Winnberg quarry
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 10.8 " N , 11 ° 28 ′ 26.3" E
The disused Winnberg quarry in the municipality of Sengenthal near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate was used to extract raw materials for cement production by Georg Behringer KG and until 1986 for HeidelbergCement AG .
It is now owned by the Wolfgang Prüfling Foundation for the promotion of environmental and landscape protection . However, it may only be entered after prior registration and with the express approval of the foundation or the current representative, Manfred Görlich. Permits to excavate fossils are also issued.
Geologists from all over the world have now visited this site, as the layers of the Middle and Upper Jurassic are accessible here:
- Braunjura beta (iron sandstone; fossilleer)
- Brown Jurassic delta (layers of the Garantiana and Parkinsonia with rich, mostly shell-preserved fauna: ammonites , mussels, snails and also rusts of the "giant belemnite" Megateuthis)
- Braunjura epsilon and zeta
- Marl of the Weißjura alpha with rich small fauna (e.g. the smallest belemnite rusts in the world Suebibelus pressulus)
- White Jurassic alpha limestone
There is a hiking trail around the quarry from which you can view the quarry. There is a stone house nearby (made of stones picked up from fields) that is intended to serve as a refuge for hikers.
Geotope
The quarry is designated as geotope 373A011 by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment. See also the list of geotopes in the Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate .
Web links
Individual proof
- ↑ Geotope: Former quarry northeast of Sengenthal (accessed on August 22, 2013; PDF; 178 kB)
- Hermann Schmidt-Kaler, Helmut Tischlinger, Winfried Werner: Walks in the history of the earth, Volume 4, Sulzkirchen and Sengenthal - two famous fossil sites on the edge of the Franconian Alb. 1992, ISBN 3-923871-64-3