Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone

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.

Guardian on the Bismarck bridge in Halensee near Berlin

Fountain by the Nymph Pool in Dresden's Zwinger Palace

Schwerin Castle

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