Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone

Guardian on the Bismarck bridge in Halensee near Berlin
Fountain by the Nymph Pool in Dresden's Zwinger Palace

Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone (German: Reinhardtsdorfer Sandstein, also Oberquader or Hauptsandstein) is quarried in the vicinity of Reinhardtsdorf near Pirna in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge in the German Free State of Saxony. It is the so-called main sandstone of the Elbe sandstones, and was formed in the Middle Turonian. In 2008 there was one quarry that won this particular sandstone.

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    Coordinates: 50°53′51″N 14°10′15″E / 50.897491°N 14.170936°E / 50.897491; 14.170936

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