Circular trail around Jamlitz – Memorial Tour

The Memorial Tour takes in ​Jamlitz and its surrounding area and is one of the most beautiful eight circular hiking trails around Lieberose. But in addition to the beautiful landscape, this tour also touches on a dark chapter in history: the route leads through the former secondary facility of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Dealing with this period of history there is an open-air exhibition as a memorial to the victims.

This tour also including the neighbouring village of Jamlitz. The trail centres on the former grounds of a secondary camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp which was built in 1943/44. The prisoners had to build the facilities the Kurmark SS military training area under the motto “Extermination through hard labour”. These barracks were used as a concentration camp, an SS penal camp, a refugee camp and then an internment camp. There is now an open-air exhibition at this site.
A little off the way is the forest cemetery that belonged to the internment camp, as well as the former station building, where prisoners once arrived on the Frankfurt/Oder-Cottbus line. There is a scenic path to Blasdorf along the former Kleinbahndamm to the north of Jamlitz.

Length: 8 kilometres, approximately 1 hour

Start/finish:                                         Jamlitz village square

Logo:   cross

Arrival/departure on public transport at Jamlitz Gasthaus: Bus 517 (Lieberose), continue on bus 21 (Cottbus)Bus 402 (Beeskow)Bus 517 (Schenkendöbern)
Route:     Jamlitz village square – open-air Museum – glassworks – Blasdorf – Fischerhaus – Jamlitz

Sights:ByhletalOpen-air exhibition – documentation site Jamlitz railway station building – Justus Delbrück Haus
Possible combinations: The most beautiful circular trails near LieberoseGuided tour of Jamlitz railway station
Trail conditions:   varied

Maps/literature at Lieberose tourist information centre (Schlosshof 3a):

"Die schönsten Rundwanderwege um Lieberose" 1:20.000, Tourismus-AG, Auflage 1 (2017)