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Impressive memorial site for the razed village

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Here Germany was divided.

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An interesting insight into German history.

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This is definitely worth a visit!❤️🥰🌾🌊

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Beautiful swimming area with a jetty. Plenty of shade in the summer.

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Difficult to reach with a normal bike. I managed to get to the spot more or less with my trekking bike.

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It's really worth a visit! You can eat tasty snacks and there's great coffee! The farm shop is great, cheese, yoghurt, milk, butter and much, much more!! You can even try individual things straight away!! Really great, we'll definitely be back!! 🧀🥖🍎🍓🥛🍩☕️

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The Lankow hiking car park on Thurower Straße/K7 is the best starting point to reach the former razed village of Lankow. You can find further interesting information about Lankow here: https://dorf-dechow.de/ortsteile/lankow/

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The “Eternal Pond” area is part of a hollow that is drained to varying degrees and is partly moss-covered and is sunk into the Weichselian ground moraine. Due to its former location in the inner-German border area, the area was completely inaccessible for a long time. The nature reserve offers protected habitat for a large diversity of flora and fauna, including many species of dragonflies, grasshoppers and birds, as well as a particularly pronounced diversity of vegetation. It is also a hunting ground for marsh harriers, common buzzards and white storks. The NSG "Eternal Pond" represents a connecting axis between different biotopes. The area is, so to speak, a junction between several nature reserves and thus enabled animal migration, genetic exchange between populations, as well as natural expansion and repopulation processes. https://www.schaalsee.de/schuetzen-entwickel/naturschutz/naturschutzräume/ewiger-teich

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Fortunately, today you can only guess at the former column route and if you didn't know it, you wouldn't recognize it anymore. Today it is a very beautiful hiking trail through lonely nature on historical grounds. When I was there on March 19, 2024, I hadn't met a single soul here. It's wonderful to be so lonely and alone in nature.

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There is no sign of the former border fence today and it is hard to imagine that it was once like that. But the aerial photos on the information board prove it. Nowadays it is a very quiet, idyllic place and a nice place for a short break with rolling lake views.

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Founded as a Slavic settlement, the village of Lankow lay on a peninsula on Lake Lankow west of Dechow. Recent excavations document a ten-thousand-year-old settlement history. In 1942, Lankow had 59 inhabitants. Due to refugees, the population had grown to over 100 by 1946, and by 1973, it had fallen to just 28. Following the "Barber-Ljaschtschenko Agreement" in November 1945, the demarcation line between the British and Soviet occupation zones moved to Lake Lankow. This placed the village on the inner-German border, in the Russian occupation zone. The establishment of the SED dictatorship was also felt in Lankow. On Soviet orders, the GDR government established a five-kilometer-wide restricted area along the inner-German border in 1952. The village of Lankow was located in the restricted area and belonged to the 500-meter-wide protective strip directly on the dividing line between East and West. Here, the residents were subject to particularly restrictive regulations; some fled to the West. The exposed location on the lake directly on the western state border tempted quite a few people to illegally cross the border. To protect itself against this, the state forcibly relocated all long-established farming and artisan families to the interior of the GDR in 1952 and 1961, without regard for family ties. New residents moved into the now vacant farms and apartments, or they were demolished and leveled. The few remaining residents of Lankow were gradually resettled as well. In 1976, Lankow was "freed." That same year, further border security and border adjustment began. All Lankow houses and agricultural buildings were demolished, and their remains were pushed down the slope to the lake. To ensure a clear line of sight and a clear field of fire, the vegetation was removed. To deter refugees, border signal and expanded metal barrier fences stretched across Lake Lankow from 1976 to 1990. So Lankow was razed. Simply unbelievable! Today, only a few remnants of the settlement and rural garden culture, as well as a memorial stone, an information board, and boulders with photos marking the location of the former farmsteads, remind us of the village on Lake Lankow, which was undesirable by the GDR government. A detour to Lankow and search for traces on the memorial and educational trail is truly worthwhile! https://dorf-dechow.de/ortsteile/lankow/

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A freak of nature

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The two trees are a surprising and inspiring sight.

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Well-kept swimming area, good jetty with a bench on it, clear water

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I can only recommend mooring and bathing

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The path is lined with hedges and old trees and leads through the Dehower moor and pasture landscape. The wild pastures are now farmed with cattle. Through their feeding, they ensure more biodiversity. Fog creates a mystical atmosphere in the evening or in the early morning. The moors, such as the Borgmoor, are habitats for many rare species, such as dragonflies. The hedges are inhabited, for example, by the dormouse, which belongs to the bilchen. She sleeps here in her spherical nest, the roost, and looks for nuts and fruits.

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The nutrient-poor grassland and open sandy areas provide a valuable home for many insects, reptiles and birds. Here you can see the dimensions of the Ice Age meltwater channel.

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This is where the border fence once ran through Lake Lankow. This can hardly be seen on the other side of the river.

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In summer you can cool down here and in winter you have a wonderful view over the lake from the jetty. Sea eagles can also be observed very regularly from here. The Röggelinger See is a nature conservation and FFH area!

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