フュンフシュテッテンの湖・トップ20

A beautiful lake for swimming, but beavers are also active on its shores.

It's one of two huts located in the cross-country ski section. The pond is somewhat hidden during the lush vegetation season. Signs with the relevant information can be found near the trees.

A beautiful view of the pond... The roaring water behind the bench drowns out the twittering of the birds. To get there, you have to bridge a canal about a meter wide.

Particularly colorful and beautiful in autumn

A Malm block measuring several thousand cubic meters within the colorful rubble masses in the area surrounding the Nördlinger Ries was used to extract raw materials and was partially mined. A small pond formed in the resulting hollow due to the low water permeability of the surrounding rubble rocks. The outcrop is located about 5.5 km southeast of the crater rim. The Gunzenheimer Gump is a small artificial pond (about 8 m deep), but it could only have been created due to the special geological conditions of its surroundings and human activities. The colorful rubble masses here consisted of large white Jurassic limestone blocks (Malm Delta) and clayey and sandy components from the Triassic and older Jurassic periods (Lias, Dogger). While the clayey-sandy deposits were removed, the more weather-resistant lime remained. The lime was used to build the Kaisheim monastery church. Due to the damming nature of the clays of the colorful rubble masses, water could rise under excess pressure (artesian rising spring) during lime mining and form a pond. The special geological significance of the Gunzenheimer Gump was taken into account in 2004. The Gunzenheimer Gump was included in the official geotope cadastre of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment and was thus awarded the "Geotop" seal of quality. [ Source: https://www.geopark-ries.de/geologische-besonderheit/gunzenheimer_gump-21524/ ]

Unfortunately I was only here at the beginning of October, the landscape around the lake is fantastic.

Coming from Doosweiher, I was missing an arrow today and got lost at the intersection. The path goes across the street and continues there. The arrows were not clear or there were arrows that were not visible due to overgrowth. 🤣

Hüle, Hülbe or Hüllweiher is a mostly artificially created small body of water on the water-poor plateaus of the Swabian Alb and the Franconian Jura. The still waters are located within built-up areas, in fields and in the forest. The cases were fed by rainwater and lay on natural waterlogged areas. The waters were of great importance as watering places for livestock or for producing industrial water. The Hülen lost their importance with the connection of the Alb settlements to the water supply and today represent unique cultural and historical evidence of the Swabian Alb and the Franconian Jura.