Rauen quarry (Witten)
The Rauen quarry is a former quarry in the Gedern district of Witten . It cuts the Wartenberg on the northern flank of the Kirchhörde r saddle . The quarry is located in the Ruhr valley within the Witten main trough. The quarry has been part of the Ruhr Area Geopark since 2006 .
The outcrop shows an approximately 200 meter thick profile from the Sprockhövel Formation ( Namurium C ) of the Pennsylvania ( Silesium ). On the upper floor of the quarry you can find the sequence of layers from the Gottessegen seam to the water bank .
The Rauen quarry has been a ground monument since 2015 . Because of its natural history , regional studies and geological significance, rarity and uniqueness, he is also a natural monument excellent.
The Rauen quarry has belonged to cave explorer Stefan Voigt since 2017 .
See also
- List of natural monuments in Witten
- List of ground monuments in Witten
- List of quarries in North Rhine-Westphalia
literature
- Volker Wrede, Vera Mügge, Günter Drozdzewski: About coral reefs, horsetail and the old man. An exciting guide to 22 geotopes in the central Ruhr valley . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-439-5 .
Web links
- Rauen quarry near the Ruhr metropolis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rauen quarry. In: Mineralienatlas . Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Will the Rauen quarry become a ground monument? In: WAZ . September 13, 2013, accessed September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Susanne Schild: Speleologist buys Rauen quarry. February 6, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2019 (German).
- ^ Volker Wrede, Manfred Brix, Hans-Peter Noll: Excursion in the Ruhr area - Witten, Bochum, Dortmund-Bövinghausen . In: German Geological Society - Geological Association (Hrsg.): EDGG . No. 238 , 2009, pp. 82–84 ( online at the Annen History Society [PDF; accessed on 23 September 2018]).
- ↑ Susanne Schild: Speleologist buys Rauen quarry. February 6, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2019 (German).
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 16 ″ N , 7 ° 21 ′ 25.6 ″ E