uckermark III + brandenburg VI

our uckermark (UC) in brandenburg (BB) = lakes + ostriches. it is as easy as that😄. this time combined with 1 week of mobile work for me 💻

fog over lake sabinensee in the early morning. willmine, UC

the picture is from our last visit in 2020. i like it more than the latest photos 😃

our long journey from munich? we've divided this 720 km + 7.5 h trip in 5 nice + interesting stages and spent 3 nights on the road (pls try to make all calculations needed by yourself, will you?):

• spa bad berneck in bavaria
• bitterfeld in sachsen-anhalt
• schkopau castle in sachsen-anhalt at the return trip (the same link as for bitterfeld)

in the list below you will find our stops in brandenburg (BB) this time. why so many after we have reached 'our' final destination, the ostrich farm rätz? well, there are so few people here in the uckermark area that it is hard to find an open restaurant in the evenings. as we have had self-catering & farm food during the day, we've decided to drive 3 times approx 25 km to angermünde + templin + prenzlau just to get s.th. regional to eat. okay, let's define a greek restaurant as a regional sightseeing opportunity, too. as we knew already templin from a former visit, we enjoyed the chance to explore the other 2 destinations angermünde + prenzlau. dear BB, here we go:

• beelitz-heilstätten ~ beautiful former sanitariums for lung diseases south of berlin in a nice forest. today are some still in use, few others are slowly reconstructed
• lake werbellinsee ~ altenhof
• nice restaurant 'alte fischerei' at or even over the lake (wooden terrace)
• heaven & hell! 55 €uro fine for parking at some strip behind the overfilled parking area => quite an expensive lunch & swimming break 😇
• historical uckermark area, but not longer in the current administrative district UC
• historical (emperor) kaiser wilhelm II train station joachimsthal ~ located in the historical uckermark area, but not longer in the current administrative district UC
• berkenlatten, ostrich farm rätz (UC) ~ our final destination 🐋🐓🍀
• fredenwalde ~ small village with interesting oddity! many houses had plates with old pictures + their history, like e.g. a former smithy, a guest house etc.  ... there was also a castle like manor-house, a not reconstructed church with a former timber-wooded tower, a community change & donate & reuse 'shop' and somewhere at the hill a really old (8,000 years?) and allegedly oldest cemetery in germany, which we did not find this time. maybe in 2024, who knows?
• lake sabinensee in willmine, close to berkenlatten = our daily swimming exercise before breakfast 
• gerswalde 
• angermünde + lake mündesee
• like-minded people protesting against corona measures & government
• about 50 €uro fine for driving too fast in a 30 km/h zone
• templin + lake templiner stadtsee
• prenzlau + lake unteruckersee ~ sad fucked up WWII victim as in april 1945 were 85% of the city center completely destroyed ... and not much was rebuilt since then
• berlin ~ we basically just drove through in both directions and stopped just for a coffee + pee somewhere in the north-western part of the city

UC. both pictures made by a colleague of mine, ernestine. nice, arent they?

wanna enjoy also few of my pictures? here we go ...

beelitz-heilstätten. train station (above) + sanatoriums (below)

arts exposition out there, beelitz-heilstätten

one of the active sanatoriums / clinics

lake werbellinsee at altenhof

restaurant alte fischerei

55 €uro fine for standing here?!?

fickt-euch-allee (fuck yourself boulevard). fuck yourself, lake werbellinsee!

historical (emperor) kaiser wilhelm II train station in joachimsthal

germany 1871 - 1918

ostrich farm rätz in berkenlatten, UC

barefoot trail at the ostrich farm rätz

my office at the ostrich farm rätz in berkenlatten

meow, meow! 🐱

to swim in the lake sabinensee before breakfast was our 1st activity every morning.

lake sabinensee, willmine, UC

gerswalde

gerswalde

gerswalde

fredenwalde

fredenwalde, mr. stork's house 🐥

timber-wooded houses in angermünde, UC

the administartion of angermünde (like all puppet state germany as a part of the 'collective west') is pro ukraine. a month later also pro genocide on palestinians in gaza. and the people in the west? the most are pro peace, you know? but yes, those who consume dirty MSM often believe putin is the enemy and murder of tens of thousands nurslings 'hamas terrorists' and baby 'hamas terrorists' is self defence. the waste majority of people who think for themselves are agains western neocolonialism and wars and few of us also protest against the western so called 'elites' and real scum like at munich's MSC.

a small anti-corona + anti-government demo at the market square in angermünde will start soon

angermünde, 1881 + yyyy

restaurant zum hungerstein, angermünde. there is a saying abt the 

hunger stone 'hungerstein' inside the lake mündesee, you know?

angermünde, the church

i liked the timber-wooded houses in angermünde

somewhere on the road ...

templin, UC

templin

so true, isnt it?

S. geht um die Wurst.

prenzlau, UC

the 2nd (and last?) historical building in prenzlau = pension mitteltorturm 

prenzlau's outer borough at the lake unteruckersee

more pictures (soon) here.

our 1st visit to uckermark in 2018 here.

our 2nd visit to uckermark in 2020 here.

spa bad berneck, BY

bad berneck, a north bavarian fresh air spa in the fichtelgebirge mountains was our one night stop at our way to the north. even the czech unesco heritage spa franzensbad, which we've visited in november, is less than 1 hour away by car. our final destination this time? the lovely ostrich farm in the uckermark, which is approx 1h north of berlin ...

bavaria aka bayern is beautiful, you know? i will bespeak s.th. important to you. after 30+ years here, I💖bayern (BY) .

even if we didnt stay long, we've taken enough time to visit the spa area, the castle ruins, the market square and even swum in the nearby lake goldbergsee (=golden hill lake). it was cold and too deep, so i couldnt find any gold nuggets there and thus was forced to come back to my office job at BMW after the summer holidays 🍀🚗😁

enjoy my memories:

timber-framed houses in bad berneck, market square

our nice hotel lindenmühle (linden mill)

jean paul (1763-1825), a bavarian poet with a completely french name

what a nice flowers 🌷 at the ölschnitz river

the spa area with the castle ruins at the hill

market square

except for its tower, the 2nd castle is a ruin, too

bad berneck as seen from the castle's tower hill

back to market square

lake goldbergsee (=golden hill lake) on the way to the north

very, very few more pictures here.