City walk: along the Oder

The tour begins at the island of Ziegenwerder. Here the Oder has already covered 582.8 kilometers since the Opava estuary. The island of Ziegenwerder lies between the main stream and the Old Oder. The green lung of Frankfurt got the europagarten in 2003 for the 750th birthday of the city. Together with this facility, the promenade on the banks of the Frankfurt Oder was created, which invites you to stroll. This leads from Ziegenwerder to the Winterhafen and includes an open-air exhibition about the Oder. Opposite the Ziegenwerder is the cafeteria of the European University Viadrina. The connection between the Oder and the Viadrina is in the name, because Viadrina means "the one located on the Oder".
The tour takes you to Bischofstraße. Here you have the best and most mysterious view of the Oder. On the opposite side you can see the undeveloped alluvial land of Slubice. That or the general fact that the Oder flows through Frankfurt and Slubice through a largely open urban landscape and is not walled in, makes this view a true landscape painting.
From the Polish side, north of the city bridge from ul. Nadodrzanska, you have the best view of the banks of the Oder and the skyline of Frankfurt.
Back in Frankfurt, the first wooden bridges crossed the Oder south of the city bridge. There where the Brückentorstraße meets the Oder. If you follow Brückentorstraße in the direction of the Oder and Stadtbrücke, you will come to its narrowest point, which once gave the city its name: the ford over the Oder.

Length: approx. 8 km, duration: approx. 2 hours pure walking time

Literature:City guide Frankfurt (Oder) / Slubice (2021), publisher: ScottyScout, editor: K. Hinrichsen / M. Nesselrodt