River landscape, garden art and historic places

Before starting your journey, we recommend visiting the Mühlberg 1547 Museum to learn about the eventful history of the Elbe city. Here you will also find out why Emperor Charles V ended up in Mühlberg and how his army defeated the troops of the Schmalkaldic League in the Battle of Mühlberg on April 24, 1547.
After visiting the former Cistercian nunnery, you can start at Neustädter Markt with the Mühlberg Town Hall and head towards the port along the Elbe Cycle Path to Martinskirchen. On historic cobblestone streets, you will pass through the "Village of Monuments" until you reach the venerable Baroque castle Martinskirchen - with its high mansard roof, the former hunting and pleasure palace dominates the village landscape. Built from 1751 to 1756, it is one of the significant baroque castle complexes in Brandenburg. Particularly impressive is its grand marble hall with a unique ceiling painting.

Following the Elbe Cycle Path to Stehla and then on historic cobblestones to Koßdorf, you will travel on quiet country roads to Saxdorf with its beautiful parish garden. Here, you can enjoy the symbiosis of music, painting, nature, and true garden art. While collections of bamboos, numerous old rose varieties, and rare flower species form the botanical highlights of the garden, the parish garden, church, and a music pavilion on the parish courtyard have been attracting numerous garden and music enthusiasts for over thirty years. Through fields and forests, you will continue on developed cycle paths to Kosilenzien. East of the village lies the Kosilenzier Wall, surrounded by fields and meadows in the lowland.

In the further course of the route, you will reach the "Mühlberg Camp". Here, many display boards explain the history of the former prisoner-of-war camp Stalag IVB and the former Special Camp No. 1. As the last stop before returning to Mühlberg on quiet country roads, you can look forward to a great artistic project in Altenau: an old parish courtyard with workshops, studio, and gallery of the artist couple Paul Böckelmann and E.R.N.A.