The best running trails around Wustrowsee

The operator has changed over the course of this year. There's a new Greek restaurant on the same site. It's no longer called "Syrtaki," but "Kreta." (I just submitted a name change suggestion for this highlight to Komoot.) We ate there on August 28, 2025, and were completely satisfied—very delicious! 🙂

The camel farm has been closed for several years. It is now occupied by the Sternberg Riding Stables.

With sunbathing lawn, jetty, children's slide and lifeguard. Pizza, coffee and cake are available in the Café Auszeit to the east of the sunbathing lawn.

From this elevation on the lake promenade you can look out over the lake; below are old fishermen's houses.

Delicious food and nice staff

with 2 water slides

history of the cemetery The former Jewish cemetery in Sternberg is now only preserved as a memorial in the form of its former property. It is suspected that a Jewish cemetery in Sternberg could have existed as early as the time of the desecration of the host, i.e. in the 15th century, possibly near the hill outside the city in front of the Luckower Tor that later became known as the Judenberg. However, there are no indications of this. It is also unknown where the Sternberg Jews have buried their dead since they were resettled in the middle of the 18th century. The only historically verifiable burial place of the Jews of Sternberg is the cemetery that is still known today, west of the city between the Judenberg and the Luckower See on a flat hill Year 1944, i.e. a total of 112 years. It is documented that the Jewish community approached the Sternberg magistrate as early as 1824 with the desire to erect a graveyard for the Jews. The city complied and so on January 17 or 21, 1825, a corresponding long-term lease was concluded. In return, the Jewish community had to pay an annual leasehold rent of one Reichstaler and 24 N 2/3 Schillings at Martini. As early as 1859, the cemetery became the target of clearly anti-Semitic activities. As the head of the community, Samuel Rosenbaum, who was visibly upset at the time, reported to the magistrate on March 21, 1859, the first tombstone for the widow David (probably Pious David née Salomon, who died in 1857) was damaged by a "nefarious hand", others Stones soiled and inscribed with obnoxious inscriptions such as "Jude Itzing". A perpetrator could not be identified afterwards. In the years that followed, the cemetery was only sporadically documented. This is how the current form of the cemetery hill came about in 1887, when a path was dug through the eastern foothills of the Judenberg for the laying of a new railway line, and only then was the cemetery separated from the rest of the hill. From around 1913, the Israelitische Oberrat began to join together too small congregations or to join larger congregations. As with the attempted sale of the synagogue, the remaining members of the community were understandably against the sale of the cemetery and were able to prevent the sale in 1913 and again in 1924. After the official dissolution of the Jewish community in 1924, the cemetery fell silent and it seems as if the community members were allowed to continue visiting and caring for their cemetery unmolested by restrictions, even after Hitler came to power in 1933. The cemetery initially remained undisturbed until 1937 and so the last burial took place in the Sternberg cemetery that year. The dealer Hermann Kychenthal, one of the last three remaining Jewish Sternbergers, died on August 23, 1937 and was buried at night, accompanied only by a few Sternbergers. According to oral tradition, the Jewish cemetery in Sternberg became a target of devastation on the so-called “Reichskristallnacht”. Almost all the tombstones are said to have been knocked over or broken. How many tombstones were ultimately destroyed can no longer be clarified. According to surveys in Sternberg, around the turn of the century there were around 30 to 40 grave slabs in the cemetery. Even if the files no longer explain exactly how this came about, by 1944 at the latest the Jewish cemetery was under the control of the Reich Finance Administration. With a purchase agreement dated May 20, 1944, the property was sold to the city for a price of 100 RM, which was settled by deleting the land register secured inheritance in favor of the city. In 1948 the property was returned to the Jewish state community. In 1992, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the desecration of the Host in 1492, the cemetery was again prepared as a memorial and a commemorative plaque was installed at the entrance to the cemetery. Today the memorial is maintained by the town of Sternberg. Source: http://www.juden-in-mecklenburg.de/Friedhoefe/Juedischer_Friedhof_Sternberg

Some... cows are grazing peacefully here?! No. You might have to look twice at the fenced-in lawn to believe your eyes. But it's true; there are camels here in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. And not only that—they're also joined by a few ostriches. The mystery of why these exotic animals are found here of all places is quickly solved. The fenced-in area belongs to the Sternberger Burg Camel Farm, where you can get up close to these unusual animals on organized safaris and hikes.