Lübbenau Stork Tour

Follow the fascinating trail of the Spreewald storks. On the Lübbenau Stork Tour you can see these graceful birds in their nests and in the wild, while the Stork Centre gives you fascinating insights into how they live. You can explore the living environment of 100 white stork couples and five black stork couples who raise their offspring here every year. Length: 36 kilometresStart/finish: LübbenauLogo/route sign: no signsDirections:Train: Take the RE2 (Cottbus) from Berlin Gesundbrunnen to Lübbenau (approximately 1 hour).Car: Take the A13 motorway from Berlin to Lübbenau (approximately 1.5 hours).Route: Lübbenau, Boblitz, Raddusch, Vetschau, Stradow, Leipe, LübbenauRoute description: The tour takes you via Bobitz to the first stork nest, then to Raddusch to the moors and marshes and Raddusch farm shop – where you are introduced to the secrets of the linseed oil press – and finally to Vetschau Stork Centre. Past fish ponds, water mills, meadows and forests and along riverways, our cycle back to Lübbenau via the Spreewald village of Leipe.Possible combinationsPrince Pueckler PathGherkin Cycle PathHistoric Town Centre Cycle Routes 6Spree Cycle PathTrail conditions/surface: solid sand and asphalt paths, not suitable for racing bikesMaps/Literature: "Bikeline Radkarte Spreewald, Burg, Eisenhüttenstadt, Guben, Lübben, Lübbenau", 1:75.000, Esterbauer Verlag, 1. Auflage (2012), ISBN-13: 978-3850003070, Euro 6.90