Andernach
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| English title | Andernach |
| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Stadt Andernach |
| Year of publication | 1973 |
| Languages | German (main text) |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | Summary Translation Part of a series about the history of the town of Andernach in the Rhineland-Palatinate, dealing with the town’s trade, covering customs, cranes, log rafts and shipping. The goods traded include millstones, which were quarried in the Eifel. The quarrying of basalt lava for the stones was of ever greater importance from Roman times until the early 20th century.In prehistoric times querns of stone quarried in the Eifel were exported to the Lower Rhine, Switzerland and eastern France. There are Bronze Age examples in England. The Romans took them for their armies. The stone was brought in its raw form to Andernach and shaped there. Production of millstones remained important until the early 1900s, although they were not always exported in such large quantities as in Roman times. There was another upsurge in demand when the Dutch needed particularly large mill stones for grinding tuff for hydraulic mortar.There are black-and-white photos of querns and mill stones and one of the quarries and two plans showing where the stones were produced and shipped from. |
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Accession no. 229728
- Shelf location: W 114.3_HUN
- Donor: Ken Major Collection