The best family-friendly hikes and walks around Vetschau/Spreewald

Very tasty 😋 Highly recommended

Still very nice and tasty

This wooden bridge is on the connecting road to Lehde.

The bridges are sometimes very slippery, not so easy with a heavy E-Bike, but with help everything is doable

History The former lordly castle area is the oldest part of Lübbenau. At the park entrance stands a wrought-iron gate with a tower and a crown-adorned serpent. This indicates the last owners of the Lübbenau estate, the Counts of Lynar. The family originally came from Tuscany. The fortress builder Rochus Guerrini, Count of Lynar, was the first of his family to arrive in Germany in 1568. Elisabeth (daughter of Christian Distelmeyer, Chancellor of the Margraviate of Brandenburg), the widow of Count Johann Casimir of Lynar, purchased the Lübbenau estate in 1621. It remained in the possession of one family for more than three hundred years. A medieval moated castle stood on the site of the current building. Around 1600, it was converted into a Renaissance-style castle. The complex received its current appearance largely between 1817 and 1820 by Carl August Benjamin Siegel. The two towers at the rear of the castle were not added until 1839 by Homann. The surrounding nine-hectare park in the English landscape style was created from 1820 onwards and was laid out by H. W. and J. E. Freschke.[1] The plans go back to Peter Joseph Lenné. On October 17, 1928, the previously independent estate district "Schloss Lübbenau" was incorporated into the town of Lübbenau. Count Wilhelm zu Lynar took over the estate of Lübbenau in 1928. The count's family moved their residence to Seese, to the family estate there, in 1930. A museum was opened on May 1, 1932, partly to save on property taxes. The director of the Märkisches Museum Berlin was commissioned to establish it. The exhibition included Lynar family portraits, often created by renowned artists, prehistoric finds, polemics by Martin Luther, a collection of music and weapons, the armor of Count Johannes Siegesmund from the Thirty Years' War, and other art and everyday objects from the history of the castle. With the outbreak of World War II, the collections were relocated to Seese. The Reich Air Force established a cartographic institute in the castle and the orangery. In January 1944, a fire broke out in the right wing of the castle, destroying numerous furnishings. From 1944 onwards, the castle also served as a field hospital. Bust of Rochus, Count of Lynar Memorial plaque for Wilhelm, Count of Lynar

Typical Spreewald, very nice to look at. These strange, fluffy-looking hay buoys can be found in almost every corner of the Spreewald. The story behind the 4-meter-high giants is actually quite simple: haystacks were built by local farmers because they often didn't have enough space in their barns for the amount of feed their cows needed over the winter. A single cow would eat an entire haystack over the cold months. It's not that easy to rake a beautifully shaped haystack into shape - it takes a lot of skill. In the past, the typical circular haystacks were a valuable tradition in everyday life in the Spreewald, but today they are more of a pretty landmark of the region. (https://www.spreewald.de/blog/typisch-spreewald/ )

Beautiful ancient village. The tours are interesting and informative.

The diameter of the original Slavic castle of Raddusch was 38 m inside and 58 m outside. The castle was surrounded by a moat about 5.5 meters wide. Two tunnel gates led into the interior of the 7 meter high wall. In the castle courtyard there were 4 wooden wells, one of which was almost 14 meters deep. During the excavation, many things were found in this well, which are now displayed in the fascinating fountain display case. Building structures were found in the castle courtyard that were mainly used as granaries and warehouses.