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Kreis Bergstraße

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Entrance to the Former Marble Mine (Marmoritwerk)

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Karlsruhe District

Kreis Bergstraße

Bensheim

Entrance to the Former Marble Mine (Marmoritwerk)

Entrance to the Former Marble Mine (Marmoritwerk)

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    Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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    August 2, 2021

    It has been known for decades that the mine tunnel is an important winter habitat for bats. In the 1950s and 1960s, bats were counted and ringed by employees of the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt. It is known from that time that even the lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) and the pug bat (Barbastella barbastellus) hibernated here, species that have now become extremely rare.

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      August 1, 2021

      In 1842 this tunnel was driven into the mountain over a length of 150 meters in order to mine marble here.

      But the ancient Romans already mined the Auerbach marble in the area.

      And in 1865 the foundation stone for industrial marble mining was laid here.

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        December 29, 2022

        Marble was quarried here. Auerbach marble, a metamorphic rock, occurs in a strip about two kilometers long in the Odenwald, south of Hochstädten near Auerbach. Auerbacher marble is important in terms of architectural history because it played a role as a stone and there are few occurrences in Germany. It is believed to have been mined in Roman times.

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          Location: Bensheim, Kreis Bergstraße, Karlsruhe District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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