Siebenschneiderstein

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Gellort, the northern tip of Rügen with the Siebenschneiderstein
Siebenschneiderstein
Siebenschneiderstein

The Siebenschneiderstein ( Low German : Söbenschniedersteen) is a boulder on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is located 22 m from the foot of the Gellort cliff on the Baltic Sea beach , one kilometer northwest of Cape Arkona . It has a mass of 165 t and a volume of 61 m³ and, like many other boulders on the island of Rügen, belongs to the legally protected geotopes .

The stone is not the largest boulder on Rügen (that is the Buskam with 600 m³), ​​but as the fourth largest boulder on Rügen it marks the northernmost point of the island and thus eastern Germany . It consists of coarse-grained Karlshamn granite .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 5.4 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 41.6"  E