Copyright: Städteregion Aachen, Dominik Ketz
Der Hammerberg und das Zeitalter der Fische
Stolberg
Follow the path at Hammerberg - and go back 370 million years.
There was once a tropical sea here, where fine sediments were deposited at the bottom. Over thousands of years, this solidified into calcareous sandstone - a rock that still preserves fossils from that time: shells, crinoids and armored fish.
Thousands of years later, the mountain was transformed into a place of work. People dug tunnels into the rock, mined ores and used the stone for houses and paths. After the end of mining, nature reclaimed the area: forests grew, mosses covered the stone walls and bats moved into old tunnels.
Today, the route leads through a special landscape - shaped by water, shaped by man and reclaimed by nature. In the light, rough layers of rock, you can still sense the sea that roared here long before there were forests.
There was once a tropical sea here, where fine sediments were deposited at the bottom. Over thousands of years, this solidified into calcareous sandstone - a rock that still preserves fossils from that time: shells, crinoids and armored fish.
Thousands of years later, the mountain was transformed into a place of work. People dug tunnels into the rock, mined ores and used the stone for houses and paths. After the end of mining, nature reclaimed the area: forests grew, mosses covered the stone walls and bats moved into old tunnels.
Today, the route leads through a special landscape - shaped by water, shaped by man and reclaimed by nature. In the light, rough layers of rock, you can still sense the sea that roared here long before there were forests.
Impressions
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52222 Stolberg
