The Giebichenstein in
Stöckse, Germany, is one of the largest
erratic boulders of northern Germany. It is in a city called Landkreis Nienburg/Weser. It weighs around 330 tons. A picture of the Giebichenstein is part of the emblem of the Stöckse municipality.
There is the supposition that during
Wolstonian Stage
The Wolstonian Stage is a middle Pleistocene stage of the geological history of Earth from approximately 374,000 until 130,000 years ago. It precedes the Eemian Stage in Europe and follows the Hoxnian Stage in the British Isles.
It is also appr ...
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.
Historical geology
Glaciology
Rock formations of Lower Saxony
Funnelbeaker culture
Glacial erratics of Germany
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