Germany
Bavaria
Upper Franconia
Kronach
Pressig
Memorial to the 1963 Förtschendorf Quarry Disaster
Germany
Bavaria
Upper Franconia
Kronach
Pressig
Memorial to the 1963 Förtschendorf Quarry Disaster
Memorial to the 1963 Förtschendorf Quarry Disaster
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Location: Pressig, Kronach, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
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To commemorate seven buried quarry workers who lost their lives in the Becker hard stone works in Förtschendorf on March 21, 1963, owner Georg Carl had a memorial stone erected in 1988. Since this had become unusable due to the weather, the current owner of the quarry donated a new Grauwackenstein.
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•May 15, 2021
On March 21, 1963 at around 3:30 p.m. in the quarry of the Anna Becker hard stone works, around 35,000 cubic meters of rock broke loose at a width of 120 m and buried 7 workers, who could only be recovered dead. Water penetrating between a layer of clay and the rock was suspected to be the cause of the rockfall.
translated by•August 16, 2022
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