Strücker Stein
The Strücker Stein , also spelled Strüker Stein, is a 6 m high rock monolith approx. 800 m east of Olsberg - Assinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The Strücker Stein has been protected by the Olsberg landscape plan since 2004 as part of the 1.56 hectare natural monument "Iberg rocks and Strücker Stein". The Strücker Stein itself is also a legally protected biotope according to § 62 of the Landscape Act North Rhine-Westphalia , with the designation GB-131 and a size of 0.049 ha.
A wooden cross was erected on the Strücker Stein after mid-2008. In the northern part of the natural monument (Iberg rocks) there are old pings (former open-cast mines for ore mining). Similar to the Bruchhauser Stones located about 2.5 km to the northeast, the Strücker Stein served as a cult site in earlier centuries.
The Strücker Stein and the small tree population of deciduous trees surrounding it were previously not visible from a great distance because of the surrounding old spruce trees. Since the spruce trees were knocked over by Hurricane Kyrill in January 2007 and the deciduous trees felled, the 6 m high rock has been visible from afar, e.g. B. from the Ruhr valley or the Bruchhauser stones, clearly visible.
literature
- Hochsauerlandkreis - Lower Landscape Authority: Olsberg landscape plan . Meschede 2004, p. 88
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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '15.8 " N , 8 ° 31' 5.3" E