Müritz-Elde Waterway – Old Elde loop from Eldena

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Germany

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Ludwigslust-Parchim

Eldena

Müritz-Elde Waterway – Old Elde loop from Eldena

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Müritz-Elde Waterway – Old Elde loop from Eldena

01:57

28.9km

50m

Cycling

Easy bike ride. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 8, 2026

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Includes a movable bridge

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After 15.5 km for 33 m

Waypoints

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Bus stop

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6.18 km

Witch's House

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Beautiful fairytale

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6.69 km

Eldena Lock

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The Eldeschleuse is a nice place for children and techies to linger. (... though, actually, almost all people find it interesting to watch boats in a lock while going up and down)
Definitely a tip.

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6.75 km

Eldena Lock (Müritz-Elde Waterway)

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6.86 km

Müritz-Elde Waterway

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And again along the water on a good sandy path.

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6.89 km

Elde Cycle and Hiking Path

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Beautiful bike and hiking trail along the Elde. Everywhere on the shore you will find places to relax and rest. And if you want, just jump into cool water and swim a round from shore to shore.

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14.4 km

Grabow Town Hall

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The city hall is probably the highlight of the colorful city on the Elde. It was built in 1727.

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14.4 km

The town of Grabow is located on the Elde in the southwest of Mecklenburg about 40 km southeast of the state capital Schwerin. The city center is located about seven kilometers southeast of the city of Ludwigslust and about seven kilometers northwest of the state border with Brandenburg.

It is worth visiting the old town. A lot has already been restored, but there is still a lot to do - but that too has its charm and is worth seeing.

The area around the city is very wooded, around 2,500 hectares of the urban area consist of forest.
The Old Polish name contains the noun grab, which means beech or hornbeam. The name occurs more frequently in Mecklenburg. It was only slightly changed as Grabowe (1186, 1252, 1275) and Grabow (1189, 1298).

After the political change, the historic town center of the half-timbered town with the town hall (1997/98) was fundamentally renovated as part of urban development funding. In 1995, inter alia the harbor wall, until 1998 the town hall was renovated. In 1999 a pedestrian bridge was handed over over the Müritz-Elde-Wasserstraße, and in 2001 the new Rehberger Bridge was built as a lift bridge. Until 2010, the western old town could be built on, partly on a former factory site.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grabow_(Elde)

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15.0 km

Old Elde

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"To be distinguished
- the Elder Elde, as the Elde and Elde, continuing under the branch of navigation at Eldena, into the Elde side canal
- The numerous, in addition to the above Eldena daugeregelten and straightened Elde surviving, often winding parts of the original river (backwater), which are also often called Old Elder.
The Eldera coming and today at the Brandenburg Seedorf in Löcknitz ending Old Elde was renatured in 2005 and 2006 in a transnational (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg) project.

A longer contiguous section of an old waterway can be found north of the waterway east of Lübz near Kuppentin. It is designated as a nature reserve because of the presence of rare animal and plant species and the presence of almost natural water structures. Between Lübz and Parchim the Elder Elde is preserved on several sections partly right, partly left of the waterway. Between the confluence of the Störkanals and Neustadt-Glewe is the Altlauf, there on newer maps sometimes only referred to as Elde, right of the waterway. In Grabow, a piece of Alte Elde flows through the city center as before, and on to Güritz to the left of the waterway. "- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elde#Alte_Elde

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