Grünewalder Lauch – Grünewalder Lauch South-West Bank loop from Plessa

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Grünewalder Lauch – Grünewalder Lauch South-West Bank loop from Plessa

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Grünewalder Lauch – Grünewalder Lauch South-West Bank loop from Plessa

04:40

18.2km

60m

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: August 17, 2026

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Your route passes through a protected area

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Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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5.88 km

Birch Forest in Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft

Highlight • Forest

6.75 km

Grünewalder Lauch

Highlight • Lake

A beautiful open beach to refresh yourself. There is also a campsite right by the lake.

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7.74 km

Grünewalder Lauch — Lakeside View

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Sufficient seating along the way. There is a normal swimming beach, a dog beach and a nudist beach. The kids liked the big stones to climb on.

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7.75 km

Benches With a View of the Lake

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8.63 km

Lake Grünewalder Lauch

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Here you always have a great view of the water.

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8.97 km

View of the Grünewalder Lauch

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Grünewalder Lauch, a beautiful lake and the former Plessa-Lauch opencast mine.
Many swimming opportunities.
More information: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnewalder_Lauch and de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnewalde_(Lauchhammer)

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9.32 km

Beach

10.8 km

Grünewalder Lauch South-West Bank

Highlight • Lake

Here you always have a great view of the water.

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18.2 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

15.2 km

1.95 km

1.14 km

Surfaces

10.9 km

2.85 km

2.78 km

904 m

777 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 16 October

14°C

8°C

68 %

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Comments

April 6, 2026,Ostermontagstour von Plessa rund um Seewaldsee und Grünewalder Lauch

We start our tour around 10:20 AM at the Plessa stop and initially follow the path along the railway. We pass the former administrative building and see the Schinkenteich on the other side of the railway. The next lake is the Restloch 107, also named Red Lake due to its coloration from toxic substances like iron and sulfates. The Floßgraben, …

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April 6, 2026,Rund um Seewaldsee und Grünewalder Lauch

Here I refer to the explanations of @Tschaika 🐼🌦🥾 ... this tour can hardly be described better
komoot.de/tour/2868229926?ref=atd

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August 31, 2025,🇩🇪 Grünewalder Lauch 🥳 > Roter See 😍, Sanddünen 🥰 und Baden 🌤️ 🕉️🏊🏻‍♀️🍀

While searching for the parking space I'd found during my tour planning, I spent what felt like an hour hopping through the forest on forest and meadow paths that were exclusively for forestry vehicles 🐌 😒.
At some point, I had enough, was glad to be back in civilization, and drove to the 🅿️ campsite in Grünewald, which turned out …

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June 14, 2025,Seewaldsee, Sanddünen, Grünewalