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The Siebenschneiderstein (''Söbenschniedersteen''''Findling Söbenschniederst.'' at www.umweltkarten.mv-regierung.de. Retrieved 20 Jun 2019.) is a glacial erratic
on the island">glacial erratic">''Findling Söbenschniederst.'' at www.umweltkarten.mv-regierung.de. Retrieved 20 Jun 2019.) is a glacial erratic
on the island of Rügen. It lies about 22 metres away from the cliffs of ''Gellort'' on the Baltic Sea beach, one kilometre northwest of Cape Arkona. It has a mass (physics), mass of 165 tonnes and a volume of 61 m³. It belongs, like about 20 other erratics, to the legally protected
geotope A geotope is the geological component of the abiotic matrix present in an ecotope. Example geotopes might be an exposed outcrop of rocks, an erratic boulder, a grotto or ravine, a cave, an old stone wall marking a property boundary, and so for ...
s on the Island of Rügen. The rock is not the biggest erratic on Rügen (that is the
Buskam The Buskam, also Buhskam or Buskamen is a large glacial erratic boulder, 325 metres off the coast of Göhren, Rügen, northern Germany.Ingrid Schmidt: ''Hünengrab und Opferstein'', Hinstorff, Rostock 2001, p.42, Erratics (german: Findlinge) have ...
at 600 m³), but it is the fourth largest and marks the northern point of the island and hence the northernmost point of
Eastern Germany The new states of Germany () are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with its 10 states upon German reunification on 3 October 1990. The new ...
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Glacial erratics on and around Rügen This is a list of erratics on and around Rügen – the largest island off the Baltic coast of Germany. An erratic is usually defined (in Germany) as an individual block of rock lying on the surface of the land which has a volume of at least one ...


References

Geography of Rügen Putgarten Natural monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Glacial erratics of Germany {{VorpommernRügen-geo-stub