The Kuhlkerl is a sculpture on the back of Bad Bentheim Castle. It was erected as a memorial and is intended to commemorate the workers who toiled in the so-called hollows and broke the well-known Bentheim sandstone there. At that time, the Bentheim sandstone was a very popular building material and a best seller in the then County of Westphalia. The cool guy himself is a ...

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June 8, 2019

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In Bad Bentheim almost everything revolves around sandstone. Many of the works of art in public spaces are either made of sandstone or are directly related to it. At the castle park there is the sandstone museum.

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Karpaten Juppi

October 19, 2020

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Beautiful and somehow funny sculpture, the Kuhlkerl stands at the back of the Bad Bentheim Castle. It was erected as a monument and is intended to commemorate the workers who toiled in the so-called hollows and quarried the well-known Bentheim sandstone there.

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Location: Bad Bentheim, Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany

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