The best family-friendly hikes and walks around Löcknitzer Lake

Nice place to linger and feast

small but beautiful castle.

Campsite, restaurant and nature

After the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), Löcknitz was largely in ruins, with only the castle and the fortifications and the castle mill remaining. The rivers Welse and Randow now formed the new border between Brandenburg and Swedish Pomerania. As a result, Löcknitz with its fortified castle became an important Brandenburg border fortress against Sweden after 1650.

Monument to the soldiers from Locknitz who died in World War I. The four-sided obelisk lists the names of all 79 soldiers, and on each side of the obelisk there is the inscription "They died for their homeland."

Nice lake. You can visit the swimming pool in the summer season, cycle around it from spring to autumn, and walk around it all year round. there is a restaurant by the beach

The history of the city dates back to 1127, when the Slavs built a defensive stronghold in the Randow River valley. The first mention of a defensive structure in Löcknitz dates back to 1212, and in 1242 a bridge was built in place of the ford. For years, the border between Pomerania and Brandenburg running through here justifies the fortified character of the town. Once Löcknitz belonged to the Pomeranian princes, once to the Branderburgians. In the book Medieval Castles of Western Pomerania, Zbigniew Radacki wrote that the stronghold belonged to the bishops of Kamień. In 1280, a document on the division of the Kołobrzeg land was signed in the "castrum Lokenitz". In 1390, Bishop Filip von Rehberg renounced the castle to the princes of Szczecin, who gave it to the Wusses, knights from Lębork, "hus civitas i terra Lockenitze" for 3,000 marks towards the debt. Around 1400, the stronghold received a brick form, and in 1479 it came into the possession of the Schulenburg family. Then the place was rebuilt many times, in the mid-16th century it was converted into a Renaissance-style manor house. It lost its strategic importance in 1720 after the annexation of Brandenburg and Pomerania to Prussia.

The church in Löcknitz is a hall church, built of yellow brick, with stepped buttresses on the outside, and the rectangular basic shape of the nave is complemented by four corner pillars with "turret approaches", the so-called pinnacles. The window openings were designed on a Gothic ogival plan, with two rows of windows one above the other in the church eaves from the north and south. The 45-meter-high tower (up to the top with a golden ball and cross) has a square plan with an octagonal bell tower with high combined sound holes, which were renovated in 2013, and a slender pointed dome with a copper coating from 1986. The surfaces of the tower's walls are also structured through pilaster strips.