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