Attractions and Places To See around Brunow - Top 20

The Lion's Head Bridge was dismantled in 1992 and rebuilt in 1993 (it's a listed building). This is evident from the approximately 1 meter of concrete in the lower section. It was necessary because the clearance height was insufficient due to electrification in the 1980s, and the track was lowered, often flooding during rain. It was my construction site in 1993. It's a great place to visit! Regards, EO

It now belongs to one "investor", but you can move into the castle.

The station was opened for freight traffic in 1853 and for passenger traffic in 1859. From 1911 to 1975 (passenger traffic) and until the early 1990s (freight traffic), Karstädt was a connecting station to the Westprignitz circular railway. The classicist reception building, together with an outbuilding, the goods shed and the paving of the forecourt, is a listed building. It is just a shame that the DB has once again allowed a station building to completely decay.

The area around the namesake of the Ruhner Mountains is a little more open - the former village of Ruhn, which existed until 1982 and is now just a desert area. Apart from a covered monument, there is nothing left to remind us of the former village, where around 149 people still lived in 1949. Since Ruhn is located in a lowland, from here it goes back up to the Ruhner Berg. Thanks to the many cultivated paddocks and pastures, you can get a better view of the hilly landscape than from the forests, because unfortunately the individual mountains in the dense forests can only be glimpsed.

The village of Ruhn once stood here, giving the Ruhner mountains their name. In 1982 the buildings were demolished; today there is a pavilion here and explains the history of the village.

South of Parchim, in the landscape protection area of the Ruhner mountains, the town of Mentin is located directly on the motorway. Here, on the edge of a small valley, rises a monumental representative mansion. The estate was owned by the von Pressentin family at the end of the 19th century and later came into the possession of Rittmeister Arthur Poensgens, who probably also commissioned the construction of this building. In the years 1912 to 1913 the so-called "Mentin Castle" was built in the Baroque style with Art Nouveau elements according to plans by the architect Paul Korff. In 1916 the Neuerburg family from Hamburg acquired the estate. After World War II, the manor house served as a children's home until 1996. From the manor house, a flight of stairs and subsequent spacious garden terraces lead to the extensive park, which is unfortunately overgrown today. After 1996 there were plans to set up a hotel with an automobile museum in the manor house. This plan was abandoned and in 2007 the building was still empty. The mansion was renovated in 2013. After a brief use as a museum, the mansion is still empty and for sale (as of 08/2021). The distillery and a number of farm buildings made of field stones and bricks have been preserved from the former farm yard, some of which have now been converted into apartments, others are empty. https://gutshaeuser.de/de/guts_herrenhaeuser/gutshaeuser_m/gutshaus_herrenhaus_schloss_mentin

The Löwenkopfbrücke is a bridge over the Berlin-Hamburg railway near Streesow. The listed bridge from the early days of the railways, built in 1846, is one of the oldest bridges over railway lines, possibly even the oldest surviving bridge over railway lines in Germany.

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