diff --git a/dune/gfe/rotation.hh b/dune/gfe/rotation.hh
index 28077301321ab2de666e56c19a32b9aabc834bfe..47c2df5addd3dff29c97cff02671a686686d9682 100644
--- a/dune/gfe/rotation.hh
+++ b/dune/gfe/rotation.hh
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ public:
     /** \brief Dimension of the manifold formed by the 3d rotations */
     static const int dim = 3;
     
+    /** \brief Coordinates are embedded into a four-dimension Euclidean space */
+    static const int embeddedDim = 4;
+    
     /** \brief Member of the corresponding Lie algebra.  This really is a skew-symmetric matrix */
     typedef Dune::FieldVector<T,3> TangentVector;
 
diff --git a/dune/gfe/unitvector.hh b/dune/gfe/unitvector.hh
index 0d748d05445af2d75c1928c67618af6c0d0b238d..c11de438ff988d41292aafb1af8b054c1c0b879d 100644
--- a/dune/gfe/unitvector.hh
+++ b/dune/gfe/unitvector.hh
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ public:
     /** \brief Dimension of the manifold formed by unit vectors */
     static const int dim = N-1;
 
+    /** \brief Dimension of the Euclidean space the manifold is embedded in */
+    static const int embeddedDim = N;
+
     typedef Dune::FieldVector<double,N-1> TangentVector;
 
     typedef Dune::FieldVector<double,N> EmbeddedTangentVector;