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Limestone Heap and Gouley Granite Eggs

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Limestone Heap and Gouley Granite Eggs

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Limestone Heap and Gouley Granite Eggs

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Wurmtal südlich Herzogenrath, einschließlich Meisbach, Würselen

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Location: Herzogenrath, Städteregion Aachen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. To the Blue Stone Obelisk – Gouley Eggs loop from Aachen West

28.6km

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360m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Gouley Eggs – Wilhelmstein Castle loop from Herzogenrath

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02:08

440m

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary.

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3. Gouley Eggs – Wilhelmstein Castle loop from Kerkrade Centrum

38.4km

02:54

590m

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SunnyKay☀️🚴‍♀️🐾

December 16, 2016

Directly near the restaurant Teuterhof Hütt'n we drive into the black and white heap landscape. First, past a 10 m high steep wall of the white Kalkhalde. It is not a mining relic, but store here kohlesaure lime residues of a former soda factory. It continues to the "black" Gouley heap and long you do not have to wait until you come across the first of the 18 meters high and 1.50 meters long Graniteier. A little further up, a "lookout pulpit" was created.

Looks a bit bizarre - for me it could be dinosaur eggs on Lanzarote :-)

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Grenzer

March 14, 2017

There are 18 granite stones on Gouley Pit. An egg weighs 2 tons and is 150 cm tall. Landscape architect Norbert Kloeters placed the "Dino Eggs" in the contrarian landscape of white sodahalden and black mining waste dumps to create the prehistoric landscape.

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Kusi

December 5, 2020

A piece of the history of our region

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Distance 1.53 km

Uphill 30 m

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Location: Herzogenrath, Städteregion Aachen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Limestone Heap and Gouley Granite Eggs

1. To the Blue Stone Obelisk – Gouley Eggs loop from Aachen West

2. Gouley Eggs – Wilhelmstein Castle loop from Herzogenrath

3. Gouley Eggs – Wilhelmstein Castle loop from Kerkrade Centrum

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