Posta Sandstone (german: Postaer Sandstein) also called Wehlen Sandstone (''Wehlener Sandstein''), only occurs on the eastern banks of the
River Elbe
The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Rep ...
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Alte Poste, near Herrenleithe,
Wehlen,
Zeichen and
Posta. The thickness of the deposit is between 30 and 50 metres. It is also known as ''Überquader'' ("Over Ashlar") and has the smallest deposit of all the
Elbe sandstones. In 2008 it was being quarried in the areas around the village of
Lohmen
Lohmen is a municipality in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany.
History
Lohmen was first officially recognized as a village in 1292. The village name comes from the Slovak term ''lom'' or "fissure". There were ...
and in Wehlen.
Quarrying and use
In 2008, Posta Sandstone was being won in two quarries in the
Wesenitz
The Wesenitz (''Wjazońca'' in Upper Sorbian language) is a river in Saxony, Germany, right tributary of the Elbe. Its total length is . The Wesenitz runs through the tourist regions of the Lusatian Highlands and Saxon Switzerland. Its name is d ...
valley and it was being used for solid window and door frames, façade slabs, sculptor's blocks and high-profile masonry work. It is used especially in restoration work and sometimes also in new structures. The following is a selection of the structures built in Posta Sandstone:
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Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
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** Ground floor of the
Berlin Institute of Technology
The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...
in Charlottenburg
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Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
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** Old Town (''Altmarkt'') (rebuilding after the Second World War)
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Bismarck tower
A Bismarck tower (german: Bismarckturm) is a specific type of monument built according to a more or less standard model across Germany to honour its first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (d. 1898). A total of 234 of these towers were inventoried ...
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** Dresden Bank buildings
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Anne's Church
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Eckberg Castle
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Dresden central station
Dresden Hauptbahnhof ("main station", abbreviated Dresden Hbf) is the largest passenger station in the Saxon capital of Dresden. In 1898, it replaced the ''Böhmischen Bahnhof'' ("Bohemian station") of the former Saxon-Bohemian State Railway (' ...
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Cosel Palace
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Church of Our Lady
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Zwinger Palace, brown studio
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Albrechtsberg Palace
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Hamburg
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Villa Offen
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Magdeburg
Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river.
Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebu ...
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** Alte Wache
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Senftenberg
Senftenberg ( wen, Zły Komorow) is a town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, capital of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district.
Geography
Senftenberg is located in the southwest of the historic Lower Lusatia region at the border with Saxony. It ...
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** War memorials for the dead of World War I
File:Dresden HBF Empfangshalle.jpg, Dresden central station
File:Schloss Albrechtsberg Dresden.jpg, Albrechtsberg Castle, Dresden
File:Schloss-Eckstein.JPG, Eckstein Castle, Dresden
File:Annenkirche Dresden Eingang.jpg, Entrance to Anne's Church, Dresden
See also
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List of sandstones
This is a list of types of sandstone that have been or are used economically as natural stone for building and other commercial or artistic purposes.
Trans-regional
(across state borders)
*'' Cornbrash Sandstone'': North Rhine-Westphalia, Lowe ...
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Cotta Sandstone
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Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone
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Wehlen Sandstone
Sources
* W. Dienemann und O. Burre: ''Die nutzbaren Gesteine Deutschlands und ihre Lagerstätten mit Ausnahme der Kohlen, Erze und Salze,'' Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart 1929, p. 304ff
* Siegfried Grunert: ''Der Elbsandstein: Vorkommen, Verwendung, Eigenschaften''. In: Geologica Saxonica Journal of Central European Geology 52/53 (2007), p. 143-204
Digitalisat
External links
Technical data on Posta SandstoneLaser cleaning of Posta Sandstone during restoration measures
References
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Sandstone
Elbe Sandstone Mountains
Quarries in Germany
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge