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The Königgrätzer Elbe sandstone is highly valued due to its characteristic warm-toned colours, colour transitions and textures, as well as its versatile application and suitability. Particularly noteworthy is the great integrity potential and the harmonious compatibility with numerous existing buildings in many old town centres that characterise the cityscape. Numerous historical objects bear witness to this. The Podhorni quarry has been mined for several centuries and is now one of the most efficient quarries with yellow fine-grained sandstone in Bohemia.
Many sustainability criteria are met to a particular extent with this material.
Technical Information
Mineral composition
Quartz (73%), rock fragments (19%), feldspar (7) and accessory (1%)
Visual appearance
Ochre-yellow sandstone with changing colours, fine sandy structure, fine-pored, homogeneous and a texture with parallel and oblique layering. Partly with iron oxide accumulations.
Quartz
sandstone with rock fragments and kaolinitic, siliceous bond.
Detail colours
quartz: pale yellow, binder: ochre yellow, accessories: brown-black
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