Ancient quarry

Ancient quarry

View up the access way to the old quarry, that now serves as an open-air museum, of Pfaffenweiler.

The hut in the background contained (among other things) the quarry’s smithy, it has been restored as close as possible to the old appearance.

None of the 10 or 11 quarries above Pfaffenweiler, that had their height in the 16th to 19th century, is still in use today – but this museum keeps the memory of the long tradition of masonry in this village alive. First documented mentions of one of these quarries can be dated to the year 1471.

The stone quarried here is a yellow sandy limestone with no or only few fragments of other rocks included in the rock matrix.

The mason Jörg Kempf used in 1561 stone from a quarry in Pfaffenweiler to create the pulpit of the minster in Freiburg.

Some (German) informations about the stone quarried here

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Location: old quarry above Pfaffenweiler, Schneckental (Germany)

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