sentences:  Eßweiler has only one outlying centre, called the Schneeweiderhof ("Hof" means “estate” in German, and the name takes the definite article), lying some 3 km from the village at an elevation of about 500 m above sea level on the Bornberg.Its history is tightly bound with the stone quarries that were established there beginning in the 1870s.Between 1922 and 1924, the then owners of the quarries, Basalt-Actien-Gesellschaft (a company that is still in business today, based then, as now, in Linz am Rhein and known as Basalt AG for short), built a workers’ settlement for quarry employees, the "Kolonie", out of basalt stones.