IN THE BASALT CRATER "BLAUER STEIN" NEAR KUCHHAUSEN/WESTERWALD Just a few hundred meters above the small Westerwald village of KUCHHAUSEN, the last residence of the world-famous photographer AUGUST

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NATURAL MONUMENT KETZERSTEIN IN THE HIGH WESTERWALD The basalt block group of KETZERSTEIN near WEIßENBURG/WESTERWALD was formed in the TERTIARY, 25-30 million years ago, as a weathered part of

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Germany / North Rhine-Westphalia / Region Cologne/Bonn

IN THE BASALT CRATER "BLAUER STEIN" NEAR KUCHHAUSEN/WESTERWALD
Just a few hundred meters above the small Westerwald village of KUCHHAUSEN, the last residence of the world-famous photographer AUGUST SANDER known for his photographic work, lies in a forest area the approximately 100-meter-long oval basalt formation "BLAUER STEIN," where in the NEOZOIC, 5-25 million years ago, lava rose through a vent in the bedrock and solidified into angular columns....
Until the 1920s, basalt was quarried here by the LINZER BASALT-AG, today it is a fascinating place... on 4.11.2018

Hans-Peter Kampmann 04.11.2018, 468 Views, 0 Comments * automatically translated