Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone

Guardian on the Bismarck bridge in Halensee near Berlin

Fountain by the Nymph Pool in Dresden's Zwinger Palace

Schwerin Castle

Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone (German: Reinhardtsdorfer Sandstein, also Oberquader or Hauptsandstein) is quarried in the vicinity of Reinhardtsdorf near Pirna in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge in the German Free State of Saxony. It is the so-called main sandstone of the Elbe sandstones, and was formed in the Middle Turonian. In 2008 there was one quarry that won this particular sandstone.

See also

• List of sandstones
• Cotta Sandstone
• Posta Sandstone
• Wehlen Sandstone

Sources

• W. Dienemann und O. Burre: Die nutzbaren Gesteine Deutschlands und ihre Lagerstätten mit Ausnahme der Kohlen, Erze und Salze, Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart 1929.
• Siegfried Grunert: Der Elbsandstein: Vorkommen, Verwendung, Eigenschaften. In: Geologica Saxonica Journal of Central European Geology 52/53 (2007), p. 143-204 (Digitalisat Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine)

External links

• Technical data of Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Citizen's initiative against a quarry in the Alte Poste valley