Flint field

[1] Such deposits may be found in Aachen-Lousberg, Kleinkems, Schernfeld, Osterberg bei Pfünz, Baiersdorf, Abensberg-Arnhofen and Lengfeld as well as the German island of Rügen.

The flint fields on Germany's biggest island, Rügen, between Mukran and Prora in the northern part of the heath of Schmale Heide are part of the Stone Fields in the Schmale Heath and Extension nature reserve.

During a series of storm floods, 3,500 to 4,000 years ago, the stones, from the Cretaceous deposits on the Jasmund peninsula which had been broken up by the sea, were piled up here.

By the middle of the 19th century and, for the last time in the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, attempts were made to protect the 14 open flint embankments from becoming overgrown, using perimeter fencing in places and introducing wildlife.

The route to the southern end of the flint fields is a well maintained and picturesque woodland path which branches off (54°27′02″N 13°33′34″E / 54.45056°N 13.55944°E / 54.45056; 13.55944 (Zufahrt Feuersteinfelder)) the old B 196a federal road immediately north of the caravan park (former traffic testing area).