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Georoute Kleiner Berg Hohburg

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  • Start: Geoportal Museum Steinarbeiterhaus Hohburg, Kirchgasse 5, 04808 Lossatal, OT Hohburg
  • Destination: Geoportal Museum Steinarbeiterhaus Hohburg, Kirchgasse 5, 04808 Lossatal, OT Hohburg
  • Medium
  • 4,77 km
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
  • 80 m
  • 191 m
  • 123 m

Following the traces of the last ice ages with wind and glacier scratches

The circular route begins at the Geoportal Hohburg at the Museum Steinarbeiterhaus. It tells the story of stone mining around the town of Hohburg. 

From the Geoportal, the route leads along the north side of Kleiner Berg to the two kaolin lakes of Hohburg. Kaolin was mined here until 1965. From here, it goes upwards to the summit of Kleiner Berg. The rocks made of Hohburg quartz porphyry on Kleiner Berg are classified as a National Geotope and are of high geological and scientific historical significance. The glacier scratches at the "Morlot Scratchings," barely visible today, were caused by ice sheets up to 500 meters thick as they moved over the rocks. The wind scratches on the “Naumann-Heim-Felsen” bear impact marks and grooves created by dust-laden steady winds transported across the glacier foreland during the Weichselian glaciation. The wind and glacier scratches on Kleiner Berg in Hohburg already served as proof of the theory of European continental glaciation in 1844.

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  • Unknown (4%)
  • Street (2%)
  • Tarmac (25%)
  • Gravel (4%)
  • Hiking trail (9%)
  • Path (57%)

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