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Natural Monuments

Oberspreewald-Lausitz

Hohenbocka

Buck'sche Schweiz rock formations

Natural Monuments

Oberspreewald-Lausitz

Hohenbocka

Buck'sche Schweiz rock formations

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Buck'sche Schweiz rock formations

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Location: Hohenbocka, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany

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1. Tranquil Small Lake – Enchanted Pond loop from Peickwitz - Tśikojce

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2. Tranquil Small Lake – Enchanted Pond loop from Grünewald

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3. Turtle Rocks loop from Grünewald

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Kathrin

December 30, 2021

Buck'sche Schweiz is a natural monument, a gem made of hardened glass sand. A must see if you are in the area 👍

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Teufelchen New

February 25, 2024

In many places you walk in the forest in the quartz sand as if you were on a Baltic Sea island. The company premises that are cordoned off from mining alternate with a forest and lake landscape that has already been quite well renatured.

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Uwe Drescher

May 6, 2024

In the south of the Lusatian lignite mining area, very pure quartz sands are found beneath the Second Lusatian Seam, which were deposited there about 16 million years ago (Lower Miocene) as dune, beach or delta sands.[3] Since the first mining contract in 1857, the Hohenbocka glass sands, which are particularly poor in iron(III) oxide, became known worldwide in the following decades for the production of colorless and optical glasses.[3] Between Hohenbocka and Guteborn, silicification of the glass sands occurred in numerous narrowly defined places, which today form the striking rock formation of Buck's Switzerland at the former Heinrichsschacht sand pit.

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Location: Hohenbocka, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany

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Buck'sche Schweiz rock formations

1. Tranquil Small Lake – Enchanted Pond loop from Peickwitz - Tśikojce

2. Tranquil Small Lake – Enchanted Pond loop from Grünewald

3. Turtle Rocks loop from Grünewald

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