シュライデンの絶景の山頂・トップ14

The White Stone is approximately 6.5 meters long, 3.5 meters wide, and 1.5 meters high; it weighs about 50 tons. It originated over 30 million years ago as part of a sandstone ridge and was transported by glaciers during the Ice Age to its current location in the Bocksvenn fen. People lived in the area around it as early as 8,000 years ago. Hearths, tools, and flint fragments have been found nearby, indicating that the stone served as a prominent landmark in the landscape from an early period. Over the millennia, it has been reinterpreted time and again – as a boundary stone, cult stone, sacrificial stone, or meeting place. To this day, the White Stone is considered mystical and fascinating, as numerous myths and legends have grown up around it.

Behind the village of Mürringen, not far from the German border, in a wetland (Bocksvenn), you'll find a white-gray quartzite boulder, the so-called White Stone. The "White White Stone" is a Tertiary quartzite, a block of rock hardened by silica, some of which can still be found on the Eifel plateau, leveled by erosion, at elevations above 550 meters. Due to its hardness, this stone has not weathered like the other "young rock" in the surrounding area. At 692 meters above sea level, the White Stone is the second highest point in Belgium. Source: https://www.eifel.de/go/sehenswertes-detail/weisser_stein_buellingen.html

The stone is not worth making a detour, but if you pass it you can deviate from the road to view it via plank paths.

It is believed that the White Stone was revered as a cult object by the Celts.

At the bend of the path a slatted construction takes you to the Weise Stein (White Stone)

The Weisse Stein is located in the moor, in the immediate vicinity of the German-Belgian border, near the B265, in the municipality of Büllingen, province of Liège. This boulder, the deposit of a glacier (moraine) marks the second highest point in Belgium, 693.05 m. Anecdote: In 2010, the VRT (Flemish Radio) reported that the Weisse Stein was at a height of 701 m according to the latest measurements using Google Earth. Thus, Botrange (694 m) would have lost its status as the highest point in Belgium. This immediately got the engineers at the National Geographic Institute (IGN) on the scene. Their measurements resulted in 693.05m for the Weisser Stein and 964.26m for Botrange. The traffic offices breathed a sigh of relief, all was right with the world again

In the middle of the Bocksvenn, at the end of a footbridge, is the not-too-large boulder that gave the whole area its name. Au milieu de la Bocks-Fagne, au about d'une passerelle, see trouve le petit rocher qui a donné son nom à toute la région.

From the Pferdekopf vantage point, visitors can enjoy a beautiful view of the Eifel mountains around Kall. When the weather is clear, you can even see the Bay of Cologne. In the immediate vicinity there is a nice, clean refuge with a rest area that invites you to linger.