Geopark Porphyrland

National Geoparks serve the preservation, conservation, presentation and Information of the geological heritageThey convey knowledge about the relationships in the Earth's interior and on the Earth's surface, about geophysics, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, soil science, but also about industrial culture, botany and meteorology.

In Germany, 17 Geoparks have the title "National Geopark" – since 2014 also the Geopark Porphyrland. Steinreich in Saxony.

Whether on foot or by bike - the Porphyrland Geopark can be explored at your own pace. Thematic routes for hikers and cyclists lead to special places of geology, culture and industrial history. The varied landscape of the Porphyrland Geopark invites you to be discovered in all its facets.

If you have the traces of the past read the effects on the present understand and approaches for the Shaping a Sustainable Future want to experience, you are in the geoportals in Porphyrland exactly right. The portals are equally visitor center and starting point for discovery tours into the surrounding area to geotopes or sights.

The visitor centers regularly invite you to guided hikes, adventure walks, geocaching, bike and boat tours, but also too lectures and workshops .

Earth history that you can taste! Try the unusual creations with geological-culinary names such as "Süße Collmspitze", "Wermsdorfer Platte", "Johannis Porphyrtuff" or "Sale eggs in lava flow", which producers, restaurateurs and confectioners have specially created with the Geopark Porphyrland have developed. With the GeoGenuss products What we cannot always see becomes tangible: how the ancient history of the soil beneath our feet, the geological raw materials (such as porphyry, kaolin and lignite) and the long tradition of fruit growing are all linked together.