Park stone (basalt cone)
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| height | 595 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Bavaria , Germany | |
| Mountains | Upper Palatinate Forest | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 43 '55 " N , 12 ° 4' 12" E | |
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| Type | Chimney filling | |
| rock | basalt | |
| Age of the rock | 24-22 million years | |
| particularities | Parkstein Castle | |
The Parkstein , also called Hoher Parkstein and Basaltkegel Hoher Parkstein , is a basalt cone in Parkstein in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria and the southernmost extinct volcano in the Free State.
description
It is located about ten kilometers northwest of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate and is one of the most popular hiking and excursion destinations in the northern Upper Palatinate . Parkstein Castle once stood on its summit . Around the volcanic mountain with a height of 595 m above sea level. NN is the village of the same name Parkstein.
The Parkstein is the weathered extraction vent of a former volcano . At the time of the Tertiary , basalt emerged from the depths as molten rock ( magma ). The basalt columns created during the cooling can be seen in exemplary training. This 38 meter high basalt formation consists of pentagonal and hexagonal columns up to one meter high , with individual shafts reaching 30 meters into the earth.
Alexander von Humboldt saw the “most beautiful basalt cone in Europe” in Parkstein .
natural reserve
An area of around 3 hectares developed in the tertiary era is designated as a nature reserve. The lava slowly cooled in the former chimney. Characteristic basalt columns were formed. The nature reserve is limited to the area of the volcanic vent, on the top of which there are the remains of a former fortress dating back to the 11th century and a chapel from the 19th century.
The nature reserve was redesignated on November 6, 1937, January 5, 1951 and November 24, 1976 with an amended ordinance.
Geotope
The basalt cone has been designated as Geotope 374R004 by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment and was awarded the official seal of approval " Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes " in 2004. In 2006 it was included in the list of 77 awarded national geotopes in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.regierung.oberpfalz.bayern.de, brief info
- ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Parkstein (English)
- ↑ www.regierung.oberpfalz.bayern.de, regulation of the nature reserve (accessed on March 16, 2017)
- ↑ Geotope: Basalt Cone Hoher Parkstein (accessed on October 13, 2013; PDF; 184 kB)
- ↑ High Park Stone
- ↑ Martin Füßl, Berthold Weber: Message from the Earth's mantle - The basalt cone "Hoher Parkstein" in the Upper Palatinate . In: Ernst-Rüdiger Look, Ludger Feldmann (Ed.): Fascination Geology. The important geotopes of Germany , E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-510-65219-3 , p. 150f.
