Trave Beach – View of Dassower Lake loop from Palinger Heide und Halbinsel Teschow

Hiking trails & Routes

Northwest Mecklenburg

Selmsdorf

Trave Beach – View of Dassower Lake loop from Palinger Heide und Halbinsel Teschow

Hard

4.5

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Trave Beach – View of Dassower Lake loop from Palinger Heide und Halbinsel Teschow

06:03

23.3km

140m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 28, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

Please check local regulations for:

Palinger Heide und Halbinsel Teschow

Dassower See, Inseln Buchhorst und Graswerder (Plönswerder)

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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1.74 km

Former Kolonnenweg

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The Kolonnenweg (Colonial Path) remains largely intact even decades after the end of the GDR and today serves as a hiking and cycling path along the former border.

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2.48 km

Border path in Palinger Heide and Teschow Peninsula

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In GDR times, this was the way for the GDR border troops.

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2.64 km

Trave Beach

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Wonderfully quiet here on this part of the Trave.

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9.00 km

View of Stülper Huk

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From here you can look directly at the Stülper Huk. A wild beach is also available.

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11.3 km

View of Dassower Lake

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Pure nature. You rarely meet people here!

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13.9 km

BT-9 Border Observation Tower Teschow

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I think it's right that these relics from GDR times are preserved!

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16.7 km

Forest lake in Palinger Heath and Teschow Peninsula

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The lake is very popular with anglers.

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22.6 km

East Shore of the Trave at Teschow Peninsula

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The Teschower peninsula is a scenic and lonely area. You hardly meet other people here. The small lonely beaches invite you to cool off in the Trave.

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23.3 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

16.1 km

5.83 km

799 m

566 m

Surfaces

9.62 km

6.38 km

6.02 km

1.02 km

288 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 30 October

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Comments

May 25, 2024,Grenzweg – Travestrand Runde von elmsdorf

Unfortunately, it was completely full of mosquitoes from the start. Access to the Teschower Spitze was overgrown, trees were lying across it and there were tall nettles, so access was not possible. There wasn't a single bench along the route and the mosquitoes meant that it was impossible to stop.

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June 22, 2025,⭕️ Selmsdorf: Halbinsel Teschow, Trave, Stepenitz, Dassower See

Today we went to Selmsdorf on the Mecklenburg side of the Trave estuary for a tour of the Teschow Peninsula. The map didn't show some existing paths, and some of the paths that once existed were almost overgrown. The last hundred meters to the tip of the peninsula, from which you can see the Pötenitzer Wiek, were only possible while …

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