Audio Guide Lübbenau

Lübbenau

Places researched in this city

A selection of the 16 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.

• Waterway network
• Baroque church
• Historic castle
• Open-air museum
• Slavic fort
• Island village

• 01

  The Spreewald Canals

  Formed by glacial meltwater roughly 15,000 years ago, this 1,500-kilometre web of channels was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1991 and shelters over 5,000 species. For centuries these waterways were the only roads into settlements like Lehde and Leipe, with cucumbers delivered by punt boat to markets as far as Berlin.

• 02

  Lübbenau Castle

  The Lynar family held this estate for over 300 years, reshaping a medieval water castle into a Renaissance mansion around 1600 and then into its present neoclassical form between 1817 and 1820. In 1839, two Neo-Romanesque towers were added, giving the building the layered look it still carries today.

• 03

  St. Nicholas Church Lübbenau

  The Baroque tower stands 60 metres tall, yet the entire structure rests not on solid ground but on alder tree trunks driven into the marshy soil, a detail that also explains why the building has developed a slight lean since its construction between 1738 and 1741.

• 04

  Great Spreewald Harbor Lübbenau

  In 1859, the writer Theodor Fontane set off on his first punt-boat journey through the Spreewald from this very spot, long before it became the main tourist gateway it is today. The first boatmen's association was formally established here on 6 February 1908, organising the local tradition that still defines the town.

• 05

  Slavic Fort Raddusch

  The original ring fort was built by the Lusitian Slavs around 880 AD as part of a network of roughly 40 to 50 circular fortifications raised against Saxon pressure, then abandoned after the Lusizi were subjugated in 963 AD. The full-scale reconstruction, completed in 2003 using oak timber and clay, sits on the exact archaeological footprint of the original.

• 06

  Wotschofska

  During the Thirty Years' War, local Spreewald inhabitants used this flood-safe island as a hiding place, a function its dense alder forest and isolated waterways made unusually effective. In 1935, the Nazi regime renamed it, though the original Lower Sorbian name, meaning simply 'island,' was eventually restored.

• 07

  Spreewald Museum Lübbenau (Gatehouse)

  Above the archway of this 1850 brick gatehouse hangs a whale jawbone that has been there since the 18th century, serving as an informal landmark long before the building became a museum in 1999. The structure also did time as a town hall, a court, and a jail before its current role as keeper of regional history.

• 08

  9 more places to discover

  In the Parroo app