Parkstein (hill)

The park brick, also known as High Park High Park cones and basalt stone, a basalt cone in Stone Park in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria.

Description

It is located about ten kilometers northwest of Weiden in der Oberpfalz, and is one of the most popular hiking and excursions in the northern Upper Palatinate. At its peak the castle once stood Park stone. Around the volcanically formed mountain with an altitude of 595 m above sea level. NN is the eponymous village park stone.

The park is the stone herausgewitterte conveyor chimney of a former volcano. At the time of the Tertiary basalt is forced upon as molten rock ( magma ) from deep. In exemplary education today can be seen, the resulting in cooling basalt columns. This 38 meter high basalt formation consists of five - and six-sided, up to one meter high columns, of which some, individual shafts up to 30 meters deep into the earth.

Alexander von Humboldt saw in the park stone the "most beautiful basalt cone of Europe".

Geotop

The basalt cone is shown by the Bavarian State Office for Environment as Geotop 374R004 and was honored in 2004 with the official seal of approval "most beautiful Bavaria geotopes ". In 2006 it is recorded in the list of 77 excellent national geological sites in Germany.