Britter sandstone
The Britter Sandstone , also called Red Saarsandstein , is quarried in Britten near Merzig in the far north of the Saarland in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park . It was created in the middle red sandstone .
Mineralogy and color
This sandstone is exclusively quartz-bound. Its color is red to deep red. The red color is caused by the iron oxide hematite . It is one of the darkest red sandstone deposits ever. The rock consists of 67 percent quartz , 33 percent rock fragments and 2 percent accessories . The grain size ranges from 0.2 to 1.2 millimeters.
use
Britter sandstone is extremely weatherproof . This sandstone was mainly used for solid buildings, bricks, bridges, window and door frames as well as stairs , facades, crosses, tombs and sculptures, etc. a. for the street of the sculptures near St. Wendel .
Structures that were built from this sandstone are Fellenberg Castle , St. Peter Church in Merzig , the Old Town Hall in St. Wendel , the Church in Merzig-Wellingen and Namborn , Dagstuhl Castle in Wadern and the Schweich motorway junction .
In the 17th / 18th In the 19th century there were numerous quarries around Britten. (2015) is mined in a quarry. Due to its significant sandstone deposits, Britten has stone cutting tools in its coat of arms. These are a silver tooth surface with wooden handle, the two diametrically arranged silver Slotting tool is crossed.
See also
literature
- Wolf-Dieter Grimm: picture atlas of important monument rocks of the Federal Republic of Germany. Published by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Lipp-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-87490-535-7 .
Web links
Individual proof
- ^ Grimm: Monument Atlas of Important Monument Stones. Rock No. 076 (see literature)