Great stone (Altentreptow)
The large stone is a boulder on the Klosterberg in Altentreptow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The boulder made of medium-grain granite is located in an allotment garden on the Klosterberg.
After the smashing of the Great Margrave Stone, it is the largest boulder in the country in Northern Germany and the second largest known boulder in Northern Germany after the Buskam . It probably came to its current location during the Vistula Ice Age. It consists of hammer granite , named after the Hammeren region in the north of the island of Bornholm . According to legend, the devil (or a giant) threw him furiously at the church tower in Altentreptow, but missed it and the stone hit the monastery mountain.
Its dimensions above ground are: length 8.2 meters, width 6 meters, height 5.2 meters with a mass of around 360 tons. The volume of the stone protruding 2.6 meters from the earth is 133 m³ with a circumference of 23 meters. It is about two thirds below the surface of the earth, so the volume cannot be precisely determined. The size information is based on the traditional estimates, which are also used by most geologists in their publications.
The Big Stone is a natural monument and is listed as a geotope with the number G2_025. It is part of the 4880 square kilometer Geopark Mecklenburg Ice Age Landscape .
history
As early as 1832, the geologist Ritzky mentioned it in the Baltic Studies as one of the most important debris in northern Germany. The first pictorial representations have existed since around 1850. Around 1900 the boulder appeared frequently on postcards. In later representations it was referred to as the Bismarck Stone , inaugurated in 1915 and provided with a relief by Otto von Bismarck and an inscription “Bismarck April 1, 1815 April 1, 1915”. In November 1959 the relief was removed by order of the Ministry of State Security . The traces of this elimination can still be seen on the front.
literature
- Otto Gehl: The building material of the megalithic graves in Mecklenburg The boulders, bucks and rolling stones In: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaft, Berlin 1972 pp. 109–114 and Map 15: Distribution of large foundlings p. 262
Web links
- Geotope registration document: boulder Altentreptow. ( PDF ; 29 kB) State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , accessed on April 29, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the Altentreptow homepage ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 55.7 ″ N , 13 ° 15 ′ 7 ″ E