メンディヒの峡谷・トップ14

👌🏼🥾🥾It's like a playground for adults - a wildly romantic outdoor feeling 🌊📸 Spectacular trass walls from the former volcanic eruption🌋. 🌊📸A great photo location📸

You have to leave the Quellenweg for a short while, but it is worth visiting this place.

About 200,000 years ago, a volcanic vent opened up north of Wehr am Hüttenberg, throwing out loose volcanic material. During and after the eruption, there were violent storms caused by the hot gas column meeting the cold atmosphere. Rainfall combined the volcanic ash, the weathered clay of the Devonian rocks and shattered material into a muddy mass. This mud flow poured through the valley of the Wirrbach towards the Brohltal, sloshed up the Bausenberg slope (the volcanic mountain did not yet exist at that time) and flowed on to Burgbrohl. Source: https://niederzissen.de/die-trasswaende-in-niederzissen/

Crazy that all this came from a volcanic eruption

Imposing former quarry with a spectacular gorge-like entrance, at the same time a rustic spot for a picnic, seating with a table - highly recommended!

The thickness of the trass walls in this region are absolutely impressive. They all come from a single volcanic eruption that ended within a few days or weeks. It's a good thing we weren't there at the time.

Along the trass walls, you can see the impressive rooting of the deciduous trees. The Romans and later the Dutch dug trass out of the walls to make mortar, which was mixed with water and lime to make mortar. The Dutch used gluing to build dams and harbors.

The Marxe Lay is a basalt quarry that belonged to the Marx family. The walls of the quarry are 12 meters high. At the very top you can see the remains of a crane house.