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Lubbenau and Lehde?

HI
We will be traveling to Berlin and have seen a wonderful loop walk that incorporates Lubbenau and Lehde. Is this possible in two weeks? Will we be able to walk on these trails?
Looking for something a little different from the city atmosphere that some of the other day trips have.
If you advise against, recommendations for a off the beaten path side trip from Berlin that we can get to by train.
Thank you

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Is this possible in two weeks? Will we be able to walk on these
trails?

I do not understand the question. Do you mean if you can do a day trip to Spreewald? And why you shall not be able to walk the trails in Spreewald?

Spreewald is quite common destination, so not so much off beaten track. Do not miss to taste a gurken. Nature parks Märkische Schweiz, Hoher Fläming and Uckermark are less known to tourists. Bad Saarow is for locals a well-known area to stay.

In general you can have dozens of day trips not focussing on city atmosphere. In Berlin you can do walks through Grunewald or Müggelberge to really get off, also Schlachtensee and Wannsee are popular green day trips within Berlin.

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Hi
We will be in Berlin next week. Will the trails be open? Are they covered in snow?

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I'm confused by your reference to 2 weeks; did you mean 2 hours? Google Maps shows a walking time of about an hour between Lubbenau and Lehde, though that may be along roads rather than the walking paths you would prefer.

I made a day-trip to Lubbenau in 2015. I did very little walking because of a recent ankle injury, but I enjoyed the area. I think you'll find it a nice change from urban Berlin if you can tear yourself away from the city.

I had a fairly long walk (perhaps 3/4 mile) from the Lubbenau railroad station to the Hauptspree where I took my boat trip, so if you have limited time, check on how far you'll need to walk to pick up your hiking path.

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Weather-wise I was in Lübbenau in July, only one time there as a day trip. That was in 1999.

Sociologically and historically, I found it fascinating in visiting and exploring the town. . Outside of Berlin and Potsdam I had never gone into the interior of Brandenburg, the former Mark Brandenburg. This was the first time, ran across a plaque going back to the crucial year of 1813 when the Prussians aided by the Russians were trying to drive out Napoleon. Still, the Prussians lost the first round in 1813.

No doubt in the last 20 years the infrastructure of Lübbenau has changed, refurbished, etc etc if Potsdam is an example of that, seeing the town in 1987 during the commie days in contrast to two decades after, sort of like the title of A. Dumas novel, "Vingt-ans Après" (Twenty Years After)

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If you rather choose somewhere else in the Greater Berlin area, I would choose Neuruppin, the birthplace of Germany's greatest novelist in the Age of Realism, or Rheinsberg, There is also Lutherstadt Wittenberg, or if you want to see some esoteric history museums, then I would suggest on WW2 go to Seelow, (take the regional train to Frankfurt an der Oder, then the S-Bahn to Seelow to the battlefield memorial and museum site.

Another place is Neuhardenberg, the former estate and Museum on the Resistance in WW2 pertaining to the Hardenbergs, this nobility (Junker) family. These places are eye-openers, not only historically, but culturally and sociologically, even more meaningful when you read the German.