Alter Schwede, Kroge, Glacial erratic in Kroge, Lohne, Germany

The Alter Schwede is a granite-gneiss glacial erratic measuring 2.50 metres in width and height and 3.60 metres in length, weighing 30 tonnes. It was recovered in March 2016 from a field near the B214 road in Kroge-Ehrendorf and set up in front of the primary school in Kroge, where it now stands as one of the largest boulders in northwestern Lower Saxony.

The granite gneiss boulder was lifted from a field near Bundesstraße 214 in Kroge-Ehrendorf in March 2016. It may have been carried from Scandinavia by ice-age glaciers 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. In a ceremony on 30 May 2016 it received the official name Alter Schwede and was set up in front of the Kroge primary school.

The name Alter Schwede was given officially at a ceremony on 30 May 2016, not drawn from an old legend. The granite gneiss boulder was recovered from a field near the B214 in March 2016 and set up in front of the Kroge primary school, where it now serves as a local landmark and namesake.

The erratic stands in front of the primary school in Kroge, at the junction of Kroger Dorfstraße and Schulstraße, about 1.5 km north of where it was lifted from the field near the B214 in March 2016. It can be reached on foot or by bike from Lohne; there are no facilities at the site itself.

The stone was lifted from a field near the B214 in March 2016 and set up in front of Kroge primary school; it was officially named Alter Schwede at a ceremony on 30 May 2016. The Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) classes it as a protected natural monument.