トルルベンの峡谷・トップ20

Great circular route here at the Hexenklamm in Pirmasens

The bench and the picnic area are located directly on the watercourse. This is a really mystical place to take a break.

Very well signposted and worth seeing

It is a scenic highlight. The rocks are worth seeing in terms of size, variety of shapes and color effect. A number of paths can be strolled between the rocks, around the rocks and through crevices in these rocks, and you always discover new places. On the southern ridge there is another viewpoint with a view far into the Northern Vosges.

Great narrow path, really nice and bouncy pleasant to walk on

One of the most beautiful rock massifs near the French border.

Birds of prey nest on top of the rock.

The Buntsandstein is the lower of the three lithostratigraphic groups of the Germanic Triassic. It lies on top of the Zechstein group and is overlaid by the shell limestone group. The name "Buntsandstein" does not refer to a specific type of rock, i.e. no brightly colored sandstone of any age, but a succession of rocks up to several hundred meters thick from the Lower Triassic, which is made up of sandstone, but also siltstone and mudstone and sometimes also limestone and gypsum rock. In the past, the Buntsandstein (as well as shell limestone and Keuper) was also understood as a unit of time or time interval in the history of the earth and equated with the Lower Triassic (or Middle and Upper Triassic). However, the red sandstone sedimentation does not begin at the same time in the entire distribution area (diachrony). This is one of the reasons why "Buntsandstein" is unsuitable as an interval for the international geological time scale. Today's boundary from the Lower to the Middle Triassic, defined by fossils (i.e. biostratigraphically), does not coincide with the Buntsandstein/Muschelkalk boundary, but lies somewhat lower, still within the youngest section of the Buntsandstein. Thus, "Buntsandstein" is today only to be understood as a designation for a rock sequence (i.e. for a unit of lithostratigraphy) of early Triassic age.