David and Goliath (Foundling)
The boulder David and Goliath is one of the largest boulders in the Osnabrück region in Lower Saxony and in northwestern Germany. As part of land consolidations, a large boulder was uncovered on the northwest slope of the Hülsberg near Glandorf -Averfehrden (near Bad Laer , in the extreme south of the Osnabrück district ). When the stone was exposed, a wedge-shaped fragment was loosened, which is referred to as "David", while the greater part was named "Goliath".
Goliath weighs about 63 tons and has a circumference of about 11 meters. David weighs 4 to 5 tons. Its circumference is about 6 meters. The stones were lifted in 1979 and erected about 300 m south-southwest of the site on the B 475 as a natural monument.
Rock investigations have shown that the boulder originally came from central Sweden and is a so-called Filipstad granite , a biotite granite that carries hornblende. During the Saale Ice Age (the middle of the three great ice ages around 230,000 - 140,000 years ago) it was transported by glaciers over a distance of around 1250 kilometers to Averfehrden.
The state of Lower Saxony determines the size of boulders in the Lower Saxony Implementation Act for the Federal Nature Conservation Act of 2010. Rocks with a diameter greater than two meters must be reported to the municipality or the nature conservation association.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '33.3 " N , 7 ° 58' 4.8" E