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SONJA GEHRKE
“Starting in 1860, Friedrich Hermann Rötschke had a half-circular arch of basalt and field stones built over the 35m-wide Rakotz Lake at Kromlau in Germany, with the work taking 10 years. In the lake he had basalt columns set up in a bizarre arrangement called an ‘organ’. The basalt was brought in from quarries in Saxon Switzerland and Bohemia.”