Washing stone (stump chamber)
The Waschstein is a boulder below the Königsstuhl in the Jasmund National Park on Rügen . The boulder comes from the north-east of Bornholm and consists of Precambrian Svaneke - granite . In 2005 it was designated as a geotope with the number G2_071.
The boulders off the coast Jasmund are the glaciers from Scandinavia during the last ice age in the Pleistocene been transported to Northern Germany.
The washing stone , 22 m 3 in size and weighing around 60 tons, is on average 4 m long and 3 m wide and high. One of the first descriptions of the stone was made in 1797 by Johann Friedrich Zöllner in a travel guide for Pomerania and Rügen. This boulder is the scene of the legend of the virgin on the Waschstein near Stubbenkammer, which has been described several times in the Pomeranian regional literature. The story is one of the extensive legends surrounding the legendary pirate Klaus Störtebeker .
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania : Geotope registration document G2_071 Waschstein. Schwerin 2005 ( Online , PDF , 7 KB).
- ^ Johann Friedrich Zöllner: Journey through Pomerania to the island of Rügen and part of the Duchy of Mecklenburg in 1795 . In letters. With coppers and tables, Friedrich Maurer, Berlin 1797, p. 276
- ^ Project Gutenberg: The Jungfrau am Waschstein near Stubbenkammer , accessed on August 13, 2013
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. 28.
- Harry Schmidt: The largest boulders on the island of Rügen , 1965, p. 14.
- Karl Lemke, Hartmut Müller: Natural monuments , tourist, Leipzig a. Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-350-00284-6 , p. 224.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 34 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 39 ′ 44 ″ E