The best road cycling routes around Großer Bornhorster Lake

The road leads through a lot of countryside along countless farms, with almost no car traffic (at least on Saturday afternoon) The asphalt is semi, yet a very beautiful path.

Rastede Castle is the first secular neoclassical building in the Oldenburg region.

Nice bike path to ride at speed.

Amidst the modern ugliness that has arisen all around the paths leading here, the palace has a refreshingly "old-fashioned" feel, and the palace park is filled with numerous impressive trees. Do you only know thuja hedges as ugly property fences? In the palace's listed park, the thuja trees will show you how impressive and magnificent they can actually look! By the way: Thuja trees were introduced to Germania by the Romans because they wanted to see how well they grew there and whether the wood could be used for any beneficial purpose. Incidentally, the plant is poisonous and can cause skin rashes.

nice 🏰. there is also a cycle path that goes past where you can take good photos.

The place Loy first appears as "Loyge" in 1059 in the founding document of St. Ulrich's Church in Rastede. From 1275 onwards, a ministerial family called "von der Loy" is documented. The castle may have been built at this time. However, it is not documented until 1390, when a squire named Wynand called himself "van der Loye" after his castle. In the first half of the 15th century, the squires of Bardewisch and in 1450 the Lords of Reeken owned it, who owned it in 1516 as a fief of the Rastede Monastery and in 1557 as a fief of the County of Oldenburg. At the beginning of the 16th century, the complex was burned down and rebuilt as an estate in the second half of the 16th century. The fortifications were removed in the process. The estate changed hands several times until it was acquired in 1874 by the later Privy Councillor Funch, whose descendants still own it today.

History The town of Loy first appears as "Loyge" in 1059 in the founding document of St. Ulrich's Church in Rastede. From 1275 onwards, a ministerial family called "von der Loy" is documented. The castle may have been built at this time. However, it is only documented for the year 1390, when a squire named Wynand called himself "van der Loye" after his castle. In the first half of the 15th century, the squires of Bardewisch and in 1450 the lords of Reeken owned it, who owned it in 1516 as a fief of the Rastede monastery and in 1557 as a fief of the county of Oldenburg. At the beginning of the 16th century, the complex was burned down and rebuilt as an estate in the second half of the 16th century. The fortifications were removed. The estate changed hands several times until it was acquired in 1874 by the later Privy Councillor Funch, whose descendants still own it today.

Palais Rastede The origins of the palace lie in a country house that was converted for Detlef Hans Graf von Schmettau after 1788. Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig acquired the building in 1822 to convert it into a hereditary prince's palace. Nestled in a small park in the style of an English landscape garden, the palace is located opposite Rastede Castle. The ensemble, which includes several outbuildings and the surrounding palace garden, is one of the most important cultural monuments in the Oldenburg region and is therefore also one of the most representative buildings in the Ammerland district. After the Second World War, the palace was initially used to house Canadian soldiers and then refugees from the German eastern territories. The main and outbuildings were later rented out. Since the 1970s, the municipality of Rastede has leased the palace and, as time went on, increasingly more parts of the surrounding grounds.