You can only smile tiredly about the brave little tailor, because "seven in one empire" is not against what you can do in the northern Upper Palatinate near Waldeck, effortlessly and without tricks, namely a whopping 250 million years of earth's history to bridge just one step.
This geological peculiarity is unique in Bavaria. The roughly five meter long and two meter wide rock outcrop in the embankment of a ravine a few hundred meters north of Waldeck looks quite unspectacular. You can see ancient crystalline rocks from the ancient world, which are stored over sandstones and clays from the Middle Ages, in between there is a gray strip of a "friction zone" a few decimeters wide. But how can that be?
If you look at the history of the earth and all rocks are "normal" and undisturbed one above the other, then the 450 million old crystalline rocks should be at the bottom and the 250 million year old sandstone up to 10 kilometers (!) Above.
The reason for the sensation on the slope of the Kühberg is a very significant fault zone in the earth's crust, several hundred kilometers long and up to 30 kilometers deep, the so-called "Franconian Line". This runs almost straight from the Thuringian Forest in a south-easterly direction to the Bavarian Forest. When the Alps were formed, the low mountain ranges, which were around 300 million years old, were pushed onto the much younger sediments of their western forelands and lifted very strongly. Therefore today there is a striking steep slope down to the foreland on the western edge of the Fichtelgebirge, which can be seen from a distance from Goldkronach to Weiden. But only at the Kühberg near Waldeck is the fault area of the Franconian Line exposed and visible and tangible on the earth's surface.