Bornhalm quarry natural monument

Natural monument

The natural monument Bornhalmscher Steinbruch is a natural monument (ND) designated in 1982 by the county of Bentheim with an area of approximately 9 hectares . The ND with no. ND NOH 00012 is located on the northern edge of the Gildehaus development in the urban area of Bad Bentheim . The former quarry is also designated as a Geotop Geological Open-Air Museum in a neglected quarry in the Bentheimer Sandstein (No. 3608/01). The site is also known as the Gildehaus Geological Open Air Museum or the Am Romberg Quarry . It is a former sandstone quarry in which sandstones from the Lower Cretaceous ( Valanginium ) were extracted.

In the Sandstone Museum Bad Bentheim you can find out more about the geology and the historical significance of the Bentheim sandstone.

Web links

Commons : Bornhalmscher Steinbruch natural monument - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Roughly measure the area on the map with a polygon, as no exact area size is available on the Internet
↑ NIBIS map server - Layer Geotopes (interactive search). State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology, accessed on June 16, 2017 .
^ Sandstone Museum Bad Bentheim

52.303194 7.100333Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 11.5 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 1.2 ″ E

[1] Roughly measure the area on the map with a polygon, as no exact area size is available on the Internet

[2] NIBIS map server - Layer Geotopes (interactive search). State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology, accessed on June 16, 2017 .

[3] Sandstone Museum Bad Bentheim