Travertine park

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Aerial view of the travertine park
Restored facilities of the former Schauffele quarry

The Travertinpark is a parking area in the district Hallschlag of Stuttgart city district Bad Cannstatt .

location

The park extends from the Altenburger Steige over the vineyards of the Cannstatter Halde location below the Reiterkaserne to the area above the Stuttgart-Münster power station . The limits are the former premises of the Lauster company and the former sugar factory . Bottroper Strasse forms the northern end. The park was officially opened on May 19, 2010. At the end of September 2014, the entire park was opened to the public after a 14-month redesign of the core area of ​​the park.

The park is intended to commemorate the origin of the Cannstatter Travertine and its processing. The area is designated as a specially protected biotope and excavation reserve. Seven information boards explain the history of the site.

The gravel bed of the disused industrial line Münster – Cannstatt , the first electrically operated industrial line in Württemberg, stretches across the entire site . In the park, a switch and a level crossing have been preserved from the tracks themselves.

Quarries

Haas quarry (May 2010)

Three quarries for the extraction of the Cannstatter travertine are distributed over the area of ​​the park, those of the companies Lauster, Schauffele and Haas. The Schauffele dismantling area was refilled and is no longer visible. However, the historical crane runway restored in 2008 with other devices from the Schauffele company premises has been preserved.

The former site of the Lauster company is now the site of a recycling company and is currently not accessible. The historic factory hall and the administration building of the Lauster company are classified as cultural monuments.

The Haas quarry , from which travertine was mined for the last time, was integrated into the park's path system . Parts of the excavated rock were used, among other things, to build the Nuremberg March Field and the facade of the midnight building in downtown Stuttgart.

In the past, fossils such as forest rhinos , forest elephants and pond turtles were often discovered in the rock of the Cannstatt travertine . Also flint tools that link to prehistoric man suggest, were found in the quarries. Parts of the finds are exhibited in the State Museums for Natural History in Stuttgart .

Travertine columns

Not currently part of the park, 14 monumental travertine columns that are 15 m high stand between the two covers of the Stuttgart-Münster power plant. These are also called Lauster columns. The columns with cornices, designed according to the Tuscan order, were ordered from the Lauster quarry by the city of Berlin in 1936 . They were intended for the lower floor of a monument to Mussolini on today's Theodor-Heuss-Platz in Berlin. As part of the planned world capital Germania that was never picked up , they were bought back by the Lauster company after the Second World War .

literature

  • J. Baier (2020): The Cannstatter Travertine. - Exposure 71 (3): 144-53.

Web links

Commons : Travertine Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The travertine park - nature experience in the city. City of Stuttgart, September 16, 2014, accessed on November 16, 2014 .
  2. Colossal Columns | Stuttgart in the picture. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  3. Karsten Preßler: Ordered but not picked up: The pillars of the Lauster quarry in Stuttgart-Münster in the preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg, issue 2/2010, page 119 ff.

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 53.4 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 57.7"  E