クレマー・ヴァルトでの周辺の簡単なハイキングとウォーキング

Tower is accessible again with a little skill

small parking lot, ideal for starting hikes

In 1806, French troops passed through Klein-Ziethen, Wolfslake and Neu-Vehlefanz on their way to Poland and East Prussia, plundering and burning. At this time, some peasants tried to resist by ambushing and killing individual Frenchmen. The story of the forester Reckin, who lived in the forester's lodge at Krämerpfuhl, has been handed down here. Hidden in a hollow oak tree on the old Heerstraße (today the old Poststraße), which led from Berlin to Hamburg, he ambushed French soldiers marching individually or in small groups and shot some of them. At some point the following soldiers noticed the gun smoke rising from the hollow oak and shot the forester Reckin. Residents of the surrounding villages buried him about 300 paces from the oak. Today a boulder with the inscription "Reckin's Grave" covers this spot. It is customary for anyone passing by the burial site to place a small twig on the stone.

According to legend, during the Napoleonic occupation, the forester Reckin hid in the old, hollow tree and shot at French soldiers. According to another version, Reckin is said to have been a tar distiller and shot robbers in the shop during the Thirty Years' War and hid in the tree to flee. His grave is approx. 250 m further in the direction of the motorway (with rest area)

The Heimatverein Bötzow e.V. works together with the research group Milestones e.V. on the research and documentation of the old "Berlin-Hamburger Poststraße" around 1800. a map showing the course of the postal route and the historical locations of milestones along it. Whole mile, half mile and quarter mile stones are set up along the route. At the Forsthaus Krämerpfuhl there is a half-milestone (4.5 miles to Berlin)

The Pausin station on the Bötzowbahn from Velten to Nauen was located here. The line was closed and dismantled in 1964.

@Endlos ... thank you for this info, and nice to have met you 😇

Unfortunately, there's no longer any chance to take the risk of enjoying the view from the platform, as the entrance has been closed.