Steineckl quarry

The Steineckl quarry (also Negri quarry ) is an abandoned quarry in Maiß near Altlengbach in Lower Austria .

The abandoned quarry, whose fine-grain and weather-hard Fylsch sandstone was used in the construction of the New Linz Cathedral , was managed by Cesare Negri , who came from Italy . The stones, which were broken and roughly hewn between 1862 and 1924, were initially brought to Neulengbach by horse and cart and transported to Linz on the Western Railway with 250 wagons a year, where they were further processed by stonemasons. Up to 100 people worked in the quarry, mostly Italians.

The stone of the war memorial erected in Maria Anzbach in 1921 comes from this quarry.

Today the area around the quarry houses a pond with rare horsetail . The area was gradually populated and Steineckl today is as a rotting of the community Altlengbach.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Negri quarry - Neustift-Innermanzing (on Altlengbacher Boden) on neustift-innermanzing.at
2. ↑ Nature Conservation , News of the Naturschutzbund Niederösterreich, issue 2 - 2014, Vienna PDF page 18

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 6.7 ″  N , 15 ° 55 ′ 16.7 ″  E