Wandhoff foundling
The Wandhoff boulder (or Wandhoff giant boulder ) is a boulder that is exhibited in a boulder garden in Kreuzfeld, Bad Malente , in Schleswig-Holstein . After the Düvelstein, it is the second largest boulder in Schleswig-Holstein and the largest boulder in the Ostholstein district .
The stone was found in the neighboring gravel pit in 1983 . In 1990 it was recovered from the gravel pit (using a crane, a flatbed truck and an armored recovery vehicle ) and has since been exhibited in a geological boulder garden , along with numerous other boulders . The boulder consists of coarse-grained granite with crystals of gray feldspar , blue quartz and black mica . It also contains pieces of other rocks up to 20 centimeters in size, including hornblend gneiss and amphibolite .
It weighs around 126 tons, is 4.0 meters high, 4.20 meters long and 3.50 meters wide. Its age is around two billion years. It was brought to its place of discovery by ice age glaciers from Småland in southern Sweden . The giant boulder has been protected as a natural monument since November 17, 1992 .
The information board for the Wandhoff foundling
The Wandhoff foundling (from SO)
The Wandhoff boulder (from NW)
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- Bad Malente-Gremsmühlen: erratic boulder garden. (with picture)
- The Ice Age ... ( Memento from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Schleswig-Holstein Ice Age Museum eV (with picture)
- Lutz Förster: Witnesses to the Ice Age. ( Memento from November 2, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Chapter 11 in: Newly discovered Ostholstein. Pages 45-48
Coordinates: 54 ° 8 ′ 55.1 ″ N , 10 ° 31 ′ 24.6 ″ E