Millstone quarry Scherer

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Watercolor millstone quarry in Perg (1865)

The millstone fraction Scherer is a museum open-air facility at the site of a disused mine site of millstones from sandstone and is located in the borough Perg at the edge of the Mach Lands in district Perg in Upper Austria .

The sandstone that was formed in the Tertiary 30 to 40 million years ago in some places north of today's Machland plain is so hard that millstones could be extracted from it. In addition to the Scherer mill quarry and the core ditch quarry, there were four other smaller sandstone deposits in Perg and its immediate vicinity, in which millstones were extracted.

While millstones were still being mined in Perg until the 1930s, millstone mining in Wallsee, fifteen kilometers south of Perg, ended as early as 1895.

Remains of the former mill stone quarry (accessible during guided tours)

description

Today's open-air facility is the last remnant of the formerly large quarry , which was opened up around the end of the 17th century and operated until 1942 in the part of the Perg market, then known as the Obervormarkt, and was reopened to the public in 1988. In 2009 the area in the ensemble with the Ratgöbluckn stables and the Steinbrecherhaus were placed under monument protection by means of a notice. The millstone quarry is listed as a Perger attraction on the Danube Cycle Path and the Donausteig .

literature

  • Florian Eibensteiner, Konrad Eibensteiner: The home book of Perg, Upper Austria. Self-published, Linz 1933.
  • Rudolf Zach : Perg today, the economy, Perg in the mirror of history. In: Stadtgemeinde Perg (Ed.): Perg, Festschrift on the occasion of the city survey 1969, Linz 1969
  • Franz Moser: Museum educational documents Stadtmuseum Perg for working with schoolchildren in the museum. Perg self-published by Heimathaus-Stadtmuseum Perg , Perg 1993.
  • Heinz Steinkellner, Erwin Hölzl, Martin Lehner, Erwin Kastner: Our home, the district of Perg. Association for the publication of a district homeland book Perg - communities of the district of Perg (publisher), Linz 1995 and 1996.
  • Franz Moser and 10 other authors: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009. Publisher: Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902598-90-5 .

Web links

Commons : Mühlsteinbruch Scherer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 21, 2016 (PDF).

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 23.8 "  N , 14 ° 37 ′ 45.4"  E