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Gorge to the Small Quarry – Clearly visible dinosaur tracks loop from Bückeberg

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Gorge to the Small Quarry – Clearly visible dinosaur tracks loop from Bückeberg

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Gorge to the Small Quarry – Clearly visible dinosaur tracks loop from Bückeberg

01:03

4.06km

20m

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Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 14, 2026

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Naturpark Weserbergland

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628 m

Gorge to the Small Quarry

Highlight • Gorge

A narrow path along the edge of the quarry, which is ideal for climbing. A highlight for us. Gladly more of such paths!

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885 m

Bückeberg Pine Forest at the Quarry

Highlight • Forest

Many small paths in old quarry area.

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983 m

Old Railway Bridge in Bückeberg Forest

Highlight • Bridge

The Obernkirchener sandstone is named after the place Obernkirchen am Bückeberg in northern Germany. The broken sandstone is also called Bückebergsandstein and Bremer Stein because it was often used in Bremen or shipped to the Weser. Said sandstone was transported by a narrow-gauge railway from the quarry. This highlight presents remnants of this train and a space below the bridge.

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1.07 km

Obernkirchen Sandstone Quarry Ruins

Highlight • Structure

Small lost place quarry with an old level crossing

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1.94 km

Dinosaur Tracks in the Obernkirchen Sandstone Quarries

Highlight • Natural Monument

The traces were discovered by the quarry operator and were extensively developed for tourism and science. They are freely accessible at any time and have been supplemented by informative display boards.
obernkirchen-info.de/bergstadt/dinosaurierwegen.htm

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2.10 km

Clearly visible dinosaur tracks

Highlight • Natural Monument

The fossilized tracks of the dinosaurs are 140 million years old.

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2.10 km

Obernkirchen Sandstone Quarries

Highlight • Structure

Where strong mountain ranges rise from the North German lowlands for the first time, the Obernkirchen sandstone quarries are located four kilometers east of Obernkirchen and six kilometers south of Stadthagen. Here, on the Bückeberg plateau, sandstone has been extracted from one of the oldest active quarries in the world for 1,000 years and is supplied to the whole of Europe.

While initially the extraction and preparation of the raw blocks was largely done using muscle power and the simplest tools, the first machines were used in the quarry as industrialization progressed. Hand hammer drills or wedge hole hammers were used to drill numerous drill holes or wedge holes into the rock so that the contours of the block were already predetermined. These rows of drill holes weaken the rock so that it can be separated by driving in wedges, working with crowbars or blasting with black powder. After the raw blocks have been released from the rock formation in this way, they are wrapped in chains and lifted out of the high wall by a derrick crane.

Since the 1980s, specially equipped wheel loaders have been used to extract the sandstone. They drive a breaking mandrel between the natural layers and hydraulically release the sandstone from the mountain in the form of blocks. The blocks extracted in this way are prepared for further processing with a block saw in the quarry.
Source: obernkirchener-sandstein.de/de/steinbruch

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Dinosaur Track Nature Trail – Station 6: Oberkirchener Sandstone Quarries

Highlight • Historical Site

... is about the importance of the Oberkirchen sandstone quarries beginning in the 12th century. til today.

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4.06 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

1.77 km

1.71 km

575 m

Surfaces

1.41 km

1.36 km

682 m

575 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Saturday 27 June

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21°C

15 %

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Gorge to the Small Quarry – Clearly visible dinosaur tracks loop from Bückeberg

Gorge to the Small Quarry

Bückeberg Pine Forest at the Quarry

Old Railway Bridge in Bückeberg Forest

Obernkirchen Sandstone Quarry Ruins

Dinosaur Tracks in the Obernkirchen Sandstone Quarries

Clearly visible dinosaur tracks

Obernkirchen Sandstone Quarries

Dinosaur Track Nature Trail – Station 6: Oberkirchener Sandstone Quarries

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