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Danube Gorge (Weltenburg)
The Danube Gorge near Weltenburg (german: Donaudurchbruch bei Weltenburg) is a narrow section of the Danube Valley in the Lower Bavarian county of Kelheim, which has been recognised as a nature reserve and geotope. This section of the valley in the southern Franconian Jura is officially called the Weltenburg Narrows (''Weltenburger Enge''). Location The Weltenburg Narrows lies on the Lower Bavarian section of the River Danube between the town of Kelheim and Weltenburg Abbey. The nature reserve covers an area of about 560 hectares, is 5.5 kilometres long and about 400 metres wide. Description The Gebiet is a designated nature reserve and bears the catastre number NSG200.002. The area was designated as a natural monument under King Ludwig I of Bavaria as early as 1840. The nature reserve, which has existed since 1938, was awarded the European Diploma on 5 March 1978. It is part of the Natura 2000 network and the protected area of ''DE7136301, Weltenburg Narrows and Hirsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelheim
Kelheim () is a town and municipality in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the district Kelheim and is situated at the confluence of the rivers Altmühl and Danube. Kelheim has a population of around 16,750 (2020). History Kelheim is the site of a large Iron Age oppidum from the La Tène period, which has been tentatively identified with the Celtic city of Alcimoennis mentioned by Ptolemy in his '' Geography''. The ramparts of the fort cross the promontory between the rivers Altmühl and Danube. There is an inner defensive line enclosing 60 ha near the confluence, then a long outer rampart enclosing an enormous area of 630 ha. A small promontory fort on the other bank of the Danube has a series of short linear ramparts protecting a settlement in the bend of a meander. This is aligned with the end of the outer rampart on the far bank, dominating traffic on the river. Kelheim has given its name to the '' pfostenschlitzmauer'' style of rampart construction charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the ''fossil record''. Paleontology is the study of fossils: their age, method of formation, and evolutionary significance. Specimens are usually considered to be fossils if they are over 10,000 years old. The oldest fossils are around 3.48 billion years old to 4.1 billion years old. Early edition, published online before print. The observation in the 19th century that certain fossils were associated with certain rock strata led to the recognition of a geological timescale and the relative ages of different fossils. The development of radiometric dating techniques in the early 20th century allowed scientists to quantitatively measure t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riedenburg
Riedenburg () is a town in the district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl, northwest of Kelheim and northeast of Ingolstadt. Prunn Castle ( de) is located in Riedenburg. The town is on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal ( German: ''Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal''; also called Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal or Europa Canal), is a canal in Bavaria, Germany. Connecting the Main and the Danube ri .... On the evening of 5 June 2019, a Viking ship, initially said to be the ''Viking Var'', damaged the lock of Riedenburg, on the canal. After the impact, the lock could not be properly closed. No one was injured in the accident. The repair was expected to take two to three weeks to complete. Later reports indicated the vessel involved in that incident was actually the ''Viking Tir''. The site Vessel Tracker stated that this ship returned to Regensburg a few hours later and remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beilngries
Beilngries (; bar, Beilngrias) is a town in the district of Eichstätt, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, 30 km north of Ingolstadt. Sons and daughters of the city * Rosa Aschenbrenner (1885-1967), socialist politician, member of the Bavarian Landtag 1921-1932 and 1946-1948 * Karl Harrer (1890-1926), sport journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ... and founding member and party chairman of the German Workers' Party, the predecessor organization of the Nationalsozialistische Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) References Eichstätt (district) {{Eichstätt-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eichstätt
