The alluvial sand cone path - A local exploration from village history to the Ice Age

The Schwemmsandkegelweg starts at Altranft Castle - located on the western edge of the Oderbruch - and leads along defining elements of the village of Altranft and its history into geological history and back again.

Start: At the Oderbruch Museum, Altranft Castle, Am Anger 27 in 16259 Bad Freienwalde OT Altranft.
Destination: Old dike at the Freienwalder Landgraben
Length: approx. 6 km; Duration: approx. 3 hours

The Schwemmsandkegelweg offers the opportunity to immerse oneself in the natural and cultural peculiarities of the landscape around Altranft and to get to know an old hut landscape. For the 18 stations walk, a detailed description prepared by Benjamin Hulster is available.

The walk provides information about the economic and cultural history of the village of Altranft: from the manor farm to the former Bergthal sheep farm to the briquette factory that once operated in Altranft. It leads to the geological trail of rocks from the Scandinavian region, deposited by glacial glaciers at the edge of the Oderbruch thousands of years ago. The path continues past the old Bergthal sheep farm to the edge of the nature reserve "Hutelandschaft Altranft-Sonnenburg". With a bit of luck, you can also spot species like the whinchat, wheatear, and woodlark in addition to the open-country species there. Passing by Altranft station and the central corridor house on the village green, the path leads back to the castle and ends at the Freienwalder Landgraben.

The Schwemmsandkegelweg can be linked with the "Talk Walk" of the Oderbruch Museum.

A map of the Schwemmsandkegelweg with a QR code for downloading the tour to your smartphone can be found on the website of the Oderbruch Museum.

The walk is also accessible outside the museum's opening hours.

Marking
The walk is not marked.

Arrival and Departure
By car via the B 167 and Schlosstraße, parking lot at Am Anger
By train: RB 60 from Eberswalde or Frankfurt (Oder), Altranft station, approx. 10 minutes walk to the museum
By various bus lines to Altranft