Pulling a boulder comes from an old story. We are writing the year 1661: Jonkheer Everard Meyster, also known as the foolish squire, made a bet with his friends, according to the folk tale, that he could get the Amersfoorters so mad that they would pull a boulder from the Waelberch to the city. And so it happened.
Out of shame, or maybe just because the thing was in the way, that boulder was buried in 1672 at the Varkensmarkt. More than 200 years later, in 1903, it was decided to excavate it again. After some wanderings through the city, the boulder was given a new and, for the time being, last pedestal on the Stadsring in 1954. And in the meantime the people of Amersfoort had renamed their city the Keistad.