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Quarry in the Steinpötzig area and abandoned settlement Bötzelberg

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Gesees

Quarry in the Steinpötzig area and abandoned settlement Bötzelberg

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Location: Gesees, Landkreis Bayreuth, Franconian Switzerland, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Röhrensee – Buchstein Rock Formation loop from Birken

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2. View of Sophienberg and Gesees – The Broad Oak (Breite Eiche) loop from Lerchenbühl

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3. View of Sophienberg and Gesees – The Broad Oak (Breite Eiche) loop from Forkendorf

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September 13, 2022

Location 5 and 6 of the "Gesees 3 circular hiking trail"

Excerpt from the leaflet:

"Location 5: Rhaetolias quarry in the Steinpötzig area

The particularly dominant in the area between Schöner Aussicht and Buchstein

ning Rhätolias sandstone (also called Gümbel'scher sandstone).

very friable and less suitable as a building block than as building sand. a

The area at the extreme eastern edge of the Kühanger corridor represents

am Steinpötzig, directly on the municipal boundary to Bayreuth (in the area of the

"Eben") and near the district road to Bayreuth.

Here we find an abandoned, based on several artificially beaten

gener mining areas still recognizable quarry. He played an important one

Role for the reconstruction of the center of Forkendorf after the fire

from 1860. Now non-combustible building materials were used for fire prevention

authorities required. And the new regulation was strictly controlled.

After the fire of 1860, Forkendorf made use of sandstone ashlars in Steinpötzig as building material. Because here you can find

the sandstones closest to the village that could be used.

This spatial proximity saved considerable effort and costs when transporting

Sandstone blocks from quarries further away (e.g. in Eckersdorf).

Location 6: Bötzelberg deserted settlement

On the other side of the Gesees-Bayreuth district road, halfway up the slope, is the Steinpötzig parcel of land, where a lonely farm used to stand. The individual farmstead of Bötzelberg in the Steinpötzig parcel of land, which no longer exists today, is in the "Geseeser Büchla" of

Pastor Hübsch (1842, p. 68) mentions:

"Bötzelberg with 1 family and 5 people, built by the current owner J. Dörnhöfer in 1831." This new building, which was only built in 1831, should be seen in connection with the neighboring former quarry that we have just visited. Here are probably the blocks cut in the Steinpötzig quarry The farm is said to have been abandoned as early as 1874:

"The wasteland of Pötzelberg or Steinpötzig no longer exists." (Description of the rural community of Forkendorf 1874, p. 2). It must therefore have already become a deserted settlement before that, probably around 1870. The property thus possessed a total of one mention from 1831-1870 only a lifespan of about forty years."

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February 16, 2025

The deserted village only existed for about 40 years. It is assumed that the quality of the sandstone was not that good. This suggests that the quarry and the houses were abandoned. Due to the loose quality of the stone, sand is mainly mined in this region.

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Location: Gesees, Landkreis Bayreuth, Franconian Switzerland, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Quarry in the Steinpötzig area and abandoned settlement Bötzelberg

1. Röhrensee – Buchstein Rock Formation loop from Birken

2. View of Sophienberg and Gesees – The Broad Oak (Breite Eiche) loop from Lerchenbühl

3. View of Sophienberg and Gesees – The Broad Oak (Breite Eiche) loop from Forkendorf

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