Basalt quarry cart at Roßbacher Häubchen

Basalt quarry cart at Roßbacher Häubchen

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Basalt quarry cart at Roßbacher Häubchen

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Location: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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March 27, 2023

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With the lorry used to be the
quarried basalt chunks transported away. Backbreaking work at that time. Information boards explain this dismantling.

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Svenja unterwegs

August 16, 2021

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Shortly before the summit of the Roßbacher Häubchens you reach a rest area with a cart and information boards for basalt mining.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

April 15, 2023

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"Basalt has always been used by people as a building block for walls, fortresses and road construction. When the first railway lines ran through the Westerwald in the middle of …

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