Devil's Kitchen (Tirschenreuth)

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Granite blocks are piled up in a wool sack formation.
Granite block in the Great Devil's Kitchen

The Teufelsküche is a stream valley with granite formations. It is located south of Tirschenreuth in the Upper Palatinate Forest , near the village of Pilmersreuth ad Straße, in the middle of an extensive coniferous forest.

There is a large and a small devil's kitchen there. To the left and right of a slowly rippling forest stream , mighty granite blocks rise , created by the weathering of wool sacks .

The Small Devil's Kitchen is designated as a geotope (377R018) by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment . The property is best opened at the entrance. Over a length of about 50 meters, the granite blocks pile up in and around the stream.

The Great Devil's Kitchen is designated as geotope 377R019. Grouped around a stream there are several rock formations made of granite wool sacks with feldspar fragments with an edge length of up to 4 cm.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geotope: Kleine Teufelsküche NE von Lengenfeld (accessed on November 6, 2015)
  2. ↑ Geotope: "Große Teufelsküche" N von Pilmersreuth (accessed on November 6, 2015)

Web links

Commons : Große Teufelsküche (Tirschenreuth)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 29.4 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 12.2"  E