Uskam

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Uskam (Klein Helgoland)

The Uskam , located in the immediate area of ​​the beach promenade north of Sassnitz , also known as New Helgoland due to its shape , is the sixth largest known boulder on the island of Rügen .

Consisting of Precambrian Småland - Granite existing boulder was on 1999 Geotop captured. With a volume of 41 m 3 , it has a mass of 110 tons. The 5.5 m long, 4.80 m wide and 3 m high boulder made of reddish granite rich in alkali feldspar comes from southern Sweden and was transported with the glaciers to northern Germany in the Pleistocene during the last ice age .

The boulder could temporarily be entered over a bridge. A storm surge destroyed this bridge on 3rd / 4th November 1995. The metal bridge, which was restored a short time later, was destroyed again by heavy ice on February 21, 2002 and was not restored.

Like the Buskam , the Uskam is one of the so-called Adebar stones . According to legend, storks put babies from the Baltic Sea to dry on these stones and then brought them to their mothers' homes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania : Geotop G2_066 Uskam registration document. Schwerin 1999 ( Online , PDF , 7 KB)
  2. ^ Findling Uskam near Sassnitz , accessed on August 18, 2013
  3. ↑ Storchenlegende ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2016 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 August 18, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / museen.kulturportal-mv.de

literature

  • Christian Svenson: Protected boulders on the island of Rügen. State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology (Ed.), Greifswald 2005, 28 pp.
  • Harry Schmidt, Werner Schulz: The largest boulders in the Rostock district. (= Nature conservation work in Mecklenburg. 7th year, issue 1/2), 1964, p. 29.
  • Harry Schmidt: The largest boulders on the island of Rügen. , 1965, p. 15
  • Wulf Krentzien: Sassnitz im Wandel 1945 - 2007 , Sutton Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-302-2 , p. 67

Web links

Commons : Uskam  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 31 ′ 7 ″  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 45 ″  E