Häuslinger marble
The Häusl Inger marble (even Melker marble ) is a Dunkelsteinerwald in Lower Austria occurring and Häusling and cooking wood cracked marble , geologically with the Wachau marble is comparable.
Occurrence
The coarse-grained marble was quarried in several small quarries around the 466 high Kalkberg. The marble found east of Melk extends in the form of a very small, elongated lens that is up to 200 m long and 10 to 30 m thick.
use
The stone was already used by the Romans because it could be easily transported on the Danube , which explains its use for statues and grave slabs as far as the Tulln area. The stone was also used later as building stone, for example for the buttresses of the Mauer parish church and the altar stone of the parish church in Karlstetten, as well as for the local need for gravestones and decorative stones. In the second half of the 19th century the marble was used for construction as far as Vienna.
The marble deposit was probably used primarily for the production of quicklime in construction. The quality of this marble varies greatly. There are relatively pure gray to streaky, banded and dark gray bench layers with the secondary components muscovite , hornblende and pyrite . The pyrite content in the pure, light gray Häuslinger marble has an extremely negative effect on its weathering behavior, as it decomposes to corrosive sulfuric acid and damages the marble.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stones for the Iuvavum area on chc.sbg.ac.at ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 12, 2010
