To start with, you cycle through the Lower Lusatian Ridge Nature Park, where you will find the historic town of Fürstlich Drehna with its moated castle. Meanwhile, the nature park itself enables visitors to experience a landscape transformation: after decades of lignite mining, new lakes have formed.
Length: 69 kilometres
Start: Calau
Finish: Vetschau
Logo/route sign: red devil with bicycle
Arrival: Take the S7 from Berlin central station to Ostkreuz. From here take the RB24 (Senftenberg) to Calau (approximately 1.5 hours).
Departure: From Vetschau take the RE2 (Wismar) to Berlin central station (approximately 1 hour).
Route: Calau, Säritz, Klein Mehßow, Groß Mehßow, Fürstlich Drehna, Schlabendorf, Egsdorf, Hindenberg, Groß Beuchow, Klein Beuchow, Lübbenau, Boblitz, Raddusch, Vetschau
Points of interest/background information:
- Calau: Local history museum
- Fürstlich Drehna: Moated castle with landscape park at the former open-cast mine, Lower Lusatian Ridge Nature Park information centre
- Lübbenau: Spreewald Biosphere Reserve information centre
- Raddusch: Slawenburg
- Vetschau: Wendish-German twin church, palace, white stork centre
- Fürstlich-Drehna: Moated castle with landscape park at the former open-cast mine, nature park information centre at Gärtnereihaus
- Prince Pueckler Cycle Path
- Historic Town Centre Cycle Routes – Route 6
- Chain of pearls between town and country
- Lübbenau Stork Tour
- Gherkin Cycle Path
- Enjoy the taste of the Spreewald on the Lübbenau Gherkin Tour
mostly asphalted cycle paths and cycle roads, some sections also on side roads, unpaved paths or paved roads, some root break-ups, few gradients
Maps/Literature:
- Upper Spreewald-Lausitz district, 1:50,000, Sachsen Kartographie GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86843-058-5
- Lusatian Lakeland, 1:50,000, Sachsen Kartographie GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86843-021-9
- Niederlausitz/Lausitzer Seenland, 1:75,000, ADFC regional map, BVA Verlag, ISBN 978-3-87073-783-2
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