The best family-friendly hikes and walks around Grosser Maasdorfer Teich

A beautiful place to linger. Especially on the second weekend in July each year, when the Rothstein Rock Festival is held at the foot of the rock. It's probably the largest folk festival in the area. A great place to celebrate.

There are many geese and ducks with young to see

Following the rapid increase in the number of children in Dobra and the farms, known as vineyards, located between Dobra and Bad Liebenwerda, from 20 to 140 students, the existing school, built in 1822 in the town center, was largely demolished and a larger new one was built on the same site. After only five months of construction, the new school building was opened in late summer 1879. At the same time, the motto for the growing generation, "What a man sows, that he shall reap," was carved in stone above the entrance door, clearly visible to all. A large classroom was set up on the ground floor, and the other rooms served as the teacher's residence. With the closure of the school in 1970, it was converted to a kindergarten. This resulted in significant structural changes to the building's appearance. In the early 1990s, childcare in this building came to an end. Since then, Dobra children have been required to attend the daycare center in the neighboring village of Zei.

At the entrance to the Weinberge Cemetery in Bad Liebenwerda stands an imposing memorial flanked by two large stone eagles commemorating the fallen and missing soldiers of World War I. It is striking that the duration of the war is stated here not as 1914 to 1918, but as 1914 to 1920.

Brandenburg's oldest landscape, the Lower Lusatian Heathland, which includes the Liebenwerda Heath, was formed approximately 180,000 years ago. At that time, the Saale Ice Age ended, leaving behind hills and basins that, over the millennia, were smoothed into gentle shapes by wind and water. The lakes formed during the Ice Age have since silted up. But the landscape's diversity remains.

Chainsaw carver Roland Karl, born in 1960, discovered this unusual art form through travels after the fall of the Berlin Wall, primarily to the USA and Canada. The trained plant engineer and forester has been working as a freelance artist in his workshop in Dobra since 2006. Using his chainsaw, he carves people, animals, forest spirits, and much more into large blocks of wood.

This large hiking car park with rest area is located at the Dobra entrance to the "Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft" nature park.

The area around Dobra was already settled in prehistoric times. A burial ground with burial mounds dating back to approximately 3,000 years ago indicates human settlements in the Bronze Age. The village was first documented in 1422. Dobra probably owes its name to the Sorbian "dobra voda," meaning "good water," and possibly derived from the original stream name. Dobra was once the court seat of the Liebenwerda district. The church square is the focal point of the village. A particularly striking feature is a beautifully carved wooden welcome plaque depicting the village's two former mills.