SANDSTEINMUSEUM  ENGLISH

Craft and Art in the Museum of Sandstone

EnglischThe 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.

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