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<< Our Photo Pages >> Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald - Rock Outcrop in Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia

Submitted by Harald_Platta on Monday, 25 January 2016  Page Views: 1014

Natural PlacesSite Name: Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald Alternative Name: von Eichendorff Felsen
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 5.161 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Rock Outcrop
Nearest Town: Blankenheim
Latitude: 50.403069N  Longitude: 6.615861E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald
Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald submitted by Janek : Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald Pic from Nov 2023 (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Düwelsteen ("Devil`s Stone") is a rock outcrop in Ripsdorfer Wald forest in Blankenheim (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany).

The rock consists of red sand stone. The name Düwelsteen ("Devil`s Stone") may indicate that it might have been used as a pagan sanctuary, because these places were often associated with the devil in christian times.

The Düwelsteen is also called von Eichendorff rock because the third verse from his poem Abschied were chiseled into the stone in the early 20th century.

References:
[01] Kreis Euskirchen: Landschaftsplan Blankenheim (2007).
[02] Stadt Blankenheim: Liste der Naturdenkmale in Blankenheim (2007).
[03] Baales, P.: Düvelssteen und Düvelskall. In: Blankeneimerdorf [Webpage] (2011).

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Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald
Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald submitted by Creative Commons : The Düwelsteen ("Devil`s Stone") is a rock outcrop in Ripsdorfer Wald forest in Blankenheim (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). By BalthasarCasimirundMyrrhe (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons (Vote or comment on this photo)

Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald
Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald submitted by Janek : Düwelsteen Ripsdorfer Wald Pic from Nov 2023 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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