Cornberger sandstone
The Cornberger sandstone was mined near Cornberg near Sontra , Hersfeld-Rotenburg district , in Hesse . It is a sandstone from the time of the Zechstein . The quarry has not been in operation since 1995.
Properties and use
Cornberger sandstone is fine to coarse sand and partly pebbly bound. Its bond is clayey - ferritic and weakly carbonate . The color changes from milky-white to yellowish-brown to gray. The main mineral components are quartz with 60 percent, rock fragments with 25 percent and feldspar with 15 percent. It is moderately weather resistant.
This sandstone is one of the few sandstones that can be polished. It is suitable as a solid stone for masonry , floor slabs, cornices , tombs and as a grindstone . It was used as a tombstone on many buildings in Cornberg and on the cemetery chapel and in the Schenklengsfeld cemetery . The Cornberg monastery was built with Cornberg sandstone in the years 1292–1296.
The Cornberg sandstone deposit is up to 20 meters thick. It was mined for almost 700 years. The dismantling was not finished until 1995. The quarry walls show an insight into the deposit structure at the time of its formation in the Permian . In the quarry, there are imprints of dinosaur tracks on a large area, such as the Cornberg track plate .
See also
Web links
- Cornberger quartzite sand quarry cornberg.de
- Cornberg Monastery Sandstone Museum
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 .
Individual proof
- ^ Grimm: Monument Atlas of Important Monument Stones. Rock no.65 (see literature)
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 31.1 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 53.2 ″ E