Giebichenstein

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.

The "Giebichenstein" in 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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