Former Border Patrol Path – View of the Elbe River loop from Horst
Former Border Patrol Path – View of the Elbe River loop from Horst
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Former Border Patrol Path – View of the Elbe River loop from Horst
03:10
12.1km
100m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 23, 2026
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Your route passes through protected areas
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Naturschutzgebiet Elbhang-Vierwald
Biosphärenreservat Flusslandschaft Elbe - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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Bus stop
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1.79 km
Former Border Patrol Path
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1.84 km
View of the Elbe River
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2.36 km
Elbhang-Vierwald Nature Reserve
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4.76 km
View of the Sude River Mouth
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The Sude is an 85 kilometer long, right (eastern) tributary of the Elbe in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Lower Saxony
The Sude rises in a forest near the Black Moor between Renzow and Groß Welzin and from there crosses the Dümmersee to the east. The water then flows away in a southerly direction. Near Bandenitz it crosses under the federal highway 24. It flows past Hagenow to the east.
The river then runs in a fairly elongated right-hand arc to the west, north past Lübtheen and crosses the Lower Saxon community of Amt Neuhaus.
Finally, the Sude flows west of Boizenburg/Elbe at Elbe river kilometer 559.52 into the Elbe, which in this area is the border river with Lower Saxony.
From 1842 onwards, the Sude flowed into the Elbe at kilometer 557 near Gothmann. The course was relocated to the Boizenburg harbor around 1983, so that the Boize became a tributary of the Sude.
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4.90 km
Elwkieker Lookout and Stairs
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The official name is Elbberg and Elbhang - so that's how it is.
The staircase is a stable construction and leads you up and down the Elbe slope very well. It certainly wasn't cheap, but it was worth it. I like it very much.
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5.00 km
View of the confluence of the Boize and Sude rivers
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The Boize rises west of the Schaalsee and the Seedorfer Kuechensee in the east of Schleswig-Holstein near the village Seedorf at a height of about 40 m above sea level. NHN in a wooded area called Birkenort. From here, the boize runs in a southerly direction initially very winding, until it forms the border between Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on a section east of Gudow.
On Mecklenburgian territory, the largely straightened Boize under Lüttow-Valluhn underpasses the Federal Highway 24 and runs parallel to the Federal Highway 195. In Boizenburg / Elbe, the Boize feeds a ring-shaped ditch system around the city center with ramparts. The last meters of the river are developed as a port facility, at which also the old Elbewerft Boizenburgs was. Here at the northern tip of the biosphere reserve Flusslandschaft Elbe-Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Boize flows into the Sude, which itself flows into the Elbe after a few meters on the right.
The mouth of the Sude was relocated in 1983 from the place Gothmann in the Boizenburg port entrance, so that the Boize became the tributary of the Sude. Previously, the bogee flowed directly into the Elbe.
The source of the Boize lies to the south of the North Sea Baltic Sea watershed, because while the water reaches the North Sea via the Sude and Elbe, the Ratzeburg Lake, which lies just a few kilometers north of the source, drains into the Baltic Sea via the Wakenitz. Tributaries of the Boize include the Grenzgraben Klein-Zecher, the Gudower Grenzgraben, the Waldmoorbach, the Färbergraben and numerous drainage ditches.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boize
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5.10 km
Elwkieker Observation Tower – View of the Elbe and Boizenburg
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EinFlussReich Outdoor Exhibition
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Living on a river like the Elbe has many advantages that people have used for centuries. At the same time, they had to protect themselves from the dangers of flooding and built dikes and dams.
The open-air exhibition EinFlussReich, in the immediate vicinity of the well-known Elwkieker observation tower, provides information about the topic of flooding with playful content. You can find out how people experienced the floods on the Elbe, how effective flood protection is, and which flood protection projects have already been implemented on the Elbe. Using the interactive exhibition elements, you can become a decision-maker yourself and see whether the flood measures help protect Boizenburg from flooding.
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12.1 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
6.16 km
4.54 km
1.04 km
283 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
5.10 km
2.76 km
1.40 km
1.23 km
807 m
733 m
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