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Loben自然保護区の全域では、とりわけ、湿地の歴史に関する多くの情報板が見られます。もう一つのハイライトは、高さ5メートルの展望台です。木製の遊歩道が湿地へと続いています。

The 35-hectare protected forest – located northeast of you – preserves and develops an old, groundwater-influenced forest site as a near-natural research area, strengthens the natural balance, protects endangered plants and animals, and simultaneously maintains its unique character and scenic beauty. As a valuable section of the vegetation mosaics typical of the Lusatian Lowlands, consisting of pine, spruce-pine, and birch-pedunculate oak forests, as well as a mesotrophic-acidic fen, it is being scientifically studied in the long term without direct human intervention.

The church, a Baroque hall church, originated from a medieval brick building and is probably the oldest structure in the city. It was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt due to fires. The current structure is likely the reconstruction from around 1718. The interior is dominated by the Leipzig green paint applied in 1831. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Katharina-Kirche_(Elsterwerda)

The bust was erected in 1983 in what is now Elsterwerda's memorial square, replacing a VVN (Association of Victims of Nazi Persecution) memorial. It was removed in 1994 and stored for several years at the municipal depot. Since October 1, 1997, it has been re-erected in the nearby city park. (wikipedia)

The Saxon post milestone stands near the Protestant town church of St. Catherine on the main street. This distance marker, dating from 1738, is considered an important piece of cultural heritage and a landmark that shapes the townscape. In August 2025, the approximately 4.60-meter-high column was dismantled for professional restoration. https://www.elsterwerda.de/kursaechsische-postmeilensaeule-erstrahlt-im-neuen-glanz/

Between ivy-covered walls and shady trees, he stands – silent, heavy, cast in bronze: Karl Marx, with a stern gaze and a mighty beard. No socialist pomp, no red flag, no revolutionary pathos – just a pedestal with a simple inscription and a narrow path leading through the modest little garden. Those who come here must want to. This monument doesn't call, it waits. The air is calm, the light slant through the trees, a few leaves have strayed onto the gravel bed. It is a place that doesn't make noise – but resonates long afterward. The bust looks forward, as if to remind us that history is not only past, but also present. That ideas leave traces – not only in books, but also in paving stones, cities, and minds. In Elsterwerda, where world politics usually treads rather quietly, this place seems almost defiant. A monument that doesn't glorify, but rather reminds us. Of thinking. Of doubt. And that even great ideas will eventually stand modestly under trees – and wait for us.

In the heart of the city, where the cobblestones still echo the footsteps of past footsteps, the Protestant Church of St. Catherine rises – not loud, not ostentatious, but with the simple dignity of a building that doesn't seek to please, but rather to tell a story. And it does, with every joint in the walls, with every shadow cast under the pointed spire. The first glance belongs to the tower – hexagonal, light-colored plaster, with a roof that seems to stretch out of time. Two clocks silently gaze at the square, as if to say: Time passes differently here. Perhaps a little slower. Perhaps a little more honestly. If you turn around, you can still see the bookstore with its golden lettering and the old pharmacy, now run by Italians – a juxtaposition of eras that doesn't interfere with each other, but rather supports each other. The benches at the monument invite you to linger, and if you take a seat there, you have the church behind you and the city in front of you – or vice versa. Sometimes, when the light is low, a reddish glow falls on the wall behind the church, where an old tree stands, its branches spreading like a shield over the nave. You don't have to be religious to feel something here. It's enough to be still. St. Catherine's isn't a church that imposes itself. It's one that remains. A place between times, firmly rooted and yet light as a thought in the early evening.

Directly on the beach of the Grünewalder Lauch camping park you will find this magnificent panorama of the approximately 100 hectare lake in Brandenburg near Grünewalde on the eastern edge of the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park.