The best MTB trails around Putzarer Lake

Very nice resting area in Anklam, which invites you to linger.

Beautiful historic buildings in the town

With good equipment (binoculars and telephoto lens) you can make great observations and take great pictures here.

Looks great...but the thorns are really sharp. You have to be really careful when taking close-ups.

During the heaviest bombing raid on Anklam on October 9, 1943, the window panes of St. Nicholas' Church were destroyed by pressure waves and splinters from the bombs hitting the area, and the copper covering of the tower was significantly damaged[1]. However, the church itself was not hit. The church was not destroyed until April 29, 1945 by German shelling from the village of Ziethen, north of Anklam[2] on the town, which was already occupied by the Red Army. The spire fell into the nave. Part of the spire was found in 2022 during construction work on a sidewalk in front of the church. The tower ball, which traditionally also contained contemporary historical records, remains missing, however.[3] The church partially burned down, only the stump of the tower and the surrounding walls with free pillars and transverse arches remained standing. After the war, the ruins were made provisionally secure. Only the south extension with the two chapels, the south entrance and the sacristy were roofed over again and used temporarily by the parish, while the tower was made temporarily accessible and provided with a small spire so that the tower could be used as a platform for radio antennas. The nave remained exposed to the elements for over 50 years. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaikirche_(Anklam)

Construction began around 1280 and was completed by the end of the 14th century. The church was first mentioned in documents in 1300. It is named after Nicholas of Myra, who is considered the patron saint of sailors. St. Nicholas' Church was finally completed around 1500 with the installation of the choir stalls. In contrast to St. Mary's Church with its Romanesque origins, St. Nicholas' Church is a purely Gothic building, although a previous church had already been built in 1180. Until it was destroyed, the church was considered a landmark of Anklam and was a pilot's mark that was visible from afar. St. Nicholas' Church around 1972 with a secure, walkable tower Condition of the ruins in the 1970s The important brick Gothic building is a three-aisled hall church with a four-story tower and sacristy. The nave was covered with a large gable roof until 1945. The tower has always had a high Gothic spire over 100 metres high, which was damaged and restored several times by lightning strikes and storms. Together with St. Mary's Church, which received a similar spire at the end of the 19th century, both churches formed the unmistakable townscape of Anklam with their "twin towers". The spire of St. Nicholas had a special feature: its spire showed a clearly visible twist. It was popularly said that the devil himself had twisted the spire. On June 25, 1848, the aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal was baptized in St. Nicholas Church, whose birthplace was in the immediate vicinity of the church. The interior was richly decorated with valuable furnishings. Despite being stored away during the Second World War, some parts are still missing today. Others, such as the magnificent candlesticks, the apostle bell and parts of the choir stalls, are now in Anklam's St. Mary's Church and in the Stralsund Cultural History Museum. Medieval frescoes on the side walls and pillars have only been preserved in fragments. Qhttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathaus_Anklam

The Hanseatic and Lilienthal town of Anklam with 12,331 inhabitants (2019) was first mentioned in 1243 as an oppidum (settlement) and in 1264 as a civitas (town). Around 1400, a two-storey 40 × 14 meter Gothic town hall was built in the middle of Anklam's market square with the representative pillar gables. The striking large roof turret dates from 1549. The facades were remodeled in the Renaissance style. In 1842, the building was demolished along with the rest of the market buildings without any plans for a new building. The administration moved into the extended and converted former garrison hospital in Brüderstraße (later the Zur Heimat hostel). In 1876, the town hall moved to the Peene in the converted main customs office (previously Haus Buschick). The building, which was extended in 1904 with a tower extension, was destroyed by bombs in 1945.[2] After the town hall was destroyed, the administration was temporarily housed in the Käthe Kollwitz School until the new building was built. The three-storey building on the market was built in 1950/52 in a functionally representative form as an eleven-axis plastered building. Stylistically, the town hall can be classified between the traditional pre-war design language and a moderate socialist classicism. The representative natural stone entrance aligned with the central axis of the market with the crowning city coat of arms and the window frames are the dominant decorative elements, along with the side arcades with pillars made of rusticated masonry. After 1991, the gently sloping hipped roof was given a steel ridge turret with a tower clock. The original building concept probably envisaged an extension of the house over the entire north side of the market square. The old building structure on the northeast corner of the market seems to have prevented further expansion of the town hall. This is probably also the reason for the decentralized arrangement of the entrance in the facade and the arcade that was originally only present in the west. The eastern arcade was only added after 1991. The city council meets in the town hall at Am Markt 3 and the mayor and department 2 with financial management have their headquarters. Other parts of the city administration are located in town hall II at Burgstrasse 15 and at Frauenstrasse 12. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathaus_Anklam

The Garrison Church or Holy Spirit Church is, alongside the two large town churches, the third and smallest church building in the Anklam town center in Western Pomerania. The Holy Spirit Church was first mentioned in 1272. In the style of the time, it was a brick Gothic building, but burned down in 1376. After being rebuilt, the brick building was destroyed again by fire in 1659. The church was rebuilt in the Baroque style for the Prussian garrison in 1738 and served as the garrison church from then on. During the French occupation from 1806 to 1808, it was used as a field bakery. From 1854 onwards, the building no longer served any ecclesiastical purposes and was converted to residential purposes. In the Second World War, the Garrison Church was badly damaged and after the war it was rebuilt with a slightly modified spire and prepared as a residential building for senior citizens until 1955. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Garrison Church was restored. It is located together with the Heilig-Geist-Stift (today the city administration/town hall II) near the Peene in the city center. In the inner courtyard of the two buildings there was a cemetery for inmates who had no money for a burial. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecheriner_Br%C3%BCcke