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Ice Age Stone

Otfried Wagenbreth
c. 1975

Description

Findling transported during the last ice age on a block grey granodiorite from Oberlausitz.
On the front is a metal plaque with a map of the German Democratic Republic on with the southern border of the glaciers during the Quaternary - the so-called 'Feuersteinlinie' - is represented: "südgrenze des skandinavischen inlandeises im quartär" On the initiative of the geologist Otfried Wagenbreth in the GDR during around 1975 such monuments were erected on 13 locations along this border: Wernigerode, Blankenburg, Friedrichsbrunn, Stolberg, Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar, Jena-Lobeda, Weida, Zwickau, Chemnitz, Bad Schandau und Oybin.

Signature

Monogram GN

Sculptor

Otfried Wagenbreth (Zeitz 1927 - Bad Kreuznach 2017), German geologist (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Gitta Günther et al. (ed.), Weimar: Lexikon zur Stadtgeschichte (Weimar 1998), p. 104, sub 'Eiszeitstein' (describing the monument in Weimar).
Wikipedia, Feuersteinlinie.

Locatie (N 50°56'35" - E 10°42'17") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: deth109; Photograph: 11 October 2018
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