Small goat field quarry
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| other names | Diroll quarry | ||
| Mining technology | Open pit mine on 0.035776 km² | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Scheuermann Naturstein GmbH & Co. and Essmeyer Baulogistik GmbH | ||
| Start of operation | Small scale: second half of the 19th century. Industrial: 1912 |
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| Degradation of | Small goat fields dolomite | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 1 '19.2 " N , 11 ° 11' 49.2" E | ||
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| Location | Small goat field | ||
| local community | Weismain | ||
| Administrative district ( NUTS3 ) | Upper Franconia | ||
| country | Free State of Bavaria | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Northern Franconian Alb | ||
The Kleinziegenfelder Quarry is a limestone - quarry in northern Weismainer hamlet Kleinziegenfeld . The quarry was opened in the second half of the 19th century and, with one interruption in the second half of the 20th century, extracts the unique dolomite field for small goats . The quarry is also known as Diroll's quarry after the name of its founder, Jakob Diroll.
history
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The quarry was founded by the Trossenfurt contractor Jakob Diroll in the second half of the 19th century. Twelve years after the death of Jakob Diroll, his sons split up the business, which they initially ran together. Hans Diroll (1871–1849) took over the construction company, including the building materials trade and light stone factory, while his younger brother Adam (1875–1941) continued to run the quarries, of which Kleinziegenfeld was the most important, and the stone workshops.
While before this change of operator it was probably only a very small break on a rock face, from 1912 it developed into a real quarry. Before that, stones for building houses, cattle bars and garden posts were also used privately by the local population. In the following decades, the quarry grew steadily and in the course of the National Socialist Reichsautobahn construction almost received the order to supply stones for a planned motorway bridge construction over the Kleinziegenfelder valley at the Maria-Hilf-Chapel. However, since this construction project was never implemented, the delivery of the stones for the construction of the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin was the only order for a state building in the Third Reich .
When the quarry was no longer in operation at the end of the 20th century, the former factory buildings on the road through the Kleinziegenfelder valley were demolished around 2000. Operations resumed between 2000 and 2005. Since then, dolomite blocks have been sawn out of the rock face for high-quality natural stone products. Essmeyer Baulogistik GmbH from Bad Staffelstein has been manufacturing gravel, grit and dolomite sand since 2005. In recent years, Reisch Sprengtechnik GmbH has carried out drilling and blasting work with a volume of approx. 40,000 m³ in the quarry on behalf of the operating company.
In the summer of 2011, the operating company Scheuermann Naturstein GmbH & Co. submitted an application to the Lichtenfels district office to expand the quarry to an area of 12,450 m². In the preliminary assessment of the environmental impact assessment procedure, it was found that no major negative effects on the environment are to be expected from the quarry expansion. The mining area will expand to around 0.048226 km² in the coming years. Until 2013, the stone was marketed by the now closed company Burgkunstädter Natursteinwerke . Since the liquidation of the Burgkunstädter Natursteinwerke, the dolomite has been sold directly by Scheuermann Naturstein GmbH & Co.
Rock needle at the quarry
On the eastern edge of the quarry is at 455 m above sea level. NN a rock needle each around 5 meters wide and long and a good 20 meters high , a natural monument that is listed in the geotope register of Bavaria of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as the "Dolomite tower in the Kleinziegenfelder Tal" under the geotope number 478R005. The rock needle consists of secondary dolomitized reef limestone from the Malms Gamma to Delta . In the state of conservation it is considered to be “not impaired” and of geoscientific value. When in 1938 the remains of the Arnstein castle stable and the associated rocks were removed, the Lichtenfels district office issued instructions that the rock needle at the quarry must be "protected".
literature
- Josef Urban: Small goat field. A walk through its history. In: From the Main to the Jura. Local history magazine for the Lichtenfels district. Vol. 10, 2001, ISSN 0177-1558 , pp. 24-47.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Urban: Kleinziegenfeld. 2001, pp. 24–47, here p. 44.
- ↑ a b c d Günter Dippold: The Lichtenfels Trade Association 1902–1934 ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . P. 24–25, bekreis-oberfranken.de, accessed on June 5, 2015, (PDF 762.24 KB).
- ↑ removal blasting , reischsprengtechnik-gmbh.de, accessed on 30 December 2012
- ↑ Bärbel Holländer: 90 Years Scheuermann , natursteinonline.de, accessed on December 30, 2012 (PDF 315.51 KB)
- ↑ a b c d Immission control approval procedure for the expansion of the “Kleinziegenfeld” quarry (Official Gazette of the Lichtenfels District, No. 8, September 21, 2011) (PDF; 193 kB), lichtenfels.bayern.de, accessed on December 30, 2012
- ↑ Ann-Katrin Haußmann: Accents in gardens and parks . natursteinonline.de, accessed December 30, 2012 (PDF 1.44 MB, offline)
- ↑ a b c d "Dolomitturm" in the Kleinziegenfelder Tal (478R005) , lfu.bayern.de, accessed on December 30, 2012 (PDF 170.04 KB)
