Hedgerow Route

The Ammerland hedgerows are valuable components of the cultural landscape. They characterize the Ammerland park landscape and run through the intensively used land like lifelines. Originally, hedgerows were created as living fences and for property demarcation. They provide a habitat for many wild animal and plant species. You can see for yourself on this approximately 34-kilometer-long route.

Highlights: 

• The eastern moors: Hankhauser, Barghorner, Loyer, and Ipwegermoor – the entire eastern section of the route is shaped by beautiful moor landscapes. The paths are paved and lead along splendid shady avenues to Wahnbek.
• Landscape window hedgerows (Wemkendorf): The observation tower “Tower of a Poet” stands amidst hedgerows and offers a view of the characteristic landscape of Wiefelstede. The hedgerows distinctly shape the Ammerland park landscape as former boundary markers.
• Rastede Castle was for a long time the residence of the counts and grand dukes of the House of Oldenburg and is still privately owned today. The building is exemplary of Oldenburg classicism, brought here by Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, and is also the most important secular building in Ammerland.
• The history of the Rastede castle park can be traced back to the time of the medieval monastery forest. After a turbulent history, the period of Rastede as a summer residence began in 1777 with the later Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig.
• Landscape window Geestrand: From the tower, you look toward the Wesermarsch. Here, the impressive height difference of up to 20 meters between the Ammerland Geest and the Weser marshland can be experienced.