The best walks and hikes around Zemitz

The forest edge garden is part of the Kunst und Natur e.V. association, along with the Tractor Shed/Cultural Center. In addition to vegetables and fruit trees, many different wild plants and animals live here. It is open for visitors when the gate is open. ...to enjoy, rest, sniff, taste, listen, and participate in various events around the large teepee. Please respect our privacy at the house behind the walnut and chestnut trees. www.waldsaumgarten.de

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A deserted harbor in winter

Don't continue down the road by the harbor, even if the satnav says you can save kilometers. It turns into a dirt road and then there's just fields!

During the new interior work in 1857, the west gallery was enlarged and made to serve as an organ gallery. The old organ was now too small and was sold to the parish of Stolpe near Usedom. In 1865, a new organ (one-manual, seven registers) was installed by the Stettin company Barnim Grüneberg. The design, however, suggests that it is a Buchholz organ that was only subsequently overhauled by Grüneberg.[18] The three-sided organ facade has a Gothic structure with corresponding decorative forms. It is one-manual and has ten registers. During the First World War, the organ pipes from the Krummin church were also melted down. In 1923, Pastor Karl Christoph Alexander Böttiger had the organ restored by the Grüneberg company from Stettin-Finkenwalde. In 1993, the organ was thoroughly renovated by the organ building and restoration workshop Rainer Wolter and fitted with new tin pipes. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Michael-Kirche_(Krummin)

The Krummin church must have originally been richly decorated with religious works of art. In addition to an altar of St. Michael as the patron saint of the church, there were probably various altars to the Virgin Mary, because the Virgin Mary was the patron saint of the Cistercian Order. Sources mention chalices, vestments and other jewels. Parts of the former furnishings have been stored away. The late medieval altar to the Virgin Mary is in the Szczecin National Museum and a chalice is in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald. An altar has been preserved, above which is a crucifix, which was made around 1500 by a Stralsund master. The organ was built in 1863 by Barnim Grüneberg. The choir windows were designed by Hermann Lindner in 1993. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Michael-Kirche_(Krummin)

The northwestern part of the island of Usedom used to include the land of Bukow. There was a place of the same name that no longer exists. The settlement already had a church in 1230, which was dedicated to Saint Michael and was donated by Duke Barnim I and his mother Miroslawa with tithes from the neighboring villages.[1] In this context, Krummin is first mentioned in documents under Crominino. The first priest was called Goswin (Gozwin)[1][2], as can be seen from a confirmation of the bishop's taxes by Bishop Konrad II[3] on August 12, 1230. The church was the outermost outpost of the Premonstratensian monastery of Grobe on the island.[4] It is considered the predecessor of today's Krummin church. The first mention of St. Michael's Church in Krummin was made in a document from 1290, in which the knight Johann Voss was confirmed the patronage of this parish church, which Barnim I had granted him. The knight Johann Voss was one of the closest advisors to Duke Barnim I and was particularly supportive of the founding of Cistercian monasteries. Since Krummin, like Wollin, was one of the smaller monasteries, the Reformation probably took place here without any particular incidents. The monastery was visited by Duke Johann Friedrich and came to the Wolgast office. The archive with the original documents also came to Wolgast, as can be seen from the registration of the Crummin Virgins' Convent in 1562. During the Thirty Years' War, the monastery and the church suffered fire damage and great devastation. The rectory and almost the entire village were burned down. It was reported that the imperial forces here, as everywhere in Pomerania, lived in such an outrageous manner that the pulpit and altar, benches and galleries were hewn out and burned, but the church itself was left roofless, with a wooden tower next to it in which the enemies had left only one of the three bells.[5] The church was repaired after the end of the Thirty Years' War with stones from the old monastery and remained towerless for a period of 200 years. In 1662, Christine of Sweden appointed the subdeacon of Wolgast, Bernhard Alberti, as pastor for Krummin.[6] According to the chronicle, from 1657 the Counts of Wrangel were the landowners and church patrons, whereby legally the patronage of the Krummin church always remained sovereign, but the landowners were listed as patrons in the church register. Until 1720 Krummin belonged to Swedish Pomerania and the parish to the Wolgast synod. With the Peace of Stockholm, Wolgast remained Swedish, but the island of Usedom became Prussian and Krummin was leased to the Pudagla district and to the Usedom Synod. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Michael-Kirche_(Krummin)

Short break at the harbor