Featured: Hare and Tabor T Shirts for discerning antiquarians

Hare and Tabor T Shirts for discerning antiquarians

Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe, Scarre

Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe, Scarre

Who's Online

There are currently, 546 guests and 0 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> De Gesloten Steen - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Netherlands in Utrecht

Submitted by XIII on Wednesday, 06 July 2016  Page Views: 1980

Natural PlacesSite Name: De Gesloten Steen Alternative Name: duivelssteen
Country: Netherlands
NOTE: This site is 15.823 km away from the location you searched for.

Province: Utrecht Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Utrecht
Latitude: 52.084478N  Longitude: 5.123139E
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.
3 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
0No data.
5 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
5

Internal Links:
External Links:

De Gesloten Steen
De Gesloten Steen submitted by XIII : Site in Utrecht Netherlands CC BY-SA 3.0 nl Michele Ahin (talk) - Eigen werk Dit is een afbeelding van een rijksmonument met nummer 31110 Meer afbeeldingen Geketend aan het hoekhuis van de Oudegracht 364. Het verhaal wil dat de duivel ‘s nachts met deze zwerfsteen over de straten van Utrecht knikkerde en zo bewoners door het helse lawaai hun dierbare nachtrust ontnam. Uiteindelijk... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Utrecht

The gesloten steen (locked stone) is a large erratic in downtown Utrecht. This national monument is chained to a building which is named after the stone.

The oldest reference to this boulder is from 1520. Legend has it that the devil and one of his minions would play throw and catch with the boulder and every time they dropped it, the whole neighborhood would shake. To put an end to this, the boulder was chained up.

Source and further reading (dutch): wikipedia

National monument #31110
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Flickr
Farewell party
Farewell party
Utrecht: Sint Willibrordkerk
Ontario - H0 - Maurice Kleverwal - Modeltrein Expo On TraXs 2024 - 11-55-45- 3V5A2960 - m s
IMG_3077
IMG_3073

The above images may not be of the site on this page, but were taken nearby. They are loaded from Flickr so please click on them for image credits.


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive map of the area

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 7.4km SSE 152° Het Archeologiemuseum in Houten Museum
 12.6km NNE 32° Kei van Lage Vuursche Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
 13.1km NNE 33° Grafheuvels Lage Vuursche (45252) Round Barrow(s)
 13.9km E 99° Grafheuvels Driebergen Rijsenburg (45504)* Round Barrow(s)
 14.1km NNE 33° Grafheuvel Lage Vuursche (45134) Round Barrow(s)
 15.5km E 99° Zwerfsteneneiland Modern Stone Circle etc
 15.5km NE 52° Enghenbergje* Round Barrow(s)
 15.9km ESE 106° Grafheuvel Doorn (45568) Round Barrow(s)
 16.0km NNE 12° Kei van Hilversum* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
 16.1km ENE 63° Grafheuvel Monnikenbosch (45993)* Round Barrow(s)
 16.4km ENE 76° Grafheuvels Oud Leusden Round Barrow(s)
 16.5km E 86° Grafheuvels Leusden Zuid (45629)* Round Barrow(s)
 17.8km NNE 20° Grafheuvels Laren (45642)* Round Barrow(s)
 17.9km ENE 68° Galgenberg Amersfoort (45449)* Round Barrow(s)
 17.9km NNE 20° Zeven Bergjes* Round Barrow(s)
 18.0km NNE 20° Grafheuvel Laren (45636) Round Barrow(s)
 18.0km ENE 68° Grafheuvel Amersfoort (45448) Round Barrow(s)
 18.1km ESE 102° Grafheuvels Maarn* Round Barrow(s)
 18.1km NNE 13° Grafheuvels Westerheide* Round Barrow(s)
 18.3km NNE 14° Grafheuvels Westerheide 2* Round Barrow(s)
 18.5km NNE 12° Grafheuvels Hilversum (45550) Round Barrow(s)
 18.6km NNE 15° Grafheuvel Laren (45634) Round Barrow(s)
 18.8km NNE 14° Grafheuvels Westerheide 3* Round Barrow(s)
 18.9km NNE 18° Geologisch Museum Hofland* Museum
 18.9km NNE 15° Grafheuvel Laren (45635) Round Barrow(s)
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Amersfoortse Kei

Bloedsteen >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Earthen Long Barrows, Field

Earthen Long Barrows, Field

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"De Gesloten Steen" | Login/Create an Account | 0 News and Comments
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.