"Der Große Pfahl" – Bavarian’s Geotope #1
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by Max from ViT4
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9/9/2008
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"Der Große Pfahl" – Bavarian’s Geotope
#1
On a trip around the integral nature reserve "Großer Pfahl" you
will learn interesting
and worth knowing things about flora and fauna, quartz stone pits
and fairy stories about the
"Pfahl" in the Bavarian Forest.
Key Features:
Up to 30 m high and often hundreds of meters long rocks which
contains quartz and slate.
Lenght:
More than 140 kilometer.
Broad:
From 10 metre up to 4 kilometer.
Quartz Vein: 2 centimeter up 100 meter
Slate Vein: up to 2 kilometer
Age:
Slate: circa 340 million years
Quartz: circa 240 million years
Developing:
From Schwarzenfeld in the Oberpfalz up to Linz in Austria.
Special Places:
Moosbach (
GCX12Q )
Viechtach (
GC18VRX )
Regen (
GCA2D9 ) )
Highest Part:
758 meter above Mean Sea Level at castle ruin Weißenstein
Name:
The word "Pfahl" is derived from the latin word "pallidus" which
means swallow and complexionless
In german:
"pallidus" = fahl, bleich (Pfahl ~ fahl)
Quartz Stone Pit:
The pit was founded in 1892.
Quartz was used for streets and later for the glass industry.
Since 1939 is it a nature protection area.
Then it was only allowed to mine quartz in special locations, like
Viechtach.
This quartz was used for terrazzo paving stones.
The quartz from Viechtach was famous for its acid- and
abrasion-resistance.
The last application was for microchip-silicium and for
photovoltaic.
After 101 years the pit was discontinued in 1992.
"Der große Pfahl" - Bavarian's first Geotope since 2002
One of the most important beauties of nature in the Bavarian Forest
is the white legendary Quartz rocks of the "Pfahl".
"Der große Pfahl"crosses as a very old break line by a length of
nearly 150 km the Bavarian Forest's basement. There is, due to its
geology meaning and nonrecurring, a world wide interest.
In today's scenery is this "Artwork of the Nature" in manifolds
forms: impressive and spectacularly is its towering white quartz,
or the deep magnificent Pfahl-slate towers.
It was a grandiose Place for castles and burgs. A special rich
flora and fauna is located near the Pfahl-region.
The Pfahl are over ten proactive areas which were submitted to the
Europe Union as a nature protective area.
On a trip around the integral nature reserve "Großer Pfahl" you
will learn interesting worth knowing about the flora and fauna,
quartz stone pits and fairy stories about the "Pfahl" in the
Bavarian Forest.
For more information, visit the permanent free
exhibition "Der Pfahl im Bayerischen Wald" in the tourist
information in the old town hall, "Stadtplatz 1, 94234
Viechtach".
What to do?
Start your trip on the information station:
N 49° 04.834 E 012° 51.945
and follow Path #4 "Große Runde".
Station 1:
N 49° 04.927 E 012° 51.773
Station 2:
N 49° 04.969 E 012° 51.773
Station 3:
N 49° 04.999 E 012°
51.704
Describe the look and feel of the outcrop.
Station 4:
N 49° 05.064 E 012° 51.608
Send me an e-mail with the name of this Station.
Station 5:
N 49° 05.088 E 012° 51.527
Station 6:
N 49° 05.231 E 012° 51.200
Station 7:
N 49° 05.292 E 012° 51.072
Take a Photo with you and your GPS.
Station 8:
N 49° 05.077 E 012° 51.437
Station 9:
N 49° 04.880 E 012° 51.820
Your Jobs:
Deine Aufgaben:
- Describe the look and feel of the outcrop at stage 3.
- Beschreibe das Aussehen des Abraums an
Station 3.
- Whats the name of Stage 4?
- Wie lautet der Name von Stage 4?
Please send me the name of station #4 by using my
geocaching.com-profile.
Sende mir als Log-Bedingung die Antworten
dieser beiden Fragen.
- Publish, along with your log entry, the photo from Stage #7 that
shows you and your GPS
in front of the rocks and also one from your favourite place on
the Pfahl.
- Veröffentliche mit deinem Log ein Foto,
von Stage 7, dass dich mit deinem GPS zeigt
und eines von deinem Lieblingsplatz am Pfahl.
When you click on this pictures, you will get to
this picture on
http://imageshack.us/
There, you can upload and host your pictures for free.
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 November 15 by wudyablo2 (483 found)
#482:Heute bei schönem Wetter eine Runde um den Pfahl spaziert. Ich wollte mir das schön lange mal ansehen und heute hats geklappt.
Danke für den schönen Sonntagsspaziergang.
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| October 16 by chilifarmer (172 found)
Der Ausflug zum Großen Pfahl war einer der schönsten unseres Urlaubs im Bayrischen Wald. Dabei erlebten wir schonmal einen Vorgeschmack auf den kommenden Winter ;-) Im Regen fuhren wir los, im Schneeregen begannen wir den Rundweg um dieses eindrucksvolle Naturdenkmal. Auf der Rückfahrt ging dann über den Sankt Egidi gar nichts mehr, weil es so sehr geschneit hatte. Aber zurück zum Pfahl. Es war ein wirklich sehr interessanter Spaziergang rund um den Pfahl. Wir kamen gar nicht so recht voran, weil ich immerzu Fotos schießen musste ;-) Im Log vorher hatte ich ja schon etwas von einem Drachen gelesen, dem wir auch gleich zu Anfang begegneten. Eindrucksvoll fand ich auch die senkrechten Spalten mitten im Fels im oberen Teil des Pfahls. Auf dem Rückweg erinnerte nur die neben dem Pfahl verlaufende Straße an die "Zivilisation". Anschließend sind wir - auf der Suche nach einer heißen Tasse Schokolade zum Aufwärmen - zufällig auf die Ausstellung gestoßen und haben uns die auch noch angeschaut.
Vielen Dank für's Herführen und Zeigen!Viele Grüße, chilifarmer&Irmi P.S. Danke für die Logfreigabe, auch wenn ich mich mit einer Aufgabe etwas schwer getan habe ;-)
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| October 6 by Nivali (357 found)
Mit Nepi während Bayernurlaub gefunden.
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| October 6 by Speedyjeje (322 found)
Mit Nepi gesucht und gefunden.
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| October 6 by Feuerkelch (357 found)
Zusammen mit Nepi unterwegs, und den Spaziergang sehr genossen
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Current time: 11/21/2009 3:05:41 PM
Last Updated: 11/18/2009 10:29:21 AM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
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