The best dog-friendly hikes and walks in Charlotten­Höhe

this is Cross Country MTB heaven, natural path and single tracks, some nice hills and downhill section, so goooood.

NSG on a former military training area. There are all sorts of signs warning you that it is a wolf's roaming area - but I didn't see one. But I did see more Thyme Burnet Moths than I've ever seen anywhere else before; that was phenomenal (and certainly lucky timing).

If you pass here on the Berlin-Usedom cycle path, you can always take a little break.

On the western shore of Lake Sternhagen lies the town of Lindenhagen with its church built from neatly layered blocks of fieldstone. Almost at the same time, a rectangular choir, the slightly wider nave and the slightly wider, rectangular basement of the west tower and the south sacristy were built here in the 13th century. The originally late Romanesque architectural style is underlined by the slender three-window group in the east wall and the granite stone portals, some with imposts, on the north side. The church received a baroque transformation in the 18th century. The windows were enlarged and widened in the form of basket arches and an upper floor with a curved hood was added to the tower. In the course of the new roofing, the gable edges on the choir, nave and sacristy were also reshaped. The gateway in the west of the stone wall surrounding the churchyard also dates from the Baroque period. A cemetery was laid out in Beenzer Straße (No. 5). On the small area there are still numerous tombs with wrought-iron bars from the turn of the century. If you are interested in the history of the village of Lindenhagen and its church, you will search in vain in old documents, church registers or publications. The place, first mentioned in 1324, bore the name Hindenburg until 1949. Although the Uckermark village had nothing to do with the Field Marshal and later Reich President, this name did not fit the new, socialist era. The official renaming took place, perhaps inspired by the linden trees around the church building. Sources: https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-lindenhagen https://www.dorfkirchen-in-mv.de

Beautiful old stone church. The tower is brick and plastered, it was probably added much later.

The first mention of the village comes from 1321 as Tzelchów. Czołkhov then appears in the village register from 1375. The village had then 40 farmers and 3 parishes. The name comes from the Slavic language and refers to the settlement of a certain Sulecha. The Zollchow Church is a simple rectangular hall with a square and timbered roof tower to the west. Its walls were built of regularly hewn blocks of field stone. The foot is surrounded by a slightly protruding base, the top of which is sloped. On the north side there is a brick plastered hall. It seems that the church may have been completely plastered in the meantime. Windows with brick jambs are late gothic or neo gothic. The floor plan, and especially the brickwork, clearly indicate the 13th century. Destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, it was still abandoned in 1687. Visible changes, such as the enlargement of the windows with their brick soffits, the re-erection of gables and screens to the east, probably occurred mainly during the reconstruction of the ruins. This seems to have happened in the 17th century as the top of the tower dates back to around 1694. The sandstone sundial in the eastern part of the southern front is from the 18th century, as is the altar of the pulpit inside.

The inside of the church is also quite beautiful. But if you don't get in that way, except when the occasion arises. Unfortunately we had a funeral 🥺

A memorial plaque for those who died in WWI hangs on the outside wall of the church