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We have already mentioned that over the years, many of the millennia-old granite rocks up here in the Königshain forests have disappeared. Back then, people needed an enormous amount of cobblestones, especially for road construction, and the amount increased from year to year.

Yes, they even quarried the Eulenstein. But it was much nicer than this dead stone or the even creepier Devil's Stone! Humans...

But Eulalia, you're wrong. The Owlstone still exists. But the humans have forgotten where it is. And because they're always so embarrassed about forgetting, they claim it's gone. But it's still there. I'll show it to you as soon as we've finished here. But shh, the people here don't have to know everything...

The quarry is worked in shifts. We've already talked about that: First, the top layers of soil were removed to get to the rock underneath. That is already difficult. But you don't need really heavy equipment for that. The strong stone workers were able to do this with pure muscle power. Later, when everything had been removed from above, the rock was loosened, crushed and transported either by blasting or with large machines. As a result of this process, our landscape here is characterized by large open pits and steep quarry edges. This means that anyone traveling here in the dark has to be very careful.

By the way, at our miller's quarry you can see how the granite was removed in terraces. The men worked their way from floor to floor, from top to bottom. It is easy to see that the quarry's excavation area increases towards the bottom. The Müller quarry was the very first quarry of the C.C. von Thaden company, on whose former factory site our museum is located.