Usedom circular route

Starting in front of the “bathtub of the Berliners,” as Usedom is also called, the circular route begins in Wolgast. From here, you ride over an impressive bascule bridge across the Peenestrom to the sunny island. Beside the quiet banks of the waterway, you soon enter the mixed forest. Trees line the fine sandy beach like a green ribbon extending all the way across the Polish border to Świnoujście. On Usedom, one Baltic Sea resort follows the next. Its best-known representatives include Zinnowitz, Bansin, Heringsdorf, and Ahlbeck. Their promenades are adorned with fashionable villas and snow-white guesthouses. Over the long piers of the resorts, you can stroll as in the golden age. A good contrast is offered by the hinterland. Between the Baltic Sea and Achterwasser, you pass quaint fishing villages and reed-covered salt huts. You can enjoy a wonderful view over the island from the Streckelsberg near Koserow.

To preserve this fantastic nature, the entire island was rightfully declared a nature park. Wooded hills, small lakes, mysterious moors, and blooming rapeseed fields shape the varied landscape of the unspoiled hinterland. Those seeking peace will find it in the Lieper Winkel. On this peninsula, there are more birds than people. Artistically decorated house doors delight visitors in the old agricultural town of Usedom. And culturally, the sunny island has a lot to offer too. In summer, music festivals and the Vineta performances take place here.

At the Zecheriner bascule bridge, you must reluctantly leave the island. At the spot where the Peene flows into the Szczecin Lagoon, you might feel transported back to childhood. You ride past cows dozing in the sun and storks strutting across the meadows. Frogs croak in dense reed belts, and ducks quack in a contest. A highlight of the flatland is the church tower of Lassan.

Worth seeing: Wolgast: church with viewing platform, museum harbor, Runge House, animal park | Peenemünde: Historical-Technical Museum, Phenomena, submarine museum, toy museum | Trassenheide: butterfly garden | Zinnowitz: diving bell, Vineta performances, Amber Spa, harbor | Koserow: salt huts, festival church | Imperial resorts Bansin, Heringsdorf, and Ahlbeck | Usedom: gothic city gate, open-air theater in the city harbor | Karnin: listed railway bascule bridge

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