The best MTB trails around Wardow

beautiful hiking trail between Fresendorf and Beselin, here a bridge over the Kösterbeck

Easily accessible by mountain bike

St. Nikolai was first mentioned in 1257, but is certainly a little older. It was the heart of the second of the four Rostock settlements. The church was consecrated in its current form in 1312. It was badly damaged in the Second World War. In a long-term reconstruction, a changed usage concept was implemented: The church space is used for church services and events, there are apartments in the roof, and the tower was made usable for church administration tasks.

The city harbor, for many Rostock residents and visitors the actual center of the Hanseatic city, can look back on a long history. The wide waterfront promenade with sailing harbor and museum harbor, which is lined with numerous restaurants, clubs, shops and theater venues, invites you to stroll and linger all year round. The city harbor was built almost 800 years ago, almost at the same time as the Hanseatic city itself. The first harbor basin was built in the area of the historic warehouses. With the expansion of Rostock in a westerly direction, with the emergence of the districts in Mittelstadt and Neustadt, the Rostock harbor developed further and further from around the middle of the 13th century to the point of becoming a fishing bastion. After 1989, the residents of the Hanseatic city rediscovered the city harbor. From 1991 the old port facilities were removed. Today, with the coal port, the Haedge peninsula, various fish halls and storage buildings, you can mainly see the port development of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Rostock's city harbor. The former medieval harbor buildings have largely been built over or removed. Numerous companies are now based around the old storage facilities. Among them is the shipping company AIDA Cruises, which has now developed into one of the largest employers in the Hanseatic city. https://www.meck-pomm-lese.de/gehenswuerdigkeiten/oertlichkeiten/der-rostocker-stadthafen/

The Nikolaikirche Rostock is not only a meeting place for church, art and culture, it also offers unique living and working spaces. Construction began in 1230, heavily damaged in 1942, the nave and tower burned down, the organ and the baroque pulpit fell victim to the flames. In 1976 the tower, the church roof and the nave were rebuilt and apartments were built in the roof, today it is an event venue (concerts, markets, exhibitions). The organ comes from the Philippus Church in Rummelsberg/Bavaria. It was ceremoniously inaugurated in Rostock in April 2002. Directly below the choir is the Schwibbogen, a narrow and low roadway. Above the Schwibbogen you can see a restored picture of St. Nicholas in front of the silhouette of Rostock. https://www.auf-nach-mv.de/reiseziele/a-nikolaikirche-rostock-kirchliches-zentrum

Definitely visit, the 10 euros for the tour are well spent.

Not far from Kösterbeck is the idyllic Kösterbecker See in Rostock Switzerland. There are great cycling and hiking trails in this area.

Interesting icebreaker, moored directly at the harbor and not to be missed. On the information board next to it you can find out everything about where and until when he did his work. In the current climate, such ships are probably no longer needed in Germany.