Mecklenburg Lake Cycle Route - Mecklenburgischer Seen-Radweg

The lakes cycle path connects several popular holiday regions and starts in Luneburg, the capital of Lueneburg Heath and leads over the Mecklenburg Lake District until after Usedom at the Baltic Sea.

Route profile

  • Length: 642 km
  • Signposting: Mostly reliable
  • Slopes: Very moderate; somewhat hilly between Neustrelitz and Neubrandenburg
  • Path condition: Overall good to drive, some sections freshly tarred (2010), but also cobblestones especially in the places and a few root paths (behind Plau!) And sandy paths there
  • Traffic load: Lots of car-free tours and separate bike paths, but also sections with little to medium traffic
  • Suitable bike: Stable upright, armchair or recumbent bike; Tricycles or two-lane trailers would have to bypass some single-lane spots.
  • Family suitability:
  • Inline suitability:

background

preparation

There are numerous accommodations between Plau and Wolgast (route before that no experience), only a bit rare between Neubrandenburg and Ueckermünde. Advance booking on weekends (and probably during the holidays) makes sense, otherwise you can also find something spontaneously. Bikeline guides very helpful in terms of accommodations and quite helpful in terms of places of interest.

getting there

Public transportation

By bicycle

In the street

Route description with sights

Corner points of the route

→ Hitzacker A charming half-timbered town on the south bank of the Elbe is well worth a detour; In addition, the cycle path on the Elbe between Hitzacker and Dömitzer Brücke mostly runs along the dike with great views, so that deviating from the official route should be considered here.
  • Doemitz - Remains of the Dömitzer bridge
→ From Plau the route goes close to the lake through beautiful deciduous forest, very romantic, but towards the end more and more rooted and strenuous to Bad Stuer. Then between fields specially built good bike path. Accommodation a little off the bike path in Kogel "Gasthaus am See" behind prefabricated buildings, but itself very beautifully located on the lake.
  • Röbel- After a very good bike path, it goes down to Röbel, which welcomes you with prefabricated buildings and a supermarket; But it has a beautiful old town with two impressive churches and lots of half-timbered houses, good views from the old windmill and St. Mary's Church.
→ As you continue towards Waren, there are nice places to stop for refreshments at the lake, freshly paved path through the meadows with a great view of the lake. In the village of Sietow, it is worth rolling down to the harbor. (The bike path passes here) The imposing Klink Castle has been converted into a hotel, with a terrace with a view of the lake and a cake buffet. Then a medium-good path through deciduous forest with a few slopes. Always own bike path after Waren.
→ Behind Waren, the cycle path is rarely asphalted, but it is very easy to drive through the Müritz National Park. In Federow (approx. 500 meters from the route) there is a well-equipped national park information point with the possibility of observing an osprey nest via webcam. A little later you can see the nest from a distance "live". The route then essentially goes through forest, which you can usually not see the national park so much. Behind the national park there is a good bathing area in Rechlin directly on the bike path.
  • Mirow - Here a detour to the castle island is worthwhile. The castle is rather simple, but with the church under tall trees, a small island with a bridge and a small pier, it forms an ensemble that is well worth seeing. Further back in the village, the beach hotel has a good swimming area, sunset over the lake and a good breakfast on the terrace over the lake.
→ Behind Miro, the route runs for a long time on a district road, first on the accompanying cycle path, then on the lane with light to medium traffic. Road with little traffic from Diemitzer Schleuse. Behind Canow there is a beautiful, well-developed cycle path through meadows and forest, where you meet the Berlin-Copenhagen cycle path. Behind Neu Canow it goes bumpy, steeply downhill and then a km difficult rooted along the lake - scenic but very beautiful. Shortly afterwards, behind Seewalde, first cobblestones uphill; the way to Neu Drosedow looked very sandy (has anyone driven it?), the bypass via Drosedow to Wesenberg is nice and easy to drive.
→ Behind Neustrelitz, a varied route, almost always paved, but with an extraordinary amount of ups and downs for this long-distance cycle path. Before Carpin, you can make a detour to the Müritz National Park information point Serrahn (attention - the path goes left, but the sign is on the right!). Exhausting with the bike, but around Serrahn very beautiful old beech forest.
  • Neubrandenburg - Neubrandenburg has impressive, well-preserved city gates and an intact city wall with attached black and white half-timbered houses. Anyone who suspects an old town behind these walls is mistaken; the city center is rather straightforward and not very old.
→ Behind Neubrandenburg there is a cycle path along the busy B 104 through apartment blocks and industry, then quietly on a moderately gravel path through flat meadows. Between Liepen and Eichhorst 2 km bad cobblestone pavement, which you can only halfway avoid on the sandy edge. Sharp right after Eichhorst - badly signposted here! - on the then very beautiful, freshly paved bike path through woods and meadows. The route is now very varied and easy to drive again. Galenbeck is worthwhile with its church, manor house, castle ruins and observation tower to the lake as well as nice refreshment stops (which are not so frequent on this section!), The dirt road back to the country road is well worth driving. After that no information about the dirt roads, as bypassed on the county road. Before Ueckermünde, a longer stretch as a dead straight through a coniferous forest on the cycle path along the road; At the entrance to the village at the sign "Heron Colony" it is worthwhile to stop and look into the treetops.
→ After Ueckermünde, the route runs flat along the Stettiner Haff, of which, however, you hardly ever see anything. Good dike path between Bugewitz and the observation tower on the peat bog; then it is narrow, overgrown, partly sandy and not accessible for two-lane vehicles (tricycles, etc.). A detour to the remnants of the Eisebahnhubbrücke, which can be seen from afar, also leads to a passenger and bicycle ferry that brings you directly to Karnin on Usedom and shortens the arc via Anklam.

Note: If you are familiar with the route, remove the heading "Corner points of the route" and replace this section with a detailed route description with stages. It is best to simply work the place names into the stages. You can find instructions on how to do this here .

An example of a fully developed cycle route with stages is here to find.

Other places to stay

trips

References to literature and maps

  • Mecklenburg Lake Cycle Route. From Lüneburg to the island of Usedom, Quadrat-Spiralo 1: 75,000, BVA Bielefelder Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-87073-260-8

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