Re: Solnhofen redux

[Oliver Wings <oliver.wings@web.de>]

Hi there,

Solnhofen is approx. 80 km south of Nuremberg. Nearest "bigger" town is
Eichstätt (Eichstaett if your computer has no German symbols), about 20
km to the east. There are plenty of quarries between Eichstätt and
Solnhofen, some are reserved just for tourists. For a good start go to
Eichstätt (close to the Autobahn A9 (connecting Munich and Nuremberg)
and visit the Juramuseum in the Willibaldsburg (by far the best of the
local natural history museums with a lot of impressive specimens!). 
Their Web site is: http://www.juramuseum.de
You might inquire there for a good site to dig. 
Have fun and good luck!
Oliver

PS: If you want to look for fossils in the area, go for the Moernsheim
Beds (on top of the "real" plattenkalk) - there are much more fossils in
this formation and you will be surely lucky enough to find something
like a small fish or plant remains. 
In the Solnhofen platy limestone you will probably find just lots of the
small planctonic crinoids >Saccocoma< - and nothing else...

Brent Jones wrote:
> 
> I have a small problem: I will be visiting Germany this summer (no, that's 
> not a problem at all!), and I am trying to convince my family that a quick 
> side trip to Solnhofen would not be too far. However, looking through as many 
> maps as I can find on the Internet and in some tourist guides to Germany, I 
> can narrow down Solnhofen's location to Bavaria, south-southeast of Nurnburg, 
> west-southwest of Regensburg, and north-northwest of Munchen. We will be 
> traveling the "romantic road" from Fussen to Frankfort AR; am I correct? Is 
> Solnhofen only a quick trip? Does anyone know how I can find Solnhofen's 
> location?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Brent : )
> 
> PS Feel free to reply off-list.
> 
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