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Dormitzer Forst

Ohrwaschl Quarry

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Dormitzer Forst

Ohrwaschl Quarry

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Location: Dormitzer Forst, Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Markus-Currentless⚡

September 17, 2019

Great corner in the Reichswald the old quarry. Absolutely worth seeing and in connection

with the Wildpferdgehege you can make a great tour :)

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Rombea

May 6, 2020

In this quarry, sandstone was mined for the area. A very interesting site with an intact basement and various mining sites, caution is advised. The name "Ohrwaschl" was taken from an older quarry that was already in this area in 1600.

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March 12, 2022

Up until 110 years ago, there was a thriving inn in the Ohrshampoo forest area, where the hiking trails from Erlangen to Kalchreuth and from Nuremberg-Neunhof to Dormitz cross. Today only the former rock cellar remains.

How did that happen? Many old houses in the towns and villages in our area are built of sandstone. These stones were mostly quarried in the Reichswald around Nuremberg, especially in the Tennenloher Forest. The blocks were taken away by cart, worked by stonemasons and then sold as building blocks.

It wasn't until late, namely in the 17th century, that stone quarrying began in the Ohrwaschl. In 1839 a small forest house was built for the forest workers and as a shelter. Eight years later, the forest authority leased the quarry to master quarrymen Wolfermann and Geiger, and later to Geiger and Horlamus. In 1852 he submitted an application to build a "little house". In 1865 it became an apartment, a barn, stables, a smithy and a summerhouse, which Horlamus sold to his successor Johann Meyer. He set up a beer business, and a cellar was carved into the sandstone to cool the beer. His successor Matthäus Eckart then built a new, larger house in 1872 with the permission of the head forester of Dormitz. In 1890 Johann Georg König acquired the restaurant and his sister Magdalena in particular was a very good cook and landlady, as old documents report.

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Location: Dormitzer Forst, Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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