List of meteorites in Germany

According to the Meteoritical Bulletin, 53 officially recognized meteorite finds have been recorded in the area of Germany within its current borders . In 35 of them, the fall of the meteorite was observed before the discovery.

Notes and table

There are three of the meteorites listed here, of which there is no longer any material, including the Bad Rodach meteorite fall (1775) , which has only been very poorly verified. In addition, the Mauerkirchen meteorite fall (1768) is listed, which according to today's definition is no longer part of German territory due to a historical border shift. The authenticity of the Königsbrück meteorite as a German find has meanwhile been questioned many times. The names of all five events were put in brackets.

The official recognition of the Inningen meteorite fall (1998) was withdrawn after it was found that the finder had given a fragment of the already known Sikhote-Alin meteorite as a new meteorite. It has therefore been removed from this list.

Surname	Coordinates	Location	Mass in grams	class	Fall date or year of discovery
Aachen	50 ° 46 ′ 30.0 ″  N , 006 ° 05 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Aachen , North Rhine-Westphalia	21st	Common chondrite (L5)	Fall, around 1880
Barntrup	52 ° 00 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 009 ° 06 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Barntrup , North Rhine-Westphalia	17th	Common Chondrite (LL4)	Fall, May 28, 1886
Benthullen	53 ° 03 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 06 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Wardenburg , Lower Saxony	17,250	Common chondrite (L6)	Find, around 1951
Bitburg	49 ° 58 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 006 ° 32 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Bitburg , Rhineland-Palatinate	1,500,000	Octahedrite (IAB)	Find, before 1805
Blaubeuren	48 ° 24 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 009 ° 46 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Blaubeuren , Baden-Württemberg	30,670	Common chondrite (H4-5)	Fund, 1989 , only recognized as a meteorite in 2020.
Braunschweig	52 ° 14 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 010 ° 31 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Braunschweig , Lower Saxony	1,300	Common chondrite (L6)	Fall, Apr 23, 2013
Breitscheid	50 ° 40 ′ 01.0 ″  N , 008 ° 11 ′ 01.0 ″  E	Breitscheid , Hesse	1,500	Ordinary chondrite (H5)	Fall, Aug 11, 1956
Bremervörde	53 ° 24 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 009 ° 06 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Bremervörde , Lower Saxony	7,250	Ordinary chondrite (H / L3)	Fall, May 13, 1855
Cloppenburg	52 ° 50 ′ 16.0 "  N , 007 ° 59 ′ 46.0"  E	Cloppenburg , Lower Saxony	141	Common chondrite (H4-5)	Fund, March 15, 2017
Darmstadt	49 ° 52 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 39 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Darmstadt , Hesse	100	Ordinary chondrite (H5)	Fall before 1804
Dermbach	50 ° 44 ′ 10.6 "  N , 010 ° 05 ′ 31.7"  E	Dermbach , Thuringia	1,500	Ataxite (ungrouped)	Find, 1924
Eichstädt	48 ° 54 '00.0 "  N , 011 ° 13' 00.0"  E	Eichstätt , Bavaria	3,000	Ordinary chondrite (H5)	Fall, Feb. 19, 1785
Emsland	53 ° 06 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 007 ° 12 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Rhede , Lower Saxony	19,000	Octahedrite (ungrouped)	Find, 1940
Experience	52 ° 13 '00.0 "  N , 011 ° 15' 00.0"  E	Erxleben , Saxony-Anhalt	2,250	Ordinary chondrite (H6)	Fall, Apr. 15, 1812
Flensburg	54 ° 46 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 009 ° 23 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein	24.5	Carboniferous chondrite ungrouped (C1)	Fall, Sep 12 2019
Forsbach	50 ° 57 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 007 ° 19 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Rösrath , North Rhine-Westphalia	240	Ordinary chondrite (H6)	Fall June 12, 1900
Gilzem	49 ° 52 ′ 25.0 "  N , 006 ° 30 ′ 20.0"  E	Gilzem , Rhineland-Palatinate	436	Ordinary chondrite (H5)	Fund, 1987
Gutersloh	51 ° 55 '00.0 "  N , 008 ° 23' 00.0"  E	Gütersloh , North Rhine-Westphalia	1,000	Ordinary chondrite (H4)	Fall, Apr. 17, 1851
Grove	52 ° 17 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 55 ′ 00.0 ″  E	District of Minden , North Rhine-Westphalia	16,500	Mesosiderite	Find, 1856
Hunger	50 ° 18 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 55 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Hungen , Hessen	112	Ordinary chondrite (H6)	Fall, May 17, 1877
Ibbenbueren	52 ° 17 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 007 ° 42 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Ibbenbueren , North Rhine-Westphalia	2,034	Achondrite (diogenite)	Fall June 17, 1870
Kiel	54 ° 24 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 010 ° 09 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Kiel , Schleswig-Holstein	738	Common chondrite (L6)	Fall, Apr. 26, 1962
Small turns	51 ° 36 '00.0 "  N , 010 ° 48' 00.0"  E	Nordhausen , Thuringia	3,250	Ordinary chondrite (H6)	Fall, Sep 16 1843
(Koenigsbrück)	51 ° 16 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 013 ° 54 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Koenigsbrück , Saxony	52	Ordinary chondrite (H / L4)	Find, 2004
Crows Mountain	49 ° 19 '37.0 "  N , 007 ° 27' 53.0"  E	Krähenberg , Rhineland-Palatinate	15,750	Common Chondrite (LL5)	Fall May 5, 1869
