Gegensteine
The Gegensteine (German: [ˈɡeːɡənˌʃtaɪ̯nə]; literally "Counter-Stones" or "Opposing Stones") are two striking, free-standing rock pinnacles rising dramatically from the gentle, undulating landscape of the northern Harz foreland, approximately two kilometres north of the historic town of Ballenstedt in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. These majestic sandstone crags — the Großer Gegenstein ("Great Counter-Stone") and the Kleiner Gegenstein ("Little Counter-Stone") — stand as silent sentinels at the easternmost extremity of the legendary Teufelsmauer ("Devil's Wall"), a discontinuous 20-kilometre chain of rugged sandstone outcrops stretching northwest to Blankenburg.