Höttinger breccia
Höttinger Breccie as a component of the city tower
The Höttinger breccia (also: Höttinger breccia ) is a gray-brown to reddish-brown, coarse and porous lime breccia , which was broken in many places north of Innsbruck and named after the district of Hötting .
properties
The Höttinger breccia formed around 200,000 years ago when limestone debris solidified again on the slopes north of Innsbruck. The material, which is easy to obtain and easy to work with, gained great importance as a building block for Innsbruck.
literature
- Gerhard Siegl, Michael Unterwurzacher: The Höttinger Breccia - a Tyrolean stone. Origin, dismantling sites, history, use, conservation , publisher innsbruck university press, Innsbruck 2012 ISBN 978-3-902811-83-7