Buskam

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The Buskam lying in the Baltic Sea (also Buskamen or Buhskam ) is the largest erratic boulder found so far in North Germany.

Location and nature

It is located about 350 meters from the beach on the southeast coast of Rügen, just east of the seaside resort Göhren in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He is surrounded by other boulders that consistently much smaller and almost constantly, however, are under water. Its size is specified with a volume of 600 cubic meters, a mass of 1600 tons and a circumference of 40 meters. Approximately one third of this (206 cubic meters ) above the water. However, due to the results of a recent survey it could also be considerably smaller. He would therefore have a weight of 550 tons at a volume of 206 cubic meters. The scope of the stone was measured at the seafloor at 27.5 meters and 24 meters above the water with.

This large boulder stands depending on water levels up to 1.5 meters above the sea beyond. The Buskam has a granitic composition, the structure of the granite corresponds to the Hammer granite called on the Danish island of Bornholm. It can therefore be assumed that he was transported by a glacier stream of the Scandinavian ice sheet during the last ice age to Rügen.

Name

The meaning of the name, there are several theories. The name Buskam could " kamien bogis " from the old Slavic, which means God's Stone ( bog = god, kamien = stone) would mean. It is also conceivable that the syllable bus stands for penance in a Christian understanding. But perhaps the syllable comes from the Middle Low German buhsen that would stand for swell noise and would describe the location of the stone in front of the coast.

History

The stone was used as early as the Bronze Age as a place of worship, as proven small cavities on the top. It provides a so-called Näpfchenstein dar. In Christian times, a cross should have been fixed in metal on the Buskam.

The boulder was during the Neolithic period still on the mainland. Only by the coast decline during the Littorina transgression its surroundings was flooded.

The Buskam is the subject of several myths and traditions. So to be on Walpurgis Night witches gather there and hold their dances. According to another tradition, the Buskam is a Adebarstein from which the stork brings the little children. It is also reported that the frequently seen before Moenchgut mermaids dancing on the stone.

Supposedly have passed that wedding parties with boats drove to Buskam and there danced a circle dance in Göhren also the custom. Given the already occurring at lower wind speeds over rinses of the stone, this tradition seems unlikely. The Buskam is difficult to achieve with a boat, because the land side stones are more closely below the water surface.