Brungerst

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Quarry on the Brungerst

The Brungerst is at 353  m above sea level. NHN the highest point in the Lindlar municipality . It is located north of the town center above the former Lindlar train station . In its southern part, three quarries are still in operation in the vicinity of the Eremitage district . At the highest point of the hill there is a 61 meter high television tower .

The quarries

The rock layers of the Brungerst are almost horizontal and are therefore ideally suited for the surface mining of the Lindlar sandstone, which is technically called Grauwacke . The quarry was first mentioned in 1633 when stones were broken there for the reconstruction of the Lindlar church. The rich greywacke deposit has been mined for over a thousand years. The greywacke was a sought-after building material that was sold in the wide area.

Archaeological finds from the years 2008/2009 have been comprehensively evaluated and prove that what is proven to be the oldest forest in the world was in Lindlar. Archaeologists discovered remains of leaves and branches in 2008. In the Middle Devon, about 390 million years ago, before the dinosaurs, the two to three meter high trees - calamophyton - grew on a sand island in the shallow sea. It is believed that the trees were washed into the sea by a prehistoric tsunami, were covered with mud and are still petrified today. The Lindlarer Grauwacke, a 350 million year old sedimentary rock, owes its origin to these sludge deposits. The finds come from the quarries of Brungerst not far from the Hermitage .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on the Brungerst quarry in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ GPS Wanderatlas Lindlar accessed on November 12, 2016
  3. ↑ The oldest forest is said to have been in Lindlar Focus.de from August 20, 2015. Accessed on October 21, 2015.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '36.2 "  N , 7 ° 22' 4.6"  E