Lahn Marble Museum

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The museum building since 2016
The museum was housed in this half-timbered house until 2015

The Lahn Marble Museum in the central Hessian community Villmar in Limburg-Weilburg dedicated to the valley of the Lahn occurring Lahnmarmor . The focus of the presentation is on the origin of this natural stone as a marine , biogenic sedimentary rock , the history of marble quarrying in many quarries in the area and its use as stone .

The new building of the museum was officially opened on March 20, 2016. It is located on the right-hand side of the Lahn at Villmar train station , in the immediate vicinity of the Unica quarry , the important geotope that allows a unique insight into a stromatopore reef from the Devonian . In 2012 there was an initiative that sought to raise a public petition against the building of the museum by collecting signatures . Although this was initially able to collect enough signatures, the citizens' petition was rejected by the local parliament for formal reasons.

Initially, from 2005, the Lahn Marble Museum was housed in the center of Villmar, in a half-timbered house on Brunnenplatz, Peter-Paul-Straße 39-41, which had previously housed the municipal building department. Already at this location the museum showed the geology of the Lahn marble, the history and the technology of the extraction of the different types of stone as well as its use, designed with great care, but in very cramped conditions.

The Lahn Marble Museum Foundation is responsible for the museum . Its advisory board is composed equally of representatives from the Villmar community and representatives from the Lahn-Marmor-Museum eV association. The association is responsible for running the museum.

The museum is to be regarded as both a geological museum and a natural history museum and - due to its presentation of important economic and historical aspects of the region - as a local museum .

The geology of the Lahn marble is shown in the museum. H. the formation of the rock as reef limestone in a tropical sea ​​of ​​the Middle Devon around 390 million years ago, mainly through the growth of stromatopores . Another focus is the presentation of the technique of marble quarrying over the centuries. On display are wire saws , drills, chain hoists, rollers and cranes, including a derrick . The marble blocks were first transported by horse-drawn carts and ox carts - with teams of up to 60 oxen - and by ship across the Rhine, and after the opening of the Lahn Valley Railway in 1863 also by rail. Furthermore, the manual and sculptural processing of Lahn marble as a stone is presented. A large collection of showpieces shows the variety of manifestations of Lahn marble.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 45.5 "  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 11.6"  E