Grieser Stein

Focus on Grieser Stein
This massive "Griese Stein" is a souvenir from primeval times.
He was about 100 meters from here in the ground with only his head sticking out.
But the whole field "Am Griesen Stein" was named after him and recorded in a map from 1836. The ice age with its glaciers from the far north of Scandinavia brought him here.
In painstaking work, the local residents dug the stone free and lifted it with heavy equipment. Before it was placed here, it was weighed on Wilken's load scale: 17,758 tons.
In July 1979 the installation of the stone was inaugurated as a "hallmark for state forests. Therefore the stone was included in our emblem.
The path on which the stone stands leads in a southerly direction to Bethen.
It is abolished to the north, but used to meet the old Garreler-Weg in the middle of the airfield and was therefore the shortest connection between Garrel and Bethen.
In the spring of 2008, the residents built a pavilion for themselves and for the day-trippers staying here.
A few 100 m towards the town center you come across the remains of the former Westfalenhof estate.
The: Hofparzelle was settled for the first time in 1913.
In 1920 they acquired the Klöckner works and expanded their property to almost 300 hectares. August Sudhaus was the administrator and later the tenant.
He successfully farmed as a teaching and seed company for potatoes, grain and
Corn. In 1940 the entire area came to the state for the airfield.
Under the English occupation, the outbuildings facing the airfield burned down.
The manor house burned down in 2000 and was then demolished.
The still standing ruins were destroyed by fire in July 2007.
The manor is now privately owned.
Between 1926 and 1939, 18 properties were built to the right and left of the current meadow path, around the "Griesen Stein" and in the center of the village. They are mostly agricultural businesses or are used as such as a sideline.