Reinhardtsdorfer sandstone

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Guardian at the Bismarck Bridge in Halensee near Berlin
Fountain at the Nymphenbad in the Dresden Zwinger
Schwerin Castle

Reinhardtsdorf sandstone , also Upper square or main sandstone called, is located near the village Reinhardtsdorf at Pirna in District Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony broken . It is the so-called main sandstone of the Elbe sandstones , which was created in the Middle Turon . There is a quarry in 2008 that extracts this sandstone .

Rock description and occurrence

This sandstone is a white, gray-white to yellow-gray, pebbly bound Elbe sandstone . It is fine to medium grained. Fossil remains are a typical phenomenon in this natural stone. The yellow color is caused by iron compounds of the limonite complex . The steep cliffs of Saxon Switzerland, such as the Königstein , the Bastei , the Lilienstein and the Prebischtor, consist of the main sandstone of the Elbe sandstone deposits . The thickness of this sandstone deposit rarely falls below 80 meters and sometimes reaches 160 meters. The stone was mined in Posta , Königstein (Niederkirchleitener quarries), Wehlen , Kirchleithe , Schandau , Postelwitz , Porsdorf, Schöna (pond quarries) in the Elbe Valley and in the Liebethaler Grund .

In the Postelwitz deposit there was next to the building stones a 4 to 5 meter thick bench, which was suitable for sculpting work because of its fine grain. In the quarries of Kirchleithe, fine-grained gray-white sandstones were broken. Similar sandstone types that are no longer broken today are used for the Niederkirchleithen sandstone in the Italian village in Dresden and the Postelwitz sandstone for castles in Dresden, Dessau, Ludwigslust and Schwerin. In Berlin the main front of the regional and district court, upper floor of the Technical University of Charlottenburg and Möckernbrücke .

use

It is mainly used for facade cladding, solid buildings, profiled cornices as well as window and door reveals, stone carvings.

The partial reconstruction of the new Braunschweig Castle (2005–2007) was rebuilt from this sandstone. The Zwinger in Dresden , Albrechtsberg Castle and numerous buildings in the Saxon region were built with this sandstone. It was also installed at Schwerin Palace , the old Berlin City Palace and other structures in Berlin, such as B. on the ground floor of the TU Berlin in Charlottenburg . The sandstone from Alte Poste is installed in Berlin on the listed Bismarck Bridge (1891) in Halensee .

See also

literature

  • W. Dienemann and O. Burre: The usable rocks of Germany and their deposits with the exception of coal, ores and salts , Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart 1929.
  • Siegfried Grunert: The Elbe sandstone: occurrence, use, properties . In: Geologica Saxonica Journal of Central European Geology 52/53 (2007), pp. 143–204 ( digitized version ; PDF; 609 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dienemann / Burre: The usable rocks of Germany, p. 304 ff.
  2. ↑ Dienemann / Burre: The usable rocks Germany, S. 305th

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 51 ″  N , 14 ° 10 ′ 15.4 ″  E