Erdgeschichtliche Sammlung der Märker Zement GmbH Werk Lauffen

About the museum

The collection was established in 1957 at the initiative of the management of the Lauffen Portland cement works and now belongs to the plant of Märker Zement GmbH. It preserves finds that came to light during rock quarrying in the quarries of Lauffen and Neckarwestheim.

The rooms were redesigned in 1986 and reopened in 1987. At the center are large rock slabs from the Upper Muschelkalk with fully preserved sea lilies, as well as evidence of the Ice Age from the loess deposits of the quarries: mammoth tusks and bone fragments of steppe bison, woolly rhinoceros, wild horse and deer. The exhibition is supplemented by quartzite rocks from higher gravel deposits of the Urneckar (ancient Neckar).

Highlights

• Slabs from the Upper Muschelkalk with fully preserved sea lilies
• Sea lily bank from the Neckarwestheim quarry
• Mammoth tusks from Ice Age loess
• Bones of woolly rhinoceros, steppe bison, wild horse and deer
• Quartzite rocks from the gravels of the Urneckar

Permanent exhibition

• Erdgeschichtliche Sammlung – Fossils and Ice Age finds from the plant's quarries, including sea lily slabs from the Muschelkalk and remains of mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and steppe bison.

Founded

1957

Operated by

Märker Zement GmbH

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The museum is on the grounds of the cement works at Oskar-von-Miller-Straße 48 in Lauffen am Neckar.

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