Rundweg zum Schumellensee, walking tour

This hike around Boitzenburg will take your through an extraordinarily interesting cultivated landscape. In the south-west of the town, there is a beech forest that has been created as an extended park: Carolinenhain. The forest that was named after Count von Arnim’s wife Anna Caroline von der Schulenburg stretches all the way to the chain of lakes including Krienkowsee and Schumellensee. Work on a landscape park was first taken up in 1780 and was continued by Lenné in 1838. The park is home to a number of particularly big trees.

Length: 5 kilometres (1.5 hours)

Start/finish: Boitzenburg Castle

Logo/route sign: Yellow dot

How to get there/return journey:By public transport: Take the RE3 (Stralsund) from Berlin central station (Hauptbahnhof) to Prenzlau. From here take bus no. 503 to Boitzenburg (about 2.5 hours).By car: From Berlin via the A11 and L24 to Boitzenburg (about 1.5 hours).Route: Boitzenburg, Schumellensee, Boitzenburg

Tour description: You start your walk at the Marstall opposite the castle. The route goes past the von Arnim burial site, the Apollo temple with views of the castle, the serpent temple and a botanical curiosity: grown-together trees.

Points of interest: Boitzenburg: Burial site of the von Arnim family, Apollo temple, grown-together trees, Boitzenburg Castle

The route can be combined with the Uckermark Country Loop.

Trail conditions/surface: Not specified

Recommended maps:Naturpark Uckermärkische Seen Ost, Top. Freizeitkarte, 1:50,000, Landesvermessung und Geobasisinformation Brandenburg, ISBN 978-3-7490-4161-9, Euro 5.00ADFC-Regionalkarte Uckermark mit Tagestouren-Vorschlägen, 1:75,000, Bielefelder Verlag, 1st edition (April 6, 2016), ISBN: 978-3-87073-745-0, Euro 8.95