📜 Historic basalt quarry with unique geological formations.
🔍 Once the largest quarry in the Ore Mountains, active from 1906 to 1995.
⛏️ Explore a significant industrial heritage site
💎 Admire 40-meter-high stone 'organ pipes' and unique nephelinic basanite rock
🏞️ Enjoy nature in the Flooded Basalt Quarry
🚶♀️ Spend approximately 2 hours exploring the site
🏛️ Managed by the Cultural and Information Center of the Town of Rotava.
📍 Located in the Karlovy Vary Region, within the Ore Mountains area.
📅 Earliest mentions of a quarry for gravel and flux date back to 1785.
🏭 Steam crushing and sorting plant built in 1905 by the Ore Mountains Company.
📈 Produced up to 120,000 tons of aggregate annually in the 1960s.
🚫 Operations ceased in 1995 due to depleted reserves.