Easy hikes and walks in Liebenberger Bruch

Cycling can hardly be more beautiful than here - in the forest and close to the lake! The cycle path is beautifully curvy, but not too curvy. An experience!

A real idyll with a very attractive, diverse forest environment. Large stands of spruce trees and strong individual specimens. You can't go around the Papensee, but there are at least two good places to swim, and not just at the northern end!

Memorial stone erected 39 years after the death of Karl von Hertefeld, which unfortunately is visibly weathering.

Well-kept park with beautiful paths. Absolute peace and quiet during the week.

In summer 2024 there will be three open-air cinemas in the castle park and on the castle grounds: 06/08/2024, 9:30 p.m.: A Star is Born 06/22/2024, 9:30 p.m.: Anatomy of a Case 07/20/2024, 9:30 p.m.: Just something nice Admission costs 9 euros. On July 6, 2024, the Havelländer Puppenbühe will be visiting. Performances at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., for children up to 10 years old, admission free, no registration necessary On June 9, 2024 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Brandenburg Country Party will take place at Liebenberg Castle & Estate, with workshops, forest and herb tours and a varied program for young and old. Admission is free, registration is not necessary. All information about the summer program at Liebenberg Castle and Estate can be found at: www.dkb-stiftung.de From May 5th to October 27th, 2024, the "Café im Lindenhaus" in the castle park offers the opportunity to have brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and to enjoy coffee and cake from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Delicious delicacies from the castle kitchen are served. The Café im Lindenhaus asks for a reservation at schloss-liebenberg.de. And once a month, on May 5th, June 2nd, July 7th and August 4th, 2024, the DKB STIFTUNG Museum offers a free guided tour of the estate grounds at 2 p.m. on the 800-year history of Liebenberg. The meeting point is the Kaiserbrunnen in the castle courtyard. Registration is not necessary.

From May 5th to October 27th, 2024, the "Café im Lindenhaus" in the castle park offers the opportunity to have brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and to enjoy coffee and cake from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Delicious delicacies from the castle kitchen are served. The Café im Lindenhaus asks for a reservation at schloss-liebenberg.de. And once a month, on May 5th, June 2nd, July 7th and August 4th, 2024, the DKB STIFTUNG Museum offers a free guided tour of the estate grounds at 2 p.m. on the 800-year history of Liebenberg. The meeting point is the Kaiserbrunnen in the castle courtyard. Registration is not necessary. In summer 2024 there will be three open-air cinemas in the castle park and on the castle grounds: June 8th, 2024, 9:30 p.m.: A Star is Born June 22nd, 2024, 9:30 p.m.: Anatomy of a Case July 20th, 2024, 9:30 p.m.: Just something nice Admission costs 9 euros. On July 6th, 2024 the Havelländer Puppenbühe will be visiting. Performances at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., for children up to 10 years old, admission free, no registration necessary On June 9th, 2024 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Brandenburg Country Party will take place at Schloss & Gut Liebenberg, with workshops, forest and herb tours and a varied program for young and old. Admission is free, registration is not necessary. All information about the summer program at Schloss & Gut Liebenberg at: dkb-stiftung.de

Schloss & Gut Liebenberg is an idyllic destination with an eventful history. Today the DKB STIFTUNG and the associated inclusion company (the largest in Brandenburg) have their headquarters here.

The origins of the Liebenberger Park lie in the 16th century. In addition to at least two buildings, the knight's seat mentioned in 1580 also included a kitchen and ornamental garden typical of the time. After the Thirty Years' War, the zu Hertefeld family bought the property in 1652. They initially devoted themselves to draining the swampy marshy land south-east of Liebenberg in order to make it arable for agriculture and dairy cattle breeding. This marked the beginning of a heyday for Gut Liebenberg. The park was used for supply, recreation and edification, but also to represent the wealth of the Hertefeld family, which was well known in Prussia. Even then, the park stretched beyond the narrower castle and estate area into the adjacent forest up to the Lindsee. It was structured by trimmed rows of trees, straight paths and a central longitudinal axis, which divided off lawns with espaliered fruit surrounded by borders. This inner park was therefore used both for decoration and for growing fruit. The outer park, which adjoins towards the hill in the north-east, was only designed in a restrained manner. It was reserved for the manorial hunt. At the beginning of the 19th century, tastes in garden design changed. In 1829, Karl zu Hertefeld commissioned the up-and-coming garden architect Peter Josef Lenné to come up with a new concept. He drew up a plan for converting the Liebenberger Barockpark into a landscaped park, which was based on English models. The apparently more natural landscape design included the loosening up of closed rows of trees, the variety through differences in height and the breaking up of the strictly straight lines and boundaries. The baroque longitudinal axis from the tea house to the Kappen Hügel remained part of the new concept as a visual connection. Lenné's plan was not implemented completely and only gradually. A drawing of the castle and park from 1847 still shows a strictly linear wayside cross around a circular water basin on today's castle park meadow. More information at: https://www.dkb-stiftung.de/schlosspark/