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Sandstone Trough (Sandsteintrog)

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Sandstone Trough (Sandsteintrog)

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  • Location: Losheim am See, Landkreis Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany

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    May 3, 2024

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    Sandstone trough

    This trough, which weighs around 3 tons, was made over 300 years ago from high-quality "Britter sandstone". Its original location was in a biotope on the current connecting …
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    The fairy tale of the sandstone trough

    Once upon a time there was a huge, colorful sandstone trough.

    For millions of years it had been baked together from all the …
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    People came, very small ones, who cheered around it, even crawled into it, and big men and women who scooped water or swung laundry in it. So our sandstone trough …
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    Elevation 280 m

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