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The Ellerau Evangelical Lutheran Church is a member of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church and belongs to the Hamburg Diocese. The congregation currently has approximately 2,300 members. Daily at 6:00 p.m., the "peace ringing" of its bells invites everyone to remember and pray for the people of Ukraine.

To explore the Himmelmoor on foot, there are two circular hiking trails: the Inner Moor Trail and the Outer Moor Trail. You can also walk along the South Dam and the East Dam. Another hiking trail follows the tracks of the old peat railway. All of these trails are marked on the information board. Since 2012, there has also been a bridleway around the moor. Several viewing platforms provide an overview of the parcels.

The Himmelmoor was once the largest raised bog in Schleswig-Holstein, originally covering around 600 hectares. Peat was extracted here from 1780 until 2018. Even before the extraction was halted, the Himmelmoor was gradually being renaturalized and rewetted. There are two circular hiking trails where you can learn about the bog, a hiking trail that follows the trail of the peat railway, and, since 2012, a bridleway around the bog. Several viewing platforms offer an overview of the plots. On some weekends, tours are also available on the peat railway, a historic trolley railway. Parts of the Himmelmoor are an EU-protected fauna and flora habitat (FFH), while others are a landscape conservation area or nature reserve of the Pinneberg district.

Even a four- or five-meter-high hill, built for visitors, offers a much better overview of the landscape left behind by decades of peat extraction.

According to a 1919 contract, peat extraction, which began around 1780, was to continue until the moor had completely disappeared. However, extraction was discontinued in 2018. The gradual renaturation and rewetting of the Himmelmoor had already begun. The "Himmelmoor Friends' Association" was founded in December 2005.

The Himmelmoor, one of the most beautiful moors in the Hamburg metropolitan region, can be explored on a 3.8-kilometer-long moorland nature trail. Along the trail, there are interactive stations and information panels where you can learn fascinating facts about the moor's flora and fauna, as well as its history. From several viewing hills, visitors can enjoy impressive views of the expansive moorland landscape.

Beware of adders on the paths.

Section of the peat railway in Himmelmoor