Eichstätt () is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district of Eichstätt. It is located on the Altmühl river and has a population of around 13,000. Eichstätt is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Eichstätt. Geography Location Eichstätt lies on both sides of the river Altmühl in the district of Eichstätt of the Oberbayern region of Bavaria, in the heart of Altmühl Valley Nature Park. Geology Eichstätt is located in a valley of the Franconian Jura and is famous for the quarries of Solnhofen Plattenkalk (Jurassic limestone). On the Blumenberg the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx was found by Jakob Niemeyer. History St. Willibald founded the Diocese of Eichstätt on the site of an old Roman station ( or ) in 741. The city was given walls and chartered in 908. It was ruled by a prince-bishop, and in the Holy Roman Empire was the seat of the Bishopric of Eichstätt until secularization in 1802. In 1806, it became a par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dollnstein
Dollnstein is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany. The name Dollnstein has its origins in Middle High German ''"Tollunstein"''. History Dollnstein was first mentioned in 1007 as a tiny village named Tollenstein. The castle of Dollnstein was built probably in the mid of the 12th century from the counts ''von Hirschberg''. Since the 13th century the village was a market for the exchange of goods. From 1440 onwards the village was related to Eichstätt and an administration and judicial authority was located in Dollnstein. Dollnstein - Burgzugang.jpg, Entrance of the historic ''Unterburg'' 2017 Dollnstein Markttor.jpg, Market view from south (2017) Blick in die Kirche von Dollnstein im Landkreis Eichstätt.jpg, View into the church Kirche von Dollnstein im Landkreis Eichstätt, Fresko im Chorraum.jpg, Fresco at the choir room Pictures gallery as shown at de.wikipedia 2019/02/10 Personalities Honorary citizen * Ludwig Körner (1915-2012), Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellheim
Wellheim is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany. It lies in the so-called "Urdonautal", the valley the Danube used some 300,000 years ago on its way to the Black Sea. Today a little river, the Schutter flows through the village in the opposite direction (north-south vs. south-north). The community consists of 5 villages (Aicha, Hard, Gammersfeld, Biesenhard, Konstein and Wellheim) and has about 2800 inhabitants. Today there is no industry at all but a wonderful landscape with a pure nature. See also * Wellheim Castle Wellheim Castle (german: Burg Wellheim) is a former fortification in Upper Bavaria (county of Eichstätt). The ruins of the old rock castle stand dominantly on Jurassic rocks above the market town of Wellheim in the ancient Danube valley (the We ... References Eichstätt (district) {{Eichstättdistrict-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altmühltal
Altmühltal (lit.: "Altmühl valley") is a ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (federation of municipalities) in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria in Germany. It consists of the following municipalities: Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Altmühltal * Alesheim * Dittenheim
Dittenheim is a municipality in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria
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Erosion (Geologie)
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is distinct from weathering which involves no movement. Removal of rock or soil as clastic sediment is referred to as ''physical'' or ''mechanical'' erosion; this contrasts with ''chemical'' erosion, where soil or rock material is removed from an area by dissolution. Eroded sediment or solutes may be transported just a few millimetres, or for thousands of kilometres. Agents of erosion include rainfall; bedrock wear in rivers; coastal erosion by the sea and waves; glacial plucking, abrasion, and scour; areal flooding; wind abrasion; groundwater processes; and mass movement processes in steep landscapes like landslides and debris flows. The rates at which such processes act control how fast a surface is eroded. Typically, physical erosion proce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ries Event
Ries is the German word for a unit of paper ream, derived from the Arabic word ''rizma''. The term can refer to: Geography * Nördlinger Ries, a large circular depression in western Bavaria, Germany. * Ries (Graz), a district of the city of Graz, Austria, named after a hill range in it. People * Adam Ries (1492–1559), German mathematician * Al Ries, American marketing professional and author * Charles P. Ries (diplomat) (born 1951), American businessman and diplomat * Charles P. Ries (poet) (born 1952), American poet and writer * Christopher Ries (1952–), American glass sculptor * Eric Ries, American entrepreneur and author * Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838), German composer * Franz Ries (1846–1932), German violinist and composer * Franz Anton Ries (1755–1846), German Musician, Hubert and Ferdinand's Father * Frédérique Ries (1959–), Belgian politician * Heinrich Ries (1871–1951), American economic geologist * Henry Ries (1917–2004), American photographer * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
