ 11 "N, 10 ° 47 ′ 12" E
Slate mining near Lehesten	Thuringia	50 ° 27 '40 "N, 11 ° 25' 54" E
Travertine of the Ilm valley near Weimar	Thuringia	Coordinates are missing! Help.
Scheibenberg in the Ore Mountains	Saxony	50 ° 32 '14 "N, 12 ° 55' 26" E
Palm fronds on the Hirtstein in the Ore Mountains	Saxony	50 ° 32 '9 "N, 13 ° 11' 35" E
Basalt chimney from Stolpen in Lusatia	Saxony	51 ° 2 ′ 53 "N, 14 ° 5 ′ 3" E
Elbe Sandstone Mountains	Saxony	50 ° 47 ′ 35 "N, 14 ° 6 ′ 31" E
Round humps in the Hohburg Mountains in the Leipzig district	Saxony	51 ° 24 ′ 22 "N, 12 ° 47 ′ 55" E
Altenberger Pinge in the Ore Mountains	Saxony	50 ° 45 ′ 56 "N, 13 ° 45 ′ 50" E
Rochlitzer Porphyrtuff	Saxony	51 ° 1 ′ 22 "N, 12 ° 45 ′ 48" E
Kirchbruch Beucha	Saxony	51 ° 19 '27 "N, 12 ° 33" 59 "E
Dauner Maare in the Eifel	Rhineland-Palatinate	Coordinates are missing! Help.
Middle Rhine Valley	Rhineland-Palatinate	Coordinates are missing! Help.
Vulkaneifel with Dachsbusch , Eppelsberg , Wingertsbergwand , Meurin Roman mine , Eckfelder Maar	Rhineland-Palatinate	Coordinates are missing! Help.
Devil's table in the Palatinate Forest	Rhineland-Palatinate	49 ° 11 ′ 42 "N, 7 ° 44 ′ 38" E
Druid stone near churches / victory	Rhineland-Palatinate	50 ° 47 ′ 42 "N, 7 ° 54 ′ 37" E
Andernach geyser	Rhineland-Palatinate	50 ° 26 ′ 54 "N, 7 ° 22 ′ 31" E
Saar loop near Mettlach	Saarland	49 ° 30 ′ 4 "N, 6 ° 32 ′ 58" E
Feldberg and Wutach Gorge	Baden-Württemberg	47 ° 52 ′ 25 "N, 8 ° 0 ′ 14" E , 47 ° 50 ′ 41 "N, 8 ° 18 ′ 43" E
Kaiserstuhl	Baden-Württemberg	48 ° 4 ′ 51 ″ N, 7 ° 40 ′ 14 ″ E
Randecker Maar	Baden-Württemberg	48 ° 34 '27 "N, 9 ° 31' 23" E
Posidonia slate from Holzmaden	Baden-Württemberg	48 ° 38 ′ 8 "N, 9 ° 31 ′ 37" E
Upper Danube Valley	Baden-Württemberg	48 ° 2 ′ 56 "N, 8 ° 58 ′ 20" E
Blaubeurer Alb with the blue pot	Baden-Württemberg	48 ° 24 ′ 57 "N, 9 ° 47 ′ 2" E
Volcanic landscape of the Hegau with Höwenegg and Hohentwiel	Baden-Württemberg	47 ° 54 ′ 5 ″ N, 8 ° 44 ′ 30 ″ E
Lone Valley on the Swabian Alb	Baden-Württemberg	48 ° 34 '53 "N, 10 ° 12' 57" E
Isteiner Klotz on the Upper Rhine	Baden-Württemberg	47 ° 39 '47 "N, 7 ° 31' 51" E
Hessigheim rock gardens in the Neckar valley	Baden-Württemberg	49 ° 0 ′ 6 "N, 9 ° 10 ′ 37" E
Mössinger landslide on the Swabian Alb	Baden-Württemberg	48 ° 22 ′ 40 "N, 9 ° 4 ′ 0" E
Bavarian stake	Bavaria	49 ° 5 ′ 2 "N, 12 ° 51 ′ 36" E
Nördlinger Ries	Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg	48 ° 53 ′ 18 ″ N, 10 ° 32 ′ 9 ″ E
Altmühltal and Solnhofen limestone limestone	Bavaria	48 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ N, 11 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E
Glacier cut near Fischbach am Inn	Bavaria	47 ° 42 '37 "N, 12 ° 9' 5" E
Pottenstein in the Franconian Alb	Bavaria	49 ° 46 ′ 19 ″ N, 11 ° 24 ′ 29 ″ E
High park stone in the Upper Palatinate	Bavaria	49 ° 43 ′ 55 "N, 12 ° 4 ′ 12" E
Stone Agnes near Berchtesgaden	Bavaria	47 ° 41 ′ 12 "N, 12 ° 54 ′ 32" E
Osterseen south of Munich	Bavaria	47 ° 47 ′ 25 ″ N, 11 ° 18 ′ 15 ″ E
Luisenburg rock labyrinth near Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains	Bavaria	50 ° 0 ′ 43 "N, 11 ° 59 ′ 32" E
Weltenburger Enge near Kelheim	Bavaria	48 ° 54 ′ 1 ″ N, 11 ° 49 ′ 49 ″ E
Partnachklamm near Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Bavaria	47 ° 28 ′ 9 ″ N, 11 ° 7 ′ 7 ″ E
Silberberg near Bodenmais in the Bavarian Forest	Bavaria	49 ° 3 '26 "N, 13 ° 7' 27" E
Growing rocks from Usterling in Lower Bavaria	Bavaria	48 ° 39 '44 "N, 12 ° 38' 56" E
Werdenfelser Land	Bavaria	47 ° 28 '26 "N, 11 ° 9' 22" E

literature

Academy of Geosciences in Hanover eV; Ernst-Rüdiger Look, Horst Quade (Ed.): Fascination Geology. The most important geotopes in Germany. 2nd revised edition. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-510-65221-1 .

Web links

Commons : National Geotopes in Germany - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Award: Kirchbruch Beucha becomes third national geotope in Geopark Porphyrland. geopark-porphyrland.de, online portal, September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

[1] Award: Kirchbruch Beucha becomes third national geotope in Geopark Porphyrland. geopark-porphyrland.de, online portal, September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .