The Museum of Sandstone in Havixbeck introduces a stone with history.
(In a Baumberger quarry)
(Sandstone-reduction. Lithograph about 1850)
Baumberger Sandstone - that''s not only a building material, but also a high-classsculpture material.
(Staff-photo of the quarry Wieskamp, 1897)
This fine-grained stone has been worked in the quarries nearby Havixbeck (at the Baumberge, wich means tree mountains) for 1000 years. Since that time it has been used - especially in the medieval age - in Northern Germany, in the Netherlands and in the Baltic States.