Linum	52 ° 45 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 012 ° 54 ′ 00.0 ″  O	Fehrbellin , Brandenburg	1,862	Common chondrite (L6)	Fall, Sep 5 1854
Power stone	48 ° 17 '02.0 "  N , 011 ° 18' 48.0"  E	Schwabhausen (Upper Bavaria) , Bavaria	1,422	Ordinary chondrite (H5)	Find, 1956? Rediscovery in 2014
Mässing	48 ° 23 '00.0 "  N , 012 ° 36' 00.0"  E	Eggenfelden , Bavaria	1,600	Achondrite (howardite)	Fall, Dec. 13, 1803
Mainz	50 ° 00 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 16 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate	1,700	Common chondrite (L6)	Find, 1852
Marburg	50 ° 49 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 46 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Marburg , Hesse	3,000	Pallasite	Find, 1906
(Walled churches)	48 ° 11 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 013 ° 08 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Mauerkirchen , Upper Austria	21,300	Chondrite (L6)	Fall, Nov. 20, 1768
Menow	53 ° 11 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 013 ° 09 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Fürstenberg , Brandenburg	10,500	Ordinary chondrite (H4)	Fall, Oct. 7, 1862
Meuselbach	50 ° 34 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 011 ° 06 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle , Thuringia	870	Common chondrite (L6)	Fall, May 19, 1897
Nenntmannsdorf	50 ° 58 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 013 ° 57 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Pirna , Saxony	12,500	Octahedrite (IIAB)	Find, 1872
Neuschwanstein	47 ° 31 '30.0 "  N , 010 ° 48' 30.0"  O	Schwangau , Bavaria	6.218	Enstatite chondrite (EL6)	Fall, Apr 6, 2002
Niederfinow	52 ° 50 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 013 ° 56 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Eberswalde , Brandenburg	287	Octahedrite (IAB)	Find, 1950
Obernkirchen	52 ° 16 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 009 ° 06 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Rinteln , Lower Saxony	41,000	Octahedrite (IVA)	Find, before 1863
Oesede	52 ° 17 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 03 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Georgsmarienhütte , Lower Saxony	3,600	Ordinary chondrite (H5)	Fall, Dec. 30, 1927
Oldenburg	52 ° 57 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 10 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Grossenkneten , Garrel Lower Saxony	16,570	Common chondrite (L6)	Fall, Sep 10 1930
(Ortenau)	48 ° 30 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 00 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Ortenau , Baden-Württemberg	4,500	Stone meteorite, unclassified	Fall, 1671
Peckelsheim	51 ° 40 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 009 ° 15 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Peckelsheim , North Rhine-Westphalia	118	Achondrite (diogenite)	Fall March 3, 1953
Pohlitz	50 ° 56 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 012 ° 08 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Gera , Thuringia	3,000	Common chondrite (L5)	Fall, Oct. 13, 1819
Ramsdorf	51 ° 53 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 006 ° 56 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Velen-Ramsdorf , North Rhine-Westphalia	4,682	Common chondrite (L6)	Fall, July 26, 1958
Renchen	48 ° 35 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 008 ° 01 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Renchen , Baden-Wuerttemberg	993	Common chondrite (L5-6)	Fall July 10, 2018
(Rodach)	50 ° 21 '00.0 "  N , 010 ° 48' 00.0"  O	Bad Rodach , Bavaria	2,900	Stone meteorite, unclassified	Fall, Sep 19 1775
Salzwedel	52 ° 45 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 011 ° 03 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt	43	Common Chondrite (LL6)	Fall, Nov. 14, 1985
Schönenberg	48 ° 21 '00.0 "  N , 010 ° 24' 00.0"  E	Jettingen-Scheppach , Bavaria	8,000	Common chondrite (L6)	Fall, Dec 25, 1846
Simmer	49 ° 59 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 007 ° 32 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Simmern , Rhineland-Palatinate	1,222	Ordinary chondrite (H5)	Fall July 1, 1920
Steinbach	50 ° 30 '00.0 "  N , 012 ° 30' 00.0"  O	Ore Mountains , Saxony	99,000	Siderophyr / Octahedrite (IVA)	Finds, before 1724, before 1751, 1833, 1861
(Stolzenau)	52 ° 32 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 009 ° 03 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Stolzenau , Lower Saxony	150	Stone meteorite, unclassified	Fall, 1647
Stubenberg	48 ° 18 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 013 ° 05 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Stubenberg (Lower Bavaria) , Bavaria	1,320	Common Chondrite (LL6)	Fall March 6, 2016
Tabarz	50 ° 53 '00.0 "  N , 010 ° 31' 00.0"  O	Tabarz , Thuringia	150	Octahedrite (IIICD)	Find, 1854
Trebbin	52 ° 13 '00.0 "  N , 013 ° 10' 00.0"  E	Trebbin , Brandenburg	1,250	Common Chondrite (LL6)	Fall March 1, 1988
Treysa	50 ° 55 ′ 00.0 ″  N , 009 ° 11 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Schwalmstadt , Hesse	63,000	Octahedrite (IIIB)	Fall, Apr. 3, 1916
Undermassing	49 ° 05 ′ 25.0 ″  N , 011 ° 20 ′ 00.0 ″  E	Greding , Bavaria	80,000	Octahedrite (IIC)	Find, 1920
Wernigerode	51 ° 51 '00.0 "  N , 010 ° 47' 00.0"  E	Wernigerode , Saxony-Anhalt	24	Ordinary chondrite (H5)	Fund, 1970

See also

• List of meteorites in Bavaria
• List of meteorites in Austria
• List of meteorites in Switzerland

literature

• Monica M. Grady : Catalog of Meteorites . 5th edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 978-0-521-66303-8 .

Web links

• Meteoritical Bulletin Database
• Grady catalog (see literature)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Meteoritical Bulletin: Search the Database. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Meteorite Königsbrück. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
3. ^ Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Inningen.
4. ↑ two stones: 30.26 kg and 0.41 kg
5. ↑ Largest German stone meteorite found in Blaubeuren. In: dlr.de. July 15, 2020, accessed July 15, 2020 . 
6. ↑ At least five stones. Largest 2.75 kg.
7. ↑ Two stones. Weight of the first stone 1 kg, weight of the second stone unknown.
8. ↑ Two stones. 86 g and 26 g.
9. ↑ At the time of the fall, Mauerkirchen belonged to Bavaria .
10. ↑ Three stones. Two (1.750 kg and 1.625 kg) were recovered in Bavarian territory, one (2.843 kg) in Tyrolean territory. The coordinates given here indicate the position where the first piece was found.
11. ↑ Two stones. 11.73 kg and 4.84 kg.
12. ↑ Because of the dubious evidence and the missing meteorite, this case is not officially recognized.
13. ↑ Three stones. 610 g, 470 g and 42 g.
14. ↑ Four stones at various sites in the western Ore Mountains. Stone 1 “Grimma” (wrong location description / location unknown, before 1724), weight “several pounds”. Stone 2 (found in Steinbach near Johanngeorgenstadt, before 1751), weight at least 1.4 kg. Stone 3 (found in Rittersgrün, Ehrenzipfel district, 1833), weight 86.5 kg. Stone 4 (found in Breitenbach, Bohemia, 1861), weight 10.5 kg.
15. ↑ D. Johann Gottlob Lehmann: Kurtze introduction to some parts of mining science . Nicolai, Berlin 1751, p. 79–80 ( books.google.de [accessed August 26, 2017]).
16. ↑ Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni: About fire meteors, and about the masses that fell with them . JG Heubner, Vienna 1819, ISBN 978-5-87525-488-8 , p. 324, 326 ( books.google.de [accessed August 26, 2017]).
17. ↑ Otto Buchner: The meteorites in collections, their history, mineralogical and chemical properties . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1863, p. 124–126 ( books.google.de [accessed August 26, 2017]).
18. ↑ Thomas Witzke: Eisenmeteorite, photos and classification - Eisenmeteorite IV. Retrieved on August 26, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Several small fragments and splinters in the gram range as well as a large fragment (1.320 kg).

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