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Natural Monuments

Upper Palatinate

Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab

Doost Boulder Field on the Girnitz Stream

Natural Monuments

Upper Palatinate

Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab

Doost Boulder Field on the Girnitz Stream

Highlight • Natural Monument

Doost Boulder Field on the Girnitz Stream

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Naturpark Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald

Location: Floß, Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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September 17, 2015

Hiking

The Doost (also: Dost) is a relatively small but very impressive nature reserve near Weiden i. d. Upper Palatinate. His countless roundish granite blocks were probably not transported by a glacial stream here, but emerged on the spot by weathering and grinding. The wooded ravine through which the small stream Girnitz, sometimes invisible because of the piled up blocks, flows through, is in superstition the place of the devil and the underworld.

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September 27, 2023

Hiking

A large number of large, rounded granite boulders lie along the Girnitz stream in the flat valley. It represents an impressive example of the effect of eroding forces on a granite rock body.

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December 1, 2016

Hiking

Huge rocks through which a stream meanders. Great area and the hiking highlight in the area.

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Elevation 460 m

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Location: Floß, Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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