Kottenheimer Winfeld

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The Kottenheimer Winfeld is a quarry area between the places Kottenheim , Obermendig and Ettringen in the district of Mayen Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Kottenheimer Winfeld is now part of the volcano park and is also part of the Laacher See national geopark .

Emergence

The Bellerberg volcanic complex erupted around 200,000 years ago . Today, Kottenheimer Büden and Ettringer Bellerberg surround the actual crater area in a crescent shape. The eruption of the Bellerberg volcano took place in several eruption centers, which were active simultaneously and one after the other. In the course of the eruption, three lava flows flowed out of the crater area. The current north of the crater filled an old valley and reached a thickness of about 40 meters. It forms the quarry area of ​​the Winfeld.

use

Quarrying

Kottenheimer Winfeld in the snow
Rock formation in the winfield
Old crane in the winfield

Basalt extraction goes back to the Neolithic in the Winfeld. The oldest quarry discovered is between 5,500 and 6,000 years old. Fire was added to the hard rock for hours and then cold water was poured over it. The rock tore as a result of the sudden quenching. The shallow bowls that flaked off the rock were used to make rubstones. The stone-working tool itself was still made of stone at that time.

Quarries from the Celtic period, around 450 BC BC, were also discovered. The Celts used iron tools with which more demanding work, such as striking triangular rubbing stones (so-called "Napoleon hats") could be carried out. The modern mining in the 20th century exposed high walls made of basaltic stone and destroyed the previous quarries. At the end of the 1960s, commercial mining was gradually stopped.

Climbing area

The dismantling walls serve as a climbing area for the German Alpine Club . The Kottenheimer Winfeld offers 454 designated climbing routes of the difficulty scale III to IX with the route character crack, intersection, wall and friction. There are other climbing areas in the area in the Ettringer Lay and Mayener Grubenfeld .

tourism

The Kottenheimer Winfeld is now a disused, wooded quarry area and a landscape monument in the volcano park . Cranes, crane bases and retaining walls still stand on the mighty lava walls today. Information boards inform the visitor about the creation and dismantling of the winfield. In addition, the Winfeld is integrated into the “Vulkanpfad” circular hiking trail of the dream paths .

literature

  • Angelika Hunold: The legacy of the volcano. A journey into the history of the earth and technology between the Eifel and the Rhine. Schnell + Steiner and publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Regensburg / Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2439-8

Web links

Stations of the volcano park
Route blue (Plaidt-Kretz)

Information center Rauschermühle  | Rauscherpark  | Krufter Bachtal  | Meurin Roman Mine  | Karmelenberg  | Roman tomb Ochtendung  | German pumice museum

Yellow route (Kruft-Andernach)

Geyser Andernach  | Andernach City Museum  | Eppelsberg  | Nastberg  | Tall beech  | Roman tomb Nickenich  | Pellenz Museum  | Mauerley

Route rot (Mendig)

Wingertsbergwand  | Lava cellar  | Lava Dome  | Museum lay

Green route (Mayen)

The Ahl  | Mayener pit field  | Eifel Museum with German Slate  Mine | Kottenheimer Winfeld  | Ettringer Lay  | Ettringer Bellerberg / Kottenheimer Büden  | Katzenberg  | Booser Doppelmaar  | Terra Vulcania

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 24.4 "  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 20"  E