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Untersberg Marble Ball Mill (Kugelmühle) Marktschellenberg

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Untersberg Marble Ball Mill (Kugelmühle) Marktschellenberg

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Location: Marktschellenberg, Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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SaRie

June 14, 2017

Here is the last, still in operation marble ball mill in Germany. It is explained very informatively, how marble marbles are created with the power of water:

First, the marble tresses are collected and carved. Then the cubic marble pieces come into the ball mill.

This special construction consists of the lower, fixed grindstone (hard sandstone from the Obersalzberg) and the upper turntable (made of beech wood), on which the waterwheel (made of larch wood) is tapped.

The grinding time is 2-8 days, depending on the size. Then the balls have to be polished and polished before you can buy them as an original and valuable souvenir for the ones who stayed at home or as a souvenir of beautiful days in the Berchtesgadener Land at the kiosk.

Source and more information at: gasthaus-kugelmuehle.de/muehle.php

Tip: In the associated inn there are fantastic giant puffs

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Stefan Rudorfer

February 24, 2017

Here is the entrance to the Almbachklamm where the ticket booth is. Here is also a good restaurant to stop off.

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Flo

January 28, 2017

On the riverside, this quaint inn in a wood-and-brick country house is 7 km from the nearest town, Berchtesgaden, and 12 km from 17th-century Hellbrunn Castle

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Location: Marktschellenberg, Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Untersberg Marble Ball Mill (Kugelmühle) Marktschellenberg

1. Low Tunnel in Almbach Gorge – View of the Almbach Valley loop from Unterau

2. View of the Almbach Valley – Low Tunnel in Almbach Gorge loop from Unterau

3. Low Tunnel in Almbach Gorge – Almbach Gorge (Almbachklamm) loop from Unterau

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