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Koeberg Quarry

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Koeberg Quarry

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Koeberg Quarry

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Location: Eijsden-Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands

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April 24, 2025

Between Cadier en Keer and Groeve ’t Rooth lies the Schiepersberg, which extends eastwards in a long narrow forest zone to the road between Klein Welsden and Margraten. There are two quarries here in the Schiepersberg.

The small quarry in the Koeberg is located in a valuable heathland grassland. A little further on you will find the Juliana quarry, the largest of the two.

Geologically, both quarries are also very interesting. The slope forest is in full development and especially in the spring with its forest flora and numerous singing forest birds it is a pleasure to take a walk there. This can be done on the walking path, partly coinciding with the unpaved country road at the bottom of the slope.

Source: limburgs-landschap.nl/natuurgebied/julianagroeve-en-schiepersberg

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Bas Linssen

December 5, 2020

The quarry was mined by block breakers to mine limestone for the sprinkling of fields and meadows, for building material and for (burnt) plaster. In 1935, the quarry began to extract limestone for burning lime.

In 1939 the municipal council of Cadier en Keer decided to have a lime kiln built near the Koeberg. The soft marl from the Koeberg quarry turned out not to be suitable for burning in the lime kiln and was sold to the State Mines for the preparation of artificial fertilizer. Hard chunks also came out of the quarry and could be burned in the lime kiln. This burnt lime was used as masonry lime, plaster, as lime for whitening buildings and as lime fertilizer for fields.
The lime kiln was closed around 1953 and then demolished.

Source: wikipedia.

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SaTo

March 15, 2021

The Koeberg Quarry or Geological Monument Koeberg Quarry is a marl quarry and geological monument in the Dutch municipality of Eijsden-Margraten in South Limburg. The open-cast quarry is located northeast of Cadier en Keer on the southern slope of the Koeberg in the west of the Margraten plateau. The dry Sibbersloot valley is on the southwest side of the quarry. The quarry is located in the Bemelerberg & Schiepersberg area.

The Bunderberg quarry is located about 300 meters northwest and the Juliana quarry about 200 meters southeast.

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Location: Eijsden-Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands

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