A network of quiet paths
From Kyritz to Neustadt - On the Dosse River
17 km Hiking Time: 4:18 h
Start: Station Kyritz
Return: Station Neustadt (Dosse)
„… all lay in wilderness, in its primeval state — willow clumps, alders, and other brushwood covering most of the lowland, with only here and there a patch rising above the water, now serving as meadow or pasture.”*
Through the narrow streets of Kyritz, where timbered façades and old thresholds speak of earlier times, your walk begins.
A road to the lake leads you out toward the quiet Lake Klempowsee; its lakeside path stretches far to the south, and only at the far end, by the boathouses, does the lakeside romance come to a close.
Across the Dosse River, you reach Wusterhausen, where old timber-framed houses greet you again.
But behind the simple Chapel of St. Stephanus, a solemn stillness settles in: your path follows the Dosse — nothing but water, meadows, sky, and you.
+ Beautiful resting spots after 5.23 / 5.91 / 7.69 km.
+ Places to stop for food after 9.33 km at the Boathouse and after 9.86 km at Trattoria Casa Nostra.
+ Bakery and more restaurants on the market square in Wusterhausen after 11.4 km.
+ Final 1.5 km along the busy street to the station.
* Fontane, Theodor: Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg. Die Grafschaft Ruppin. Berlin 1862, S. 233 f.
(Kapitel „An Rhin und Dosse“)
English translation (own rendering)
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From Marquardt to Potsdam (Sanssouci)
17,1 km Hiking Time: 4:22 h
Start: Station Potsdam, Marquardt
Return: Station Potsdam, Sanssouci
At Marquardt Castle, a whispering park keeps more secrets than it reveals.
Long ago, in the shadow of the Enlightenment, people sought the supernatural — but even the Blue Grotto, where spirits were once conjured, has long since vanished.*
After a stroll through the park, you follow the Sacrow–Paretz Canal, and on the far side, by Lake Schlänitzsee, the view opens wide.
Wublitz and Lake Großer Zernsee follow, always on your right.
Along the way lies Grube, a picture-book village with its own church and lake, as if it had simply stayed behind in time.
Beyond the Golm meadows, you climb the Reiherberg and look back over your walk.
A royal avenue of lime trees carries you onward to the Triumphal Arch of the New Palace — and the present greets you again, soon enough, at the station.
The View from Reiherberg near Golm
+ Varied landscape with wide, open views.
+ Swimming spots after 1.4 km, 4 km, and 10.1 km.
+ Resting places after 9.2 km (bench after the Wublitz Bridge), after 10.4 km by the side canal, and after 12.3 km on the Reiherberg.
+ Refreshments available at the end in the beer garden by the station.
– About two-thirds of the hike runs along a cycle path.
*
In 1795, General Hans Rudolf von Bischoffwerder acquired the Marquardt estate.
Under his direction, the park was redesigned in the English landscape style, and he had the famous “Blue Grotto” built — a place for spiritual séances, conceived as a counter-movement to the Age of Enlightenment.
It was said that contacts were made there with historical figures such as the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the philosopher Leibniz.
Fontane later discovered the grotto’s double walls, from which music and voices seemed to emerge — as if from the beyond.
From Müncheberg to Buckow - Märkische Schweiz
17,7 km Hiking Time: 4:38 h
Start: Station Münchehofe Return: Bus Stop Buckow, Markt
Through the idyllic village of Dahmsdorf, your path leads to a panoramic view over Lake Kleiner Klobichsee.
A trail descends, touches Lake Großer Klobichsee, then climbs again until you reach Münchehofe.
In the Stobber Valley, the mood shifts — a shady riverside forest accompanies you until Lake Tornowsee mirrors the world around it.
From there, the narrow Stobber River winds alongside your path, until the first hill of Buckow rises ahead.
Through the castle park leads your final step, and you arrive at Buckow’s market square with a light heart.
+ Wonderful swimming spot at Lake Großer Klobichsee after 5 km.
+ Places to stop for food after 13.2 km at the Pritzhagener Mühle, and again at the end of the tour in Buckow.
+ Near the bus stop, a small path leads to benches by Lake Buckowsee — perfect for your waiting time.
From Niederfinow to Chorin - The Plagefenn Moor
17,8 km Hiking Time: 4:40 h
Start: Station: Niederfinow Return: Station Chorin
The Plagefenn Moor
Along the Finow Canal, the path takes you in.
To the right lies the wide, silent landscape of the Oderbruch, to the left rise the ship lifts — mighty witnesses of the industrial age.
Meadows, sky, distant horizons — your steps grow calm, as if the canal were walking with you, not you with it.
Near Liepe, the path climbs into the Plagefenn Moor — a quiet, ancient, untouched world that surrounds you like its own cosmos.
A long forest path leads you deeper into the past, until, beyond the Amtssee, the monastery ruins rise — now only a silent witness of bygone devotion.
Chorin Monastery was founded in 1273 and fell into ruin after its dissolution in 1542.
Only the romantic gaze of the 19th century rediscovered its charm and sought to preserve the walls — not to complete them.
Fontane praised this rescue but lamented that, with the restoration, the wild poetry was lost:
one is, he wrote, “tempted to wish back the old days of desolation, when in the high choir stood the tenant’s goat stalls, and the sheep gnawed the grass from the gravestones of the Ascanier princes.”*
+ Swimming spot after 14.7 km at Lake Amtssee.
+ Varied tour with plenty of nature.
+ Small improvised resting spot on tree trunks — marked as a small triangle at 8.58 km in the navigation
* Fontane, Theodor. (1873): Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg. Dritter Teil: Das Havelland. Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz. Kapitel „Kloster Chorin, wie es ist“.
English translation (own rendering)
From Eberswalde to Falckenberg - Along the Finow Canal
18 km Hiking Time: 4:40 h
Start: Station Eberswalde Return: Station Falkenberg (Mark)
“Along the Finow Canal — this remarkable and venerable waterway — lie the oldest sites of Brandenburg’s industry.
Here, iron hammers were already at work when Frederick the Great was still a child.” *
He was referring to the Eisenspalterei Finow near Eberswalde — though little of its former glory remains today.
The old towpath along the Finow Canal grows quieter, greener, and lonelier with every step.
By the Ragöse Lock, nature has taken command. Before you opens the Eberswalde glacial valley — wide fields, endless sky — a place where you will feel completely at peace.
Following the Mühlenfließ Trail, you climb toward Hohenfinow; here, a view crowns the walk: the Oderbruch, a vast panorama of waterways, fields, and open sky, lies at your feet.
Pause a moment, then descend — the Oder Valley receives you, until your path comes to rest at Falkenberg Station.
+ Very varied tour with wide, open views.