Devil's Stone (Friedland)
The Teufelsstein is a boulder near Hohenstein , a district of Friedland in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is one of the largest boulders in the Mecklenburg Lake District . The stone is registered as a geotope at the State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania under the number G2_048 .
Its length is 5.2 m, width 4.8 m and height 3.2 m. With a circumference of 13 m, it has a volume of 41.77 m 3 . It consists of medium-grain granite and is criss-crossed by a light red aplite passage . Because of its shape, it is also known as the high stone .
The boulder lies on the ground moraine of the Mecklenburg phase of the Vistula glacial period . The glacier that brought the stone from Scandinavia , probably from Sweden, to its present location, covered the area around 13,000 years ago and formed the nearby compression moraine of the Brohmer Mountains .
The stone was already an important landmark in the Middle Ages . The former road from Friedland to Strasburg (Uckermark) ran near it . At the time when the city of Friedland was founded in 1244, the stone was used as a survey point . It marks the boundary of the districts between Friedland and today's district of Hohenstein.
South of the stone there has been a jug since the 15th century , which was still listed on the Schmettauschen map in 1780 as the Hohen Steinkrug inn . The Liebeck dairy, founded in 1805, was later named after the foundling in Hohenstein.
In 1988 the Teufelsstein was declared a natural monument.
According to a legend , the devil threw the stone from the Brohmer Mountains at the Friedland Church in order to destroy it. However, the stone fell halfway to the ground.
Web links
- Literature about Teufelsstein (Friedland) in the state bibliography MV
- Geotope registration document: Foundling Friedland. ( PDF ; 7 kB) State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , accessed on September 16, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f The Devil's Stone. An old landmark. Information board on the stone, Geopark Mecklenburg Ice Age Landscape , 2005.
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 9.7 " N , 13 ° 34 ′ 25.5" E