Baumberger Sandstone Museum
The Baumberger Sandstone Museum in Havixbeck near Münster is dedicated to the fine-grain Baumberger sandstone (limestone sandstone) quarried in the nearby Baumberge .
history
In the Middle Ages , the sandstone, also known as the "marble of the Münsterland", was used as a building material and for works of art in all of northern Germany, the Netherlands and even in the Baltic states as well as in southern Sweden. The cathedral of Münster was also built from this stone. The Baumberger Sandstone Museum was opened in 1994 as a municipal museum for the Havixbeck community. Since then, the museum has been managed by historian Joachim Eichler. The history of sandstone quarrying, traditional stonemasonry and sculpture in the tree mountains from the Middle Ages to modern times is presented on the basis of exhibits . The permanent exhibition covers an area of almost 500 m²,
There are special exhibitions on the upper floor on 100 m² and in the museum garden. The museum is located in the old Rabert farm, which is under monument protection . A café with a garden terrace is set up on the ground floor.
Havixbeck Sandstone Path
Starting from the museum, a path leads past various objects of the Baumberger sandstone. The natural phenomenon of the Baumberger sandstone is explained using information boards.
The upper rock layers are dry because the rainwater is not stored in them, but rather seeps through crevices up to 80 meters below the surface and only there collects as groundwater. There were few wells so deep that they reached the groundwater. The farmers built cisterns in which they collected the rainwater for their own purposes.
It rains a lot in the tree mountains. This is due to the uphill rain that forms when humid air masses rise up the mountains and can no longer hold the moisture. In different places in the tree mountains, however, it also rains different amounts. That depends on the landscape (especially the height of the terrain and the orientation of the slopes). The humid air masses rain down mainly on the south-westerly wind-facing slopes.
The rainwater that seeps into the Baumberger collects in a bowl-shaped groundwater reservoir. The water reappears in numerous springs when it overflows from the water reservoir. The sources of the Baumberge flow in all directions as Steinfurter Aa, Münstersche Aa, Stever Berkel and Vechte. The tree mountains are therefore also called a "hydrographic node". The abundance of water has found its expression in numerous place names ending in "... beck" - for example in "Billerbeck", "Poppenbeck", "Lasbeck", "Masbeck" and "Havixbeck".
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Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 45.5 ″ N , 7 ° 24 ′ 26 ″ E