Lilienfeld marble

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The Lilienfeld marble (also Türnitz marble ) is a hardly metamorphic, partly reddish-red-brown, but mostly deep black limestone extracted between Lilienfeld and Türnitz .

The limestone of the Gutenstein Formation , which occurs between Annaberg and Gaming, was increasingly used in the 18th century, as some of them were of high quality and could also be polished. In particular, the very dark lily fields marble , partly with white calcite veins, which gets its color from inclusions of quartz and illite as well as changing contents of chlorite , paragonite and pyrophyllite , was used intensively in the baroque era . There were quarries in Marktl and northeast of Türnitz.

The pulpit of the pilgrimage church in Mariazell , made 1689–1691 by the sculptor Andreas Grabmayr from Türnitz , is made of red and black Lilienfeld marble, as is the pulpit of St. Florian Monastery , a work by the Viennese court sculptor Johann Joseph Resler in 1755 , as well as the collegiate church in Lilienfeld or the Altars in Göttweig Abbey and in the Peregrini Chapel of the Rossau parish .