Boulder Nardevitz

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The foundling Nardevitz protrudes more than three meters from the ground

The Nardevitz boulder , also known as the Großer Stein von Nardevitz , is one of the largest boulders in northern Germany. It is located about 400 m north of Nardevitz, a district of the municipality of Lohme , on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

This extra-large boulders block consists of granite , the coarse-grained microstructure which on the island of Bornholm in the upcoming corresponds encountered Hammer granite. The potash feldspars are brownish gray to pale red and up to 1.5 centimeters in size. The crystals , up to five millimeters in size, have a brownish tinge.

Surrounded by trees and bushes as well as other debris that were in the way of agriculture, it lies in the middle of a field. Its volume is estimated at 120 m³, which corresponds to a mass of 325 tons. The part that can be measured above ground has a volume of 71 m³. This makes it the second largest boulder on Rügen after the Buskam , which is located off Göhren in the Baltic Sea , and a special geological attraction.

Since the Nardevitz boulder was used for a long time for the extraction of building material, it is now assumed that it was once three times as large. In 1854 and 1855, for example, the six column drums, each weighing around five tons, and the parts of the pedestals of the Prussian columns weighing up to two tons at Neukamp and Groß Stresow were knocked out of it. For the production of the six column drum segments alone, 32 to 34 m³ were split off. Clear traces can be seen on the stone, which point to a further destruction of the boulder planned at the time.

Today the boulder Nardevitz, like numerous other boulders on the island of Rügen, is one of the legally protected geotopes . It is registered in the corresponding cadastre at the State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with the signature "G2 075".

  • The Nardevitz boulder is surrounded by farmland

  • For a long time it served as a "quarry"

  • Its surface shows old traces of further attempts at division

See also

literature

  • Christian Svenson: Protected boulders on the island of Rügen. State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Güstrow 2005.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geotope registration document: Findling Nardevitz. (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. 106-107.

Coordinates: 54 ° 34 ′ 46.2 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 9 ″  E