List of the largest stone balls
Map with all coordinates: This list of the largest stone balls contains stone balls made of natural stone over 1.50 meters in diameter. The balls are made from one piece or from several individual parts and were produced either by hand or with stone processing machines.
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| 3.00 m | The consisting of 15 stone pieces Large globe (Engl. "Great Globe") of Swanage in southern England is one of the largest stone balls in the world, consisting of limestone were produced. The limestone ball weighs about 40 tons. ( Position ) | 1887 |
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| 3.00 m | On the Piazzale del Foro Italico in Rome at the Spheres Fountain is the world's largest globe made from one piece of natural stone made of Carrara marble . The marble ball weighs 37 tons. ( Position ) | 1937 | |
| 2.75 m | A stone ball sliding on water with the typical pattern of a football ( position ) is located in front of the Donbass Arena in Donetsk , Ukraine . It is the world's largest stone soccer ball sliding on a film of water. It weighs 28 tons. The soccer ball is composed of several black and light stone parts made of hard stone . | 2009 | |
| 2.65 m | In Richmond in the US state of Virginia there are two sculptures “Earth and Moon” in front of the Science Museum of Virginia , which slide on a film of water ( position ). The so-called “Grand Ball” is a large Impala globe . It is a norite , a rock similar to gabbro . This stone ball weighs 26.3 tons. | 2003 |
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| 2.60 m | Since October 2010 the “ Large Red Sphere ” by the artist Walter de Maria has been exhibited in the so-called “ Turkentor ”, the only remnant of Munich's Prinz-Arnulf-Kaserne (also called “Turkenkaserne”) . This granite ball, weighing 25 tons, measures 2.60 m in diameter. | 2002 |
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| unknown | In front of the Toyota Stadium in the Japanese city of Toyota , a soccer ball that glides on water ( position ) was set up on the occasion of the Soccer World Cup in 2002 and is composed of two types of hard rock and several individual parts. | 2002 | |
| 2.40 m | About 300 historical stone balls in Costa Rica made of gabbro , sandstone and shell limestone are known so far. The size of the massive spheres ranges from a few 10 centimeters up to 2.40 m. The exact age of the stone balls and their purpose are not known. ( Position ) | unknown |
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| 2.008 m | In front of the EM stadium in Wals-Siezenheim near Salzburg , on the occasion of the European Football Championship in 2008 , a stone football made of hard stone, which is composed of 32 stone parts, was set up. It was made from 20 hexagonal pieces from light French camouflage granite and 12 pentagonal pieces from dark impala from South Africa . The Austrian stone football is hollow on the inside and weighs 2.4 tons. It rests on a base made of Untersberg marble . | 2008 |
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| 2.00 m | In Munich, at the north entrance of the New Munich Trade Fair Center, there is a stone soccer ball sliding on water in the so-called World Cup fountain made of Impala, which was formed from a block of stone. The water basin is made of Tittlingen granite . The World Cup fountain was erected on the occasion of the 2006 World Cup . The ball of the World Cup fountain weighs 11.3 tons. ( Position ) | 2006 |
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| 2.00 m | In the so-called Kugelbrunnen in front of the company building of the Kusser Granitwerke in Aicha vorm Wald in Lower Bavaria there is a stone ball made of gneiss , probably Paradiso ( ~ position ), sliding on a film of water . This stone ball was formed from a raw block. | unknown |
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| 1.80 m | The World War II Memorial, made from a microgabbro of the "SSY material", is sliding on water and is located in Nashville , Tennessee in the Bicentennial Mall State Park ( position ). The bright fountain bowl is made of Tittlinger granite. The sphere with an engraved world map moves with an inclination of the earth's axis of rotation between the north and south poles of approx. 23 ° to the vertical. | 1996 |
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| approx. 1.80 m | The ball fountain in Opava is on the upper ring (Horní náměstí) in front of the Silesian Theater. Its sphere symbolizes the sun. The cosmic proportions of the solar system are to be clarified with other design elements of the fountain system. The Czech architect Ivo Klimeš created the design for this fountain. The ball was made in the workshops of the Hořice stonemasonry school from the Cretaceous sandstone from Podhorní Újezd . | 1971-1972 |
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| 1.80 m | Stone football made of granite, which the football club Borussia Mönchengladbach set up for the 110th anniversary in the Mönchengladbach district of Eicken on Eickener Straße / Thüringer Straße on April 23, 2010, the place where the club was founded ( position ). The stone soccer ball weighs about 10 tons. | 2010 |
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| 1.70 m | A seven-ton sliding stone ball is located in front of the stone worlds in the Granite Center Bavarian Forest in Hauzenberg ( position ). | unknown |
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| 1.50 m | Memorial in London for the attack in Bali on October 12, 2002 in which 202 people from 21 countries were killed. Doves are engraved in the granite ball. The names of the dead are written on a Portland limestone wall behind the sphere. The memorial is located near the Cabinet War Room . | 2006 |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Isle of Pirbeck, Durlston Castle & The Globe . Isleofpurbeck.com. 2010. Archived from the original on April 1st, 2010. 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. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
- ↑ Eamonn Canniffe: The Politics of the Piazza: The History and Meaning of the Italian Square. Ashgate Publishing. Hampshire 2007. ISBN 978-0-7546-4716-4 Available online , accessed May 13, 2010
- ↑ Information onwirtschaftsjunioren-passau.de ( Memento of the original dated August 4, 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. , accessed on May 23, 2010
- ↑ World's largest swimming soccer ball: Illustration and information on kusser.com ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 30
- ^ Website of the Science Museum of Virginia ( Memento from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 1, 2010
- ↑ Grand Kugel at Science Museum of Virginia , accessed May 1, 2010
- ↑ Grand Kugel at Science Museum of Virginia , accessed May 1, 2010
- ↑ World's largest swimming soccer ball: Illustration and information on kusser.com ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 30
- ^ Brendan M. Lynch: University of Kansas researcher investigates mysterious stone spheres in Costa Rica . , accessed on May 13, 2010
- ↑ The riddle of Costa Rica's stone balls on spiegel.de , accessed on May 13, 2010
- ↑ Helmut Moser Granite Football for Salzburg ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Helmut Moser on handwerkspreis.at
- ↑ Press information about the World Cup fountain on niederbayern.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 11, 2010
- ↑ information on nashville.about.com , accessed 13 May 2010
- ↑ Illustration of the fountain with a map of the world ( memento of the original dated February 5, 2009 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. , accessed on May 13, 2010
- ↑ Martin Strakoš: Bruselský styl na Ostravsku II . (2008) accessed on May 13, 2010 (Czech)
- ^ Alois Jilemnický: Kámen jako událost . Hradec Králové (Panorama) 1984, pp. 325, 333 (Czech)
- ↑ Information on gladbach.webnode.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 4, 2010
- ↑ Information on niederbayernobenauf.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 23, 2010
- ↑ Information from the website of martincookstudio.co.uk, the sculptor who created the ball ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 11, 2010
- ↑ Information on www.martincookstudio.co.uk ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 11, 2010
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