Name: Findlingswald (Glacial Erratic Boulder Forest)
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North Rhine-Westphalia

Detmold District

Kreis Minden-Lübbecke

Petershagen

Findlingswald (Glacial Erratic Boulder Forest)

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Findlingswald (Glacial Erratic Boulder Forest)

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Location: Petershagen, Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Memorial for Prior Franzenii – Swimming Lake loop from Loccum

52.1km

02:51

140m

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2. Minden Lock – Minden Chamber Lock loop from Neuenknick

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03:15

160m

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3. Petershagen Lock – Memorial for Prior Franzenii loop from Loccum

40.4km

02:14

110m

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KristinF

August 14, 2021

This "boulder forest" is unparalleled in Germany in terms of its size.

Around 2000 boulders of almost every size have been gathered here with great effort since 1976. And there are more and more.

Heinrich Rode's father and grandfather already had professional dealings with these Ice Age relics by blowing up the boulders and thus enabling the farmers to better till their fields. The rubble from the boulders was used in road construction. Heinrich Rode, however, began to deposit boulders in his forest for the first time in 1976 in order to protect them from destruction. Since stones literally "grow" out of the earth year after year in this area, it has become an ongoing task to recover the rocky lumps, which are often rounded by glacier ice, from the field and present them to the astonished visitor.

The heaviest specimen weighs at least 12.5 t and is over three meters high. He became - how similar

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Location: Petershagen, Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Findlingswald (Glacial Erratic Boulder Forest)

1. Memorial for Prior Franzenii – Swimming Lake loop from Loccum

2. Minden Lock – Minden Chamber Lock loop from Neuenknick

3. Petershagen Lock – Memorial for Prior Franzenii loop from Loccum

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