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The Bergen boulder at the market

The foundling Bergen is located at the market in the city of Bergen auf Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It was transported with the glaciers of the Last Ice Age near where it is today.

Size and texture

The 41-ton boulder has a volume of 15 m³ and is 3.9 m long, 3.6 m wide and 2.1 m high and has a circumference of 14 m. According to the plaque in front of the stone, it has a mass of 35 t.

It consists of gneiss of unknown origin. The lighter passages made of granitic rock that run through the boulder are striking .

Cultural and historical significance

Until 1996 the stone was about 60 m further south on the edge of the church square. It was rediscovered during construction work under the remains of the foundations of a building that was built around 1700 as a "locker room" and served as a prison until the middle of the 19th century. Half of it was in natural ground , the upper half was previously exposed. The stone had four blast holes that were supposed to be used to break it up. In the end it was built over. An older wedge hole was found on the outer edge of the stone, which could have been used to attach a pedestal .

Old documents show that justice was done at this point. Matthäus von Normann , who worked as a clerk for several bailiffs of Rügen , described the court practice in Bergen in his work Wendisch-Rügianischer Landgebrauch , a collection of Rügen legal norms that he began in 1522 and supplemented until his death in 1556. The highest court on Rügen was therefore the Bergen stack. In the Middle Ages, a pile was the “stage” (often a judgment stone ) from which the judge announced the verdict. This princely Gardgericht was held weekly on the market square in front of the churchyard under the open sky (by schinender Sunne) . From all these circumstances it can be deduced that the boulder is the early medieval court stone from Bergen.

See also

Web links

Commons : Findling Bergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geotope registration document: Foundling Bergen. (PDF; 7 kB) State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , January 7, 2005 .;
  2. ↑ Ingrid Schmidt: Rügen stones tell - cultural stories from the island. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-356-01522-5 , pp. 16-19.

Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '4.4 "  N , 13 ° 25' 54.7"  E