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Selchow Castle, built in 1913 as a bourgeois summer residence for a prominent industrialist, is situated directly adjacent to the Gross-Schauener-Seenkette nature reserve. Now, the 1,200 m² villa with its 2-hectare park offers the comforts of a boutique hotel, including a 150 m² spa (sauna/cold plunge pool), cinema, bar, library, fireplace, and billiards.

Hidden rest area

It looks like a mistake of nature – and yet is a masterpiece of survival. Wolzig's burr pine stands like an ancient dancer, balancing barefoot on tiptoes, its exposed roots digging into the sand like fingers. For a hundred years, it has defied wind and man, rain and dune retreat – and seems to have only grown stronger. Here, in the midst of the Brandenburg pine sea, this tree speaks of steadfastness. Of adaptation. And of the quiet dignity of one who does not complain, but grows. Everyone who stands before it suddenly falls silent. Perhaps because they sense: This pine has understood more about life than many a person with sturdy shoes.

Beautiful bridge and great surroundings

Since 2009, where ferrymen once offered their services, residents and tourists have been able to cross the river on foot or by bike using the pylon cable-stayed bridge. With a length of over 200 meters (span across the Dahme: 45 meters), a 21-meter-high pylon and a width of 2.60 meters, it is one of the largest German cycle and pedestrian bridges. It was only thanks to it that the Dahme cycle path could be realized.

Streganz is a typical circular village with preserved fieldstone buildings and an old tree population on the village green. Archaeological finds show that Streganz was founded around 1100 at the earliest. There was a Bronze Age settlement, but after that the Streganz area was uninhabited for more than a thousand years. The first settlers were a family called Stregan, after whom the place was named. The descendants' names changed over the next few centuries to Strenga and then to Strenge. The core of the settlement was the village meadow with the farms that were under the jurisdiction of the Storkow office. In 1514, a manor was added as a fief, which was managed by farmers and cottagers who lived on the village street. A manor house was not built until 1745. The inhabitants of the village were under the jurisdiction of their respective lords, i.e. the Storkow office or the lord of the manor. It was only after 1811 that the residents were able to purchase the farms as property in exchange for a cash payment. The purchase price was usually ten times the value of the annual dues to the employer. In 1840, almost all of the buildings in the village were made of timber-framed wood, including the old manor house. Only on the Lehnschulzenhof, Dorfaue 20, were there two stone buildings. The Lehnschulze was the "mayor" of the Storkow district. After one of the Silesian Wars between 1740 and 1763, a peace oak was planted on the Dorfaue, today an impressive tree in good condition. The layout of the individual plots on the Dorfaue and Dorfstraße has been preserved over the centuries, only the buildings have been gradually renovated. Streganz has changed very little to this day.

A very nice quiet path

You can at least see it in the distance 🙃