The Siebenschneiderstein ( Söbenschniedersteen ) 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 of 165 tonnes and a volume of 61 m³. It belongs, like about 20 other erratics, to the legally protected geotopes on the Island of Rügen.
5-526: The rock is not the biggest erratic on Rügen (that is the Buskam 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 . 54°41′05.4″N 13°25′41.4″E / 54.684833°N 13.428167°E / 54.684833; 13.428167 This glaciology article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Vorpommern-Rügen district location article
10-409: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Buskam The Buskam ( German pronunciation: [ˈbʊs.kam] , locally [ˈbʊːskɒm] ), also Buhskam or Buskamen is a large glacial erratic boulder, 325 metres off the coast of Göhren, Rügen , northern Germany . Erratics ( German : Findlinge ) have been scattered all over northern Germany by the glaciers of
15-506: Is also conceivable that the syllable bus- stands for ‘atonement’ in a Christian sense. However, it is possible that the syllable comes from the Middle Low German buhsen , which would mean ‘swell, rush’ and would describe the location of the stone off the coast. 54°20′46″N 13°45′19″E / 54.34611°N 13.75528°E / 54.34611; 13.75528 This Vorpommern-Rügen district location article
20-508: The Ice Age , but are usually much smaller. The Buskam has a volume of about 600 m , a circumference of about 40 metres, and weights about 1,600 tons. A third of it (206 m ) lies above the water surface. Cavities in the rock indicate that the Buskam was used as a ritual place in prehistory , when such caved rocks were commonly used for ritual sacrifice . An iron crucifix
25-498: Was attached to it after the conversion of Pomerania . According to local legends and folklore , the Buskam is the site where witches dance during Walpurgis Night , and mermaids are also supposed to dance often on the rock. There are several theories about the meaning of the name Buskam. The name Buskam could be derived from the Proto-Slavic *bogis kamien , which means ‘god's stone’ ( *bog ‘god’, kamien ‘stone’). It
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