Nardevitz Erratic

The boulder Nardevitz, also known as Big Stone of Nardevitz, is one of the largest boulders in northern Germany. It is located about 400 m north of Nardevitz, in the municipality of Lohme, on the island of Rügen.

Of trees and bushes as well as other attachments that were in the way of agriculture, surrounded, he is here in the middle of a field. Its volume is estimated at 104 m³, corresponding to a mass of 281 tonnes. The aboveground measurable part has a volume of 71 m³. He is, apart from Buskam that is before Göhren in the Baltic Sea, the largest erratic boulder of Pomerania and a special geological attraction.

As the boulder Nardevitz was used a long time for the extraction of building materials, is now thought that he was once three times as large. For example, were defeated in 1854 and 1855 are the six five -ton column drums and up to two ton parts of the pedestals of the columns in Prussia Neukamp or in large Stresow from him. On the stone distinct traces can be seen that point to a then -planned, further destruction of the foundling.

Today, the foundling Nardevitz, as almost 20 other boulders on the island of Rügen belongs to the legally protected geotopes. He is " G2 75 " is entered in the appropriate land from the State Department for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania with the signature.

The boulder Nardevitz consists of granite, whose coarse-grained microstructure corresponds to the on the island of Bornholm encountered in forthcoming Hammer granite. The potassium feldspars are brownish gray to pale red and up to 1.5 inches tall. The up to five millimeter crystals have a brownish approach.

He served for a long time as a " quarry "

Its surface also has ancient traces of other Zerteilungsbestrebungen on