Brohmer egg

Brohmer egg next to two pillars

The Brohmer egg is a boulder in Neubrandenburg in the Mecklenburg Lake District . The stone designated as a geotope with the number G2_102 is located on Pontanusstrasse in a raised bed west of the former Franciscan monastery .

The stone, known because of its egg-like shape, is around 1.8 m long, 1.2 m wide and 1 m high. It consists of a medium-grain sandstone with clay galls in the layers. Boulders made of sedimentary rock with an extension of more than 1 m are under nature protection in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The sedimentary rock is probably the Rhät - Lias from Skåne or the island of Bornholm .

The boulder was in the Brohm estate park near Friedland until the second half of the 20th century . During the GDR era, it was brought to the district town at the instigation of Paul Schumacher, who was then head of the Neubrandenburg district museum . Deviating from its original position, the stone was placed with the flat side down.

Because of a trough-shaped, about 15 cm long depression in the underside, which is known as a "lady's slipper", it was assumed that it could be a small bowl stone . The State Office for Culture and the Preservation of Monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania came to the opinion, however, that the stone cannot be worked on by humans and that the deepening is based on irregularities in the sandstone.

See also : List of geotopes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

literature

• Helmut Borth: Oh, you big egg! Not a boulder, but a deported ground monument. In: Vier Tore Blitz on Sunday. Mecklenburger Blitz Verlag, Neubrandenburg, April 6, 2014, p. 13.
• Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen : How a pagan sacrificial stone became a "Brohmer egg". In: Oertzen-Blätter. News for members of the von Oertzen family. Vol. 49, Hamburg 2006, pp. 32-33.

Web links

• Literature about Brohmer egg in the state bibliography MV
• Geotope registration document: foundling Neubrandenburg. ( PDF ; 29 kB) State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , accessed on August 11, 2015 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '35.6 "  N , 13 ° 15' 37.4"  E