Großer Fallstein

The Great Falls Stone is a forest area in Saxony-Anhalt in the district of Harz in the field of city Osterwieck north of the resin. The highest point is 288 m above sea level. The ridge Great case stone floor belongs geographically to the Muschelkalkaufwölbungen the " Harlyberg Case Stone Huyberg - Hakel - Blankenburger surveys ". It involves a wide saddle. On the eastern edge of the saddle, relatively efflorescence resistant Cretaceous limestone to the surface, which were dissected out as a narrow ridge, the little stone case. The name Fallstein is due to numerous landslides that occur throughout the forest area of the Great Stein's case, but especially in its northern part.

The forest has an east- west distance of about 4 km and a north- south distance of about 4 km also. It is located south of the lowland area Large fracture, formerly led the German-German border by the. The area of ​​" forest area of ​​the case stone " is the conservation area; an approximately 71 -acre portion is also designated as a nature reserve " Great case stone ".

The Great Falls Stone is a term coined by beech, birch, oak and spruce mixed forest. In the forest lynx (2004) were observed.

On the northern edge of the Great Stein's case ( local situation stone mill ) was until 1930 the breakdown of travertine. From 1832 until 1849 was the Great Fallstein location of station No. 20 of the Prussian optical telegraph line, a communication system between Berlin and the Rhine Province.

Situated near the forest are many places, including Easter Wieck, Hesse, Rhoden, Deersheim and Veltheim.