The best walks and hikes around Pölitz

The Süderbeste meanders picturesquely through the Sattenfelder Forst. Infos: * The first 🅿️ on Bahnhofstraße in the east of Sattenfelde that we headed for was a construction site and therefore not usable. The next 🅿️ further along the road was good 👉🏽 it's worth zooming in on the map as much as possible. * The Lasbek stud farm on the Mühlenteich marks the way as "not public". 👉🏽 We regretted this but respected it 👉🏽 note the blocked symbol on the map.

One of the many rest areas along the railway cycle paths in Stormarn

The manor house in Treuholz, built in 1904, is a real gem. The facade with its artistic ornaments was recently renovated. The popular family film series of the 1960s, "Immenhof re-filmed" was filmed in Treuholz between 1993 and 1995. The name Treuholz means that the forest area in question is subordinate to another estate, i.e. "loyal". This was to continue in modern times: In the 18th century, a farm belonging to the Rethwisch estate existed here, then a Holstein-Plön farm. In 1770, after a parceling, the original plot became an independent hereditary leasehold, which later became the Treuholz estate. It has seen over 15 owners in the 200 years up to the present day. Treuholz even had a train station from 1890. The landowner Ferdinand Lind had ensured that the line was laid out this way. A restaurant, post office, grocery store and a smokehouse settled around the station. In 1975, the Oldesloe-Ratzeburg line was closed. In 1902, the old, uninsured Manor house. Owner Paul Adolph Oppenheim had to sell. Two years later, the new owner Gustav Albrecht had the current manor house built in the neo-baroque style with Art Nouveau elements. https://www.kreis-stormarn.de/freizeit-und-tourismus/herrenhaeuser/treuholz.html

The Treuholz station was located on the so-called Kaiserbahn, a single-track railway line from Bad Oldesloe via Ratzeburg to Hagenow-Land in Mecklenburg. The line was opened in 1897 and is said to have been built at the instigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II, because the Kaiser wanted a shorter route for his journeys from Berlin to the naval base Kiel than the one via Lübeck or Hamburg. With the drawing of borders after the Second World War, the line was interrupted and became meaningless. Passenger transport was discontinued in 1962, and freight transport (mainly sugar beet) was abandoned in 1971. The railway embankment was dismantled shortly thereafter, so that the course of the line can only be discerned at individual bends. Between Siebenbäumen and Berkenthin, a section is still used as a cycle path.

The paved path is the historic access route to the train station. The red brick building with 3 windows per floor is the former train station building. You stand there on the side of the building facing away from the former track; the "Treuholz" station sign was probably moved to the other side at some point. The other red brick building with 5 windows in a row was once the residential building of the "railway officials". The green strip with wild vegetation that you can see from the street to the south of the buildings still marks a small piece of the railway embankment; everything on the adjacent arable land has long since been leveled.

The Treuholz estate originated as the manor farm of the Rethwisch estate and in 1671 became a Vorwerk (outlying farm) of the Holstein-Plön micro-duchy of Rethwisch, which was dissolved again as early as 1729. With the parcelling around 1770, the Treuholz estate became an independent hereditary leasehold farm in family ownership. The manor farm was one of the filming locations for a 19-part ZDF remake of the Immenhof films from the 1950s and 1970s in 1993-1995.

Yes, nice view for the nature lover. And for those who prefer to drive on unpaved roads, I suggest this route: https://www.komoot.de/highlight/5946079

The "Schweinchen" is a signpost on the "Schweinchen-Weg", one of the marked municipal paths in the municipality of Rethwischdorf. "Piggy Way" Rethwischdorf - Treuholz (Hof Dohrendorf) - Kiefholz (5km, walking time approx. 1 hour 20 minutes) The piggy trail starts at the village square by the lime tree in Rethwischdorf. From there it goes up the Kirchberg (Landesstraße L 87) past the church, the cemetery and the Fuhlenpott to Treuholz. There it goes approx. 250 meters behind the "Hof Dohrendorf" left up to a path that leads from here along the bend to the street "Kiefholz". Shortly before the end, a bank invites you to take a break. Here you turn left and continue past the Kiefholz and 400 meters later turn left again at the Altenweide/Schlagenweg junction, sharp left into the Schlagenweg, past the two wind turbines until you reach the B 208 after a right-hand bend. After crossing it, turn left on the combined footpath and cycle path along the B 208 back to Rethwischdorf and the starting point. See also: https://www.komoot.de/tour/864551510