Cricket Sandstone

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Golden gate at Freiberg Cathedral made of Grillenburg sandstone
Last millstone made of Grillenburg sandstone in front of the former quarry administration on Seerenteichstraße in Grillenburg

The Grillenburg sandstone and the Niederschöna sandstone as well as the Hetzdorfer sandstone belong to the Niederschöna layers of the Elbe sandstone .

There used to be a number of sandstone quarries in the Tharandt Forest , near Grillenburg , Niederschöna and Hetzdorf as well as Pohrsdorf and Kurort Hartha , and its close surroundings, not far from Höckendorf ( Paulsdorfer Heide) and Ruppendorf and Dippoldiswalde ( Dippoldiswalder Heide ). These Cretaceous sandstones were formed in the Cenomanium . The above quarries have been closed for a long time.

Rock description and use

This sandstone is fine and coarse-grained, its color is white to brown; In addition to quartz and mica, there are also numerous plant prints of Credneria triacuminata .

The material for the Golden Gate (1225) of Freiberg Cathedral and the Naumburg donor figures (around 1250) as well as other important buildings came after sedimentological investigations and historical research from the work stone bench in the vicinity of Grillenburg , which until the beginning of the 20th century was still used for the Production of millstones was used. The coats of arms of the Kursächsische distance column in Johanngeorgenstadt and of other distance columns in the Ore Mountains were made from Niederschöna sandstone and the three Freiberg post distance columns from Hetzdorf sandstone .

See also

Web links

literature

  • CJ Free Life: Mineralogical and mining observations on a journey through part of the Meissen and Erzgebirge districts, at the beginning of the 1791st year , miners. Journal, No. 5 (1792).
  • W. Dienemann and O. Burre: The usable rocks in Germany and their deposits with the exception of coal, ores and salts. Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart 1929, p. 302.
  • W. Häntzschel: The Cenomaniac and the Plenus Zone of the Sudetic Chalk , Abh. Preuss. GLANF, No. 150 (1933).
  • Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Ed.): Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen , transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00264-3
  • D. Beeger and W. Quellmalz: Geologischer Führer , Vol. 87, Dresden and surroundings , Verlag Gebr. Borntraeger, Berlin-Stuttgart 1994, p. 205, ISBN 3-443-15062-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Grunert: The sandstone of Saxon Switzerland . Leipzig 1986, p. 111 ISBN 3-342-00092-9