The Top 20 Natural Monuments in Franconia
Franconia’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments in Franconia. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments in Franconia. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: October 1, 2025
The Schwarzachklamm at the doors of Nuremberg is one of the 100 most beautiful geotopes in Bavaria and has been a protected area since 1936. It is worth a visit in every season!
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The Houbirg is a mountain near Happurg in Middle Franconia with an abandoned Celtic oppidum of the same name. Remains of the walls, some of which are still ten meters …
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The Karlshöhle is one of the two large cave-like washouts that were formed due to the erosive action of the Schwarzach. It is one of the highlights on the way …
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The Oswald Cave is a karst cave on the Hollow Mountain, about 800 meters east of Muggendorf, a district of the Upper Franconian market town Wiesenttal in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria.
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The Gustav Adolf Cave is located below the Gsteinacher Felsenstraße directly on the Schwarzach. This wonderful place in the Schwarzach Gorge (Schwarzachklamm) was already visited by the Swedish King Gustav …
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It is not for nothing that the Schwarzachschlucht has been awarded the seal of quality “Bavaria’s most beautiful geotopes”. Through the gorge, where the small river pushes its way between …
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We are several times a year on the Staffelberg or in the area. It's just beautiful there and it's fun to hike and then have a good meal there.
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I still wonder where you get the better view. From the Asenturm on the Ochsenkopf or here on the Nußhardt summit on the Ochsenkopf. Mighty rock walls and rock towers …
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Beautiful source on the northeastern slope of the Ochsenkopf near Bischofsgrün. Good accessibility, as well as opportunities to relax (benches, etc.). The White Main unites west of Kulmbach with the Red Main and flows at Mainz in the Rhine.
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The Riesenburg cave impresses with its magical vaults and gorges through which the Engelhardsberg hiking trail leads to the Wiesenttal with a height difference of almost 150 m. On the …
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