Long Weekend in Bergfeld (b. Berli n), Thursday, 10.2. Until Monday, 14.2., Part 2 / 4
Crisp cold, blue sky. Just the right weather for a trip to the northern suburbs of Berlin. The area near Oranienburg, Bernau Wandlitz and we have explored several years ago during a summer visit to the wheels. This time we travel by car to B. and H. Eberswalde. The city does not interest us, but the monastery Chorin and the ship Niederfinow. On the way to the monastery can say after leaving the motorway, one of his beloved secret paths, a single lane cobbled heart use - through the forest - after all, with official signs. The country is slightly undulating, sparsely populated and not used consistently agrarian. Many brownfield sites are interspersed with trees. Except for a few hardy cows we have no animals to see.
The former Cistercian monastery Chorin, in the 13th Century, built in a beautiful brick Gothic architecture, was in the 16th Century secularized, fell more in the coming centuries and was finally in the 19th Century in its present state preserved. It is picturesque in the country road on a small lake. The fact that hardly anyone is there, let the large visitor parking but guess what is going on here in the summer. We browse in peace through the impressive facility. Then we go around the small, adjacent, slightly frozen lake and explore on a tributary beaver lodges. In the Klosterschänke we warm ourselves at something and strengthen us.
Am Oder-Havel canal, we drive to the boat lift at Niederfinow (1927-34). It is significantly higher and larger than its older counterpart in Henrichenburg (at Waltrop) and above all still operating, though not in winter. A huge construction site refers to a second even bigger lift, which is being built just a complementary and parallel to the existing one. Unfortunately, in the winter, neither the existing nor the elevator under construction open to the public, so we are left with an accompanying exhibition and a view from below the 60 meter high, impressive lift stand up with its steel truss structure, the 85-meter-long ship trough and the 256 steel cables.
The journey continues eastwards, mostly overlooking the Oder-Havel-Canal, including its lake-like extensions and old or poor, through the picturesque or mountain pass , past the traffic jams that meet us from Poland ago. In Hohenwutzen we meet the Oder and go to their bank a walk. It flows fast and wide. High water has flooded the shore meadows. Willows and poplars, head in the water, wild geese roosting on small islands. At the depressed grasses and floating debris left behind can see clearly that the water has not been higher, just below the dike. On both banks waving at regular intervals border posts with the national colors, black, red and yellow on the German Red and white on the Polish side. An abandoned factory in the Polish bank. We pass a lick Kahn, who is full of water has run its surface is frozen to ice. About hordes of wild geese that follow the course of the River.
With difficulty we persuaded H. not to do a short trip to Poland, but gradually to the journey home, so we get even halfway home in daylight. We follow a piece of the Oder north to Hohensaaten where the Oder-Havel canal flows, it goes west. The planned forest road as a shortcut is closed to cars so it goes way over the familiar Oderberg and Eberswalde, back through small villages with many abandoned houses on mountain roads field, while the evening sky darkens gradually.
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