The Quarry Guide

Experience the Bergische Grauwacke up close: During an informative tour of an active quarry operation, you will learn interesting facts about the work of pounders and tippers, the lives of stonecutters and the modernisation of the quarries. Alternatively, you can explore the million-year-old evidence of history while searching for water lilies, shellfish and shells. As part of a guided tour, you can even become a stonecutter yourself and take a personal memento made of Bergische Grauwacke home with you! You can find all information about the offerings from LindlarTouristik online at www.lindlar-touristik.de.

Even at the LVR Open-Air Museum Lindlar, everything revolves around Grauwacke: here you can find a stonecutter’s hut, a roughly 600-metre-long light railway track, a working cable excavator and a wheel loader. The latter was originally used in the quarry operation of the Grünhage/Althoff family in Lindlar. You can find more information online at www.freilichtmuseum-lindlar.lvr.de.

In the Bergisches Hiking Country, you will find 24 themed hiking trails on various topics: the Bergisch Scout Trails. One of them is the 6.2-kilometre-long “Steinhauerpfad” (Stonecutter’s Path), which leads from the centre of Lindlar to the quarries on Brungerst. It is just a few hundred metres from the Grauwackemuseum. You can find the exact route online at www.bergisches-wanderland.de.

Back in 2010, regional stakeholders came together in the project “Grauwacke – Experience Diversity”. Their goal was to make Grauwacke better known beyond the borders of the Bergisches Land. As part of this initiative, an observation platform with a view of an active quarry was created near Gummersbach-Talbecke. You can find more information online at www.bergische-grauwacke.de.