Top 20 Natural Monuments around Rangsdorf

From the 84-meter-high Glienick vineyard, there are several viewpoints offering distant vistas. At the top, there is a picnic table and benches, and as of December 2025, some chairs will also be available.

With good visibility, you can see the airport on one side and the TV tower on the other.

it drives or runs well and you have pure nature

At the end of the 19th century the area became a popular tourist destination. A number of restaurants were built around the "Tiergarten", of which only "Riedels Gasthof" still exists today. In the course of the prince's settlement in 1926, the forestry office in Königs Wusterhausen became Prussian state property. In 1989, a forest educational trail was laid out in the "Tiergarten" for the first time. In 1994, a forest youth group renewed the nature trail at great expense. For Brandenburg Day 2008, the nature trail was again provided with boards by the forester's office in Königs Wusterhausen. According to the forest function mapping of the state of Brandenburg, the area is designated as a recreational forest.

South of the Staabe and east of the Krimnicksee, the soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I, who often stayed at his nearby Wusterhausen hunting lodge, had a zoo laid out in 1725 in a 900-hectare forest area for hunting and to protect the wild stocks. The area is now a recreation area with up to 270-year-old oak trees and has been a nature reserve since 1995 under the name Tiergarten. The Neue Mühle hiking trail leads from Königs Wusterhausen via the castle park and the Neue Mühle lock through the zoo and back to Königs Wusterhausen.

Genshagen Castle is a mansion built between 1878 and 1880 in the former Gutsdorf Genshagen of the same name, a district of Ludwigsfelde in the Brandenburg district of Teltow-Fläming. It is southwest of Berlin. Genshagen was first mentioned in 1289 and was divided before the 15th century. The larger part came into the possession of the von Otterstedt family, a significantly smaller part to the von Zicker family. Before 1655 the noble von Hake family acquired Otterstedt's share. The Zicker share came in 1677 to Friedrich August von Thümen. In 1700, a manor house was built in the former Otterstedt share, when Lewin Friedrich von Hake married Maria Dorothea, née Schaefferin. Wilhelm von Hake kept the estate throughout the wars of liberation. From 1791 to 1819 the Genshagener manor house served as the district office of the district of Teltow.[1] His son, Ludwig von Hake, sold it in 1838 for 130,000 Reichstaler to the royal Prussian Privy Councilor Karl Ferdinand Schulz. He commissioned Anton Gebauer with the administration for many decades. In September 1854, father Karl Ferdinand[3] left the manor house, which now belonged to the debt-free estate, to his daughter Friederike Pauline von Eberstein as a wedding gift on the occasion of her marriage to Max Freiherr von Ebenstein, a second lieutenant in the Emperor Franz Grenadier Regiment. On her behalf, a new manor house was built between 1878 and 1880 under the direction of the Berlin building inspector Lindemann, which after the conversion in the 1910s was primarily referred to as a palace. A one-storey, thirteen-axle rendered building in the Neo-Renaissance style was built on a high base with bossage. In their explanations in Die Guts- und Herrenhäuser im Landkreis Teltow-Fläming, Hiltrud and Carsten Preuss describe a symmetrical façade structure with “decorative façade decoration”. In the middle on the courtyard side was a flight of steps that stretched three axes wide. Visitors entered a portico that bore a triangular gable with the von Eberstein coat of arms. On the park side, another flight of steps led into the park. In the mansard roof there were ten dormer windows on the courtyard side, which were arranged above the window axes on the ground floor. After the von Eberstein family moved in, the manager used the old manor house as a residence and manager's house. In 1888 a distillery was built. (Source Wikipedia)

There are several ways to enter the Tiergarten sculpture path near Königs Wusterhausen, including here at the Neue Mühle. There is also a small parking lot as well as this orientation board with all ten locations of the wooden sculptures along the circular route.

The farmer Berthold is the Till Eulenspiegel of the area. On the information board you can read how he pulled his head out of the noose.