Goliath stone (boulder)

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The fragments of the Goliath stone are called "David Stone" as a natural monument

The Goliathstein is a boulder in the Mardorf district of Neustadt am Rübenberge in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . It is protected as a natural monument under the name "Davidstein" .

description

The Goliathstein is one of numerous boulders that remained in the northwest of today's Steinhuder Meer after one of the glacier advances of the Elster Glaciation. At the beginning of the 20th century attempts were made to blow up the Goliath stone . The largest remaining fragment of the small to medium-grain red granite weighs around 15  tons . Such large guiding debris of the red Växjö granite type is rare in the region.

legend

In a local legend recorded in writing in the 1950s, the Goliath stone on the Netteln Berg near Lütjen Mardrup is associated with the David stone located further east on the White Dune . According to this, the giant Goliath smashed his stone after he failed to throw it from the Brunnenberg in the Rehburg Mountains as far as David had succeeded with his stone.

The fragments of the Goliath stone are smaller today than the David stone. This often leads to confusion.

Natural monument

According to the 19th ordinance on natural monuments in the Hanover region, a “Goliath stone” - wisely written with quotation marks - is protected as a natural monument with the number ND-H 173. The description and position coordinates in the also binding annexes to the regulation are not those of the Goliath stone, but those of the David stone.

In the same documents there is a natural monument with the coordinates of the Goliath stone. However, this is officially referred to as the ND-H 174 "Davidstein".

Others

The landscape framework plan of the Hanover region and the map of the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology show a geotope "Goliathstein". However, this has the position coordinates of the Stone of David.

See also

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b 19. Ordinance on natural monuments in the Hanover region (new regulation ordinance). (pdf; 64 kB) in Common Official Gazette for the Hanover Region and the State Capital Hanover - Special Edition . Region Hannover, September 7, 2010, p. 3 , accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ The Goliathstein on the Nethelnberg (photo). (pdf; 1.84 MB) in Customs and Customs in Mardorf am Steinhuder Meer Compiled in extracts by Friedrich Dankenbring (Dorfgemeinschaft Mardorf eV on September 24, 2013). spurensuche.schaumburgerlandschaft.de, S. 159 , accessed on 18 March 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c Annex 1 to the 19th ordinance on natural monuments of the Hanover region (new regulation ordinance). (pdf; 233 kB) in Common Official Gazette for the Hanover Region and the City of Hanover - Special Edition . Region Hannover, September 7, 2010, pp. 26-27 , accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Tourist office Mardorf am Steinhuder Meer e. V .: Goliath stone. (pdf; 517 kB) www.mardorf.de, accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  5. ↑ 19. Ordinance on natural monuments in the Hanover region (new regulation ordinance). (pdf; 68 kB) in Common Official Gazette for the Hanover Region and the State Capital Hanover - special edition . Hanover region, September 7, 2010, accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Appendix 2: Site plans 1: 5,000. (pdf; 33.5 MB) in the Common Official Gazette for the Hanover Region and the State Capital Hanover - Special Edition . Region Hanover, September 7, 2010, pp. 137-138 , accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Appendix 3: Overview maps 1: 25,000. (pdf; 51 MB) in the Common Official Gazette for the Hanover Region and the State Capital Hanover - Special Edition . Region Hannover, September 7, 2010, pp. 293–294 , accessed on March 15, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Landscape framework plan of the Hanover region. Status 2013. pdf; 16.4 MB. Hanover region. Environment department. Nature conservation team 36.04, 36.05 AG landscape framework plan, p. 383 , accessed on May 13, 2015 .
  9. ^ Boulder "Goliathstein" (further information). on map servers , geotopes. LBEG, accessed on March 18, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 34.6 "  N , 9 ° 18 ′ 52"  E