St. Egidien area

The St. Egidien area contains more than only the sub-locations of St. Egidien itself. The are is full of sites containing Frankenberg, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Kuhschnappel, Rüsdorf & Wüstenbrand. It is the best known location of lithophysae agate for the eastern part of Germany.

Sources:

Frankenberg "Hausdorf"
Hohenstein-Ernstthal "Heiterer Blick"
Kuhschnappel
- sphere occurance
- gas pipeline
Rüsdorf
- Forest
- lens occurence

St. Egidien
- Centralfield
- Eastfield
- Westfield
Wüstenbrand

Hohenstein-Ernstthal

The site of Hohenstein-Ernstthal "Heiterer Blick" is located in the forest but not really near the area called 'Heiterer Blick'. The t-eggs can get quite large and show more activities like moss and gravity banding than the St. Egidien ones.

Kuhschnappel

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A nice lithophysae agate from the gas pipeline construction works near Kuhschnappel.

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A typical round shaped egg with nice moss inclusions from the sphere occurance near Kuhschnappel.

Rüsdorf

Two unique speciemns from the Forest occurance near Rüsdorf. One has an open cavity at the left (probably a perimorphose) and some nice gravity banding paired with long string moss on the right. The other pictures red stained jasper with a smokey quartz cavity.

#1: 60x61mm

#2: 79x75 mm

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A tiny lens shaped lithophysae agate filled with moss and jasper from the site Rüsdorf.

St. Egidien

St. Egidien is one of the best known sites for thundereggs in Germany. The variety and the history of that place made it that famous. Here you can see a nice batch of various eggs from my collection.

Pink pair: 38x60 mm

Light blue: 30x41 mm

Orange-green-pink: 41x33 mm

Orange: 42x40 mm

Violet: 49x52 mm

Green Jasper: 55x59 mm

White Floater: 50x55 mm

Red Star: 51x56 mm

Breccia: 54x52 mm

Dark Red: 54x56 mm

Blue: 67x67 mm

Red Breccia: 69x57 mm