The best walks and hikes around Dahme/Mark

Wahlsdorf is a district of the independent town of Dahme/Mark in the Brandenburg district of Teltow-Fläming. It is located about 80 kilometers south of Berlin and, together with the inhabited part of the municipality of Liepe, has about 350 inhabitants. The village is located northwest of the town center and thus borders Charlottenfelde, a residential area of the town of Baruth/Mark, to the northwest, as well as the Baruth district of Petkus to the northwest. To the east, Buckow, another district of Dahme/Mark, borders the village. To the south lies the district of Heinsdorf, and to the west lies the district of Schlenzer in the municipality of Niederer Fläming. Source: Wikipedia

A beautiful building, one would not expect in such a small town.

Fieldstone building from the 13th century with west tower from 1888, neo-Gothic furnishings

Relatively early, namely in a document from 1229, the place appears as Walistorp. His name refers to a man with the then German first name Wal. Wahlsdorf's church consists of a west tower slightly wider than the nave, the nave, a recessed chancel and a semicircular apse. It is therefore a late Romanesque complex of the so-called complete type. However, the entire church is heavily neo-Gothic. The west tower also dates from the major renovations of 1887/88 and deceptively imitates the regular ashlar masonry of the original building sections. It is not impossible that material from a previously existing collapsed tower was used for its construction. On the south side we come across an added community portal on the nave - another one is opposite in the north - and on the chancel a priest's door with a round arch that was also added. This can be assumed at the portals, but can no longer be determined, since modern windows intersect them. In the eastern area of the south side of the ship, the outline of one of the high, small original windows has been preserved. A floor plan of the complete type as well as the round ends of the still recognizable openings clearly indicate that the church dates from the first half of the 13th century. Unfortunately, the 19th-century remodeling erased much of its original appearance. Source http://www.askanier-welten.de/dorfkirchen/wahlsdorf/

Small jetty at the Körbaer pond

Clearly the most beautiful building in town!

Beautiful lake, invites you to linger.

"In 1756 (on June 28) the postal column was erected on the local market," reported Reinhold's "Chronicle of the City of Dahme and the Surrounding Area". The elector had already instructed in 1721 that columns should be erected! One must and may also credit the people of Dahme with the fact that they were still "New Saxony" at the time, because Dahme too only came to Electoral Saxony through the Peace of Prague in 1635. The distance column survived the Seven Years' War at its location, the Napoleonic occupation from 1806 to 1813, the Congress of Vienna, as a result of which Dahme and other Electoral Saxon areas came under Prussia and also the Dahmer uprising of 1848. But a great misfortune struck them in 1881. The Dahmer Chronicle reports (quote from the website of the city of Dahme): "On January 14, 1881, around 11 a.m., our city was robbed of an old monument. The horses of the innkeeper Klaebsch, who lived on Grosse Straße, were stolen, and they drove a wagon loaded with snow from his suddenly shy and drove the pole against the old Saxon postal column on the market square in front of the town hall with such great force that it immediately fell over and was smashed into several pieces." In 2008 it was ceremoniously re-erected as a replica.