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Fish ponds Behind the fish ponds, a pollard willow avenue runs through the fields. © Wolfgang SchwartzPhoto: Wolfgang Schwartz, Rother Bergverlag
Klütz, the main town of the Klützer Winkel office, is widely visible with its 56-meter-high church tower called "Red Bishop's Mitre." At this religious center begins the circular hike to a secular architectural highlight: Bothmer Castle, one of the largest Baroque palace complexes in northern Germany. A stork shot on this estate in 1822 with an African arrow in its neck became famous in zoological books as proof of bird migration. And the builder of the castle, Imperial Count Hans Caspar von Bothmer, entered the history books as an advisor to the Hanoverian-British King George I. In London, he lodged at 10 Downing Street (until 1732), a rather modest and then run-down residence – quite different from the Klütz castle complex.
The three-aisled Klütz church was built in the 13th and 14th centuries, the choir shows Romanesque influences as the oldest element, and the granite baptismal font is said to have been imported in the 13th century by Hanseatic merchants. From the church we follow Wismarsche Street southeastwards and after the bus stop of the same name turn right onto the bike/pedestrian path. At its end, by red and white bollards, turn left and keep straight ahead: first on the bike path, then a small street (Güldenhorn) through a residential area, later a gravel path next to a meadow. Before the main road, we turn right onto the bike path and cross the road after 150 m, then a 2.5 km stretch leads us on a tree- and shrub-lined road first southeast and later south. Half a kilometer after a shelter, we turn right before the Wolfsbruch and follow the wide path along the forest edge. Forests and forestry have a long tradition here: In the Hanseatic era, the clearance villages of the region (with the
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Wolfgang Schwartz
Wolfgang Schwartz, geboren 1967 in Schleswig-Holstein, bevorzugte nach dem Studium der Geographie und Germanistik in Kiel sowie einem Volontariat als Lektor für einen Kölner Reisebuchverlag eine Tätigkeit draußen als Reiseleiter von Aktivreisen im europäischen Ausland. Seit 1994 führt er Reisegruppen zu Fuß, aber auch per Rad oder auf Langlaufskiern überwiegend durch Italien, Skandinavien, Großbritannien und im deutschsprachigen Raum. Daneben arbeitet er als Scout für einen Outdoor-Veranstalter touristische Wander-Individualprogramme aus und führt für einen Wanderreiseveranstalter Insider-Touren auf Bornholm, seinem ersten Rother-Titel. Weitere Rother-Wanderführer des in den Niederlanden lebenden Autors erschienen zu seiner Heimatregion Norddeutschland.
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