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Wackelstein (Rocking Stone)

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Wackelstein (Rocking Stone)

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Wackelstein (Rocking Stone)

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Naturpark Bayerischer Wald

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Location: Saldenburg, Freyung-Grafenau, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Wackelstein (Rocking Stone) – Steinernes Kirchlein loop from Entschenreuth

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3. Little stone chapel – Wackelstein (Rocking Stone) loop from Entschenreuth

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Berg_Pfoten

October 7, 2018

The rocking stone is quite an experience. A huge stone lies on top of another and can be made to shake by one person. Certainly an experience with children too!

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Ivana

April 10, 2021

Nice hiking trail to the Wackelstein, worth seeing

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Jonny

May 26, 2018

Wobble or rocking stones (English rocking stones) are mostly phenomena caused by deposits or weathering in boulders that balance easily movable on their base. They are formed preferentially from granitic outcrop rock as a later phenomenon of wool sack weathering, less often from horizontally banked sedimentary rocks.

First of all, the weathering processes widen the primarily created fracture systems in the rock until the rock complex disintegrates into individual blocks over time, which are then gradually eroded - more and more fragmented. In rare cases, larger individual blocks are preserved in an exposed "wobbly" position. A type of shape similar to the rocking stone is the mushroom rock.

The astonishing mobility of the balanced, often huge masses led in many places to the creation of myths and legends in which such stones play an essential role, for example as oracles or "toys" of giants.

Another genus are rocking stones created by human activities. In Ganløse Eged, a 167 hectare forest on the Danish island of Zealand, the stone of a Langdysse (dolmen) has been turned into a rocking stone.

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Location: Saldenburg, Freyung-Grafenau, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Wackelstein (Rocking Stone) – Steinernes Kirchlein loop from Entschenreuth

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