Stone rose
Stone rose is the slang term for a natural monument in Thuringia. It consists of a picrite that originated in the Middle Devonian , about 390 million years ago, as a submarine flow of lava . The lava emerging from the sea floor formed pillow-like bodies which, due to the sedimentation of clay mud before the beginning, during and after the end of volcanism, are now enclosed by slate . The lava cushions have an inner structure of concentric shells, which is carved out by natural weathering ( desquamation ), giving them the shape of a blossoming rosebud.
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The Stone Rose is located approx. 700 m north of Kloster , a district of the city of Saalburg-Ebersdorf in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia , on Reussische Fürstenstrasse (L 1095) directly on the right before the bridge over the former Schleiz-Saalburg railway line .
Furthermore, several smaller stone roses "bloom" on the castle rock in Ronneburg (Thuringia) .
Others
The stone rose was voted Germany's second most beautiful natural wonder of 2013 in a survey by the Heinz Sielmann Foundation EUROPARC Germany eV. There were 21 natural monuments to choose from from the national natural landscapes and other regions of Germany. The Rauhe Kulm near Neustadt am Kulm took first place . The boot at St. Ingbert followed in third place .
Web links
- The picritrose near Saalburg and Graefenwarth, geotope description of the Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG)
- City of Saalburg-Ebersdorf ( Memento from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 15 ″ N , 11 ° 44 ′ 5 ″ E