Archaeo Trail Dresden: From Open-Pit Mining to Biotope – Brickworks in Prohlis and Nickern
Archaeo Trail Dresden: From Open-Pit Mining to Biotope – Brickworks in Prohlis and Nickern
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Archaeo Trail Dresden: From Open-Pit Mining to Biotope – Brickworks in Prohlis and Nickern
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December 21, 2025
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The clay layers, up to eight meters thick, at the foot of the slope near Prohlis and Nickern provided an ideal raw material for brick production. Between 1873 and 1890, several brickworks were built amidst fields and orchards. Flooding brought an end to intensive gravel extraction in 1953. Since 2006, the "Old Brickworks" has been surrounded by a biotope.
•March 1, 2021
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dresden.de/media/pdf/presseamt/pm-ab-2018/ArcheoPfad_Faltplan_online.pdf
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