The best running trails around Tornower Lake

At the southern tip of Lake Briesensee, the landscape almost looks like a moor. Very original, wild and beautiful.

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Beautiful lake behind Lake Tornow. Beautiful meandering paths through the forest. Highly recommended for photography and also for relaxation

The Tornower See is near Tornow, a little south of Teupitz. There is a nature trail. Very nice paths along the bank and in the forest. There are benches and rest areas.

Within the "Briesensee and Klingeberg" nature reserve established in 2002, the slopes at the source around the Klingespring and the moors and swamp forests were removed from forest management. On the slopes, semi-natural mixed pine forests with their stocks of ferns and wintergreens should be able to develop undisturbed. The protection also applies to the almost 300-year-old pine trees that occur naturally here, as well as the undisturbed moorland development in the alder quarries, moorland copses, and bank and silting-up areas. Within the 79 hectare nature reserve, 10 hectares are secured as wilderness areas. Source https://www.natur-brandenburg.de/themen/sehenswertes/dauerwald-am-briesensee-und-klingespring/

A nature trail with information boards leads along the banks of Lake Tornow through a “primeval forest”. The path runs along the lake through rarely found, natural mixed pine forests. Naturally grown pine trees over 200 years old with impressive growth forms and dimensions stretch their crowns over the southern shore of Lake Tornow. They are among the oldest pines in the Mark Brandenburg. It is thanks to careful foresters and botanists that these native pines were preserved. Nowadays they are part of the “Briesensee and Klingeberg” nature reserve. In a scientific sense, the trees are so-called “autochthonous” pines: settled in the region and grown without human influence. This means that the Scots pine (Pinussylvestris) is characterized by characteristics and a specific adaptation to the location. Pine trees also naturally rejuvenate here. As a representative of conifers, the common pine is very variable in its growth form. Depending on the location, it can be 15 to 40 meters high and up to 500 years old. With its taproots it also reaches deep groundwater layers and can therefore survive longer dry periods. In adolescence and in the upper part of the trunk, the bark is thin and smooth and reddish in color. As it ages, the bark becomes grey-brown, deeply cracked and coarsely flaky.

The 1.5 km long nature trail along Lake Tornow crosses the "Briesensee-Klingeberg" nature reserve and the southern tip of the "Mühlenfiß-Sägebach" nature reserve near Hohe Mühle.

The Klingespring spring is located on a slope opposite the southern bank of Lake Tornow. It appears on a map from the Staakow Forestry Office in 1936 and is therefore considered one of the oldest natural monuments in the region. The name goes back to the Upper German word blade for gorge and, in connection with the English word spring for source, means something like gorge source. It is a seepage spring in which the rainwater flows through sandy, water-permeable material above the spring, seeps into the slope and comes back to the surface at a water-retaining layer. At an earlier time there was said to have been a carillon at this point that was powered by the escaping water. The spring was created during the last ice age around 10,000 years ago. The swamp forget-me-not, fontinalis, real watercress and stream bunge thrive in the source area, which indicates a special quality of the water. As the water escapes, sand is removed, which is deposited as an alluvial fan in Lake Tornow. The wintergreen spotted fern grows above the slope. The source's protection goes back to the botanist Adolf Strauss (1904–1986), in whose honor NABU Dahmeland erected a memorial stone on a hiking trail that connects Lake Tornow with Lake Briesen. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briesensee_und_Klingeberg