ボルコー周辺のアトラクション＆必見スポット - トップ20

Mhm Holger writes: it's free in the off-season. That's not entirely true 😅. We were just there and paid €3.50 per person. With that you can visit a small exhibition and the open-air area. Definitely a pretty interesting place to experience history.

Dobbertin is a very pretty brick half-timbered village, dominated by its large monastery on the shore of the lake. This monastery, once enormously wealthy (25,000 hectares of property! That means all the surrounding villages, forests, fields,...! One of the largest and richest businesses in Mecklenburg until it was dissolved in 1918), is now a home and job opportunity for disabled people. Perhaps a little remote, but quiet and a world of its own.

Dobbertin is a very pretty brick half-timbered village, dominated by its large monastery on the shore of the lake. This monastery, once enormously wealthy (25,000 hectares of property! That means all the surrounding villages, forests, fields, ...! One of the largest and richest businesses in Mecklenburg until it was dissolved in 1918), is now a home and job opportunity for disabled people. Perhaps a little remote, but quiet and a world of its own.

In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Warnowers, a Slavic people, settled on the lake, built a mighty ring wall on the (then) island and thus a castle that could only be reached via a bridge, and their village on the headland in front of it. All of this was excavated again (from 1973 onwards), and because everything was well preserved by the moor, it became an open-air museum and we can look at it. Very interesting, highly recommended. (Now in the off-season, the whole thing is even free.)

The story in brief: The glacier of the Ice Age came from Scandinavia, big, thick and fat (you can hardly imagine how fat it was!), pushed everything in front of it that stood in its way, and came to a standstill 16,000 years ago. The ice that melted flowed forward (i.e. south) and collected in large lakes. When it got warmer (15,000 years ago), the glacier crumbled and melted; the meltwater continued to flow forward (south) in channels, collected... and at some point (11,000 years ago) there was no glacier left, the surface was smooth and also lower, the direction of flow in the channels reversed... and the Warnow deepened the channel by pushing up hills (terminal moraine). Sure, everyone knows that. But seeing all this live, with a 30-40m difference in height between the chain of hills and the Warnow bed, with this story in mind, is a different matter, namely very impressive.

An overwhelming sight

Extensive excavations took place between 1973 and 1980, during which remains of a Slavic settlement from the 9th and 10th centuries were uncovered.

The circular castle wall, visible from afar, is located on an offshore peninsula. It has a diameter of 50 meters. The castle complex was reconstructed based on the excavations and set up as an archaeological open-air museum