Giebichenstein boulder

The Giebichenstein near Stöckse, Germany, in the district of Nienburg, Lower Saxony, is one of the largest erratic boulders of northern Germany. It weighs around 330 tonnes (730 thousand pounds). A picture of the Giebichenstein is part of the emblem of the Stöckse municipality.

The "Giebichenstein" near Stöckse, Germany

There is the supposition that during Wolstonian Stage the stone was deposited by glaciers as a part of a moraine. Near the Giebichenstein there are the remains of a dolmen, and at the stone itself there were found the remains of a Stone Age hunter's camp.

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52°37′59″N 9°18′53″E / 52.63306°N 9.31472°E / 52.63306; 9.31472

360° view of the Giebichenstein