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The stone forest is a southeast of the Fichtelgebirges and a nature park. It is appropriate for the upper-Frankish city market talking joke in the Upper Palatinate, south and north of inheriting village in the district Tirschenreuth.
Geologically it exists, just as the Fichtelgebirge, essentially from granite. In the south and the east the stone forest is surrounded by a basalt crest landscape (Kemnather country), (northern stone forest), their most salient collections Parkstein with pastures, the rough Kulm with Kemnath, the lock mountain with forest-hits a corner, the arm mountain, which is Teichelberg and the quiescent mountain.
The highest collection of the stone forest is the 946 m high plate, on which an observation tower (Upper Palatinate tower) is.
In the stone forest are numerous granitene stone blocks and rock bastions, which exhibit pretty often a fantastic form. These have so strange designations how: Zipfeltannenfelsen or sow bath rock. Some this rock are approved also for climbing.
1970 were created the 246 square kilometers comprehensive nature park stone forest.
In the east of the stone forest comb the castle ruin white stone stands at a value of 863 meters. There is the remnants of a former castle. Their building goes in 13. Century back. Today the ruin is a popular moving goal, since also the way to the Upper Palatinate tower here past leads.
In the stone forest there is some granitene blocks and rock, which are approved for climbing. Some the routes are relatively well secured, other however somewhat less (these can be however often defused with mobile safety devices such as Friends or clamping wedges accordingly). Are particularly recommendable the routes at the bird and to robber rock. The bird rock offers some the lighter ways, whereas the robber rock holds tendentious the more fastidious routes ready.
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