Logo facebook Logo Twitter Logo YouTube Logo RSS Logo YouTube Logo Instagram Logo Stage

Don't hesitate to contact us:

Office of Environmental Protection, Trade Supervision and Energy
(Amt für Umweltschutz, Gewerbeaufsicht und Energie)
Prinz Carl, Kornmarkt 1
69117 Heidelberg
Phone +49 6221 58-18000/18010

Calendar of Events
You want to know which events are taking place in Heidelberg?

Visit Heidelberg's Calender of Events

Don't hesitate to contact us:

Heidelberg Marketing GmbH
Neuenheimer Landstraße 5
69120 Heidelberg
Phone +49 6221 58-40200

Homepage

Geotope of the Year 2011

‘Loess on the Haarlass’

Every year, the Geo Nature Park names a ‘Geotope of the Year’. ‘Geotopes’ are geological features that provide insights into events in our planet’s distant past. Inanimate elements of the landscape like soil, rocks, and fissures, can serve as ‘windows into geological history’, giving us information about the development of our earth and the life on it.

In 2011 the honor of being named Geotope of the Year fell to the ‘Loess on the Haarlass’ (Löss am Haarlass) – an accumulation of fine loess deposits carried during the Ice Age (Pleistocene epoch, approx. 2 million to 10,000 years ago) by strong west winds from the Rhine Valley all the way to the slopes of the Odenwald mountains.

Details of guided hikes to the Loess on the Haarlass can be found in the Natürlich Heidelberg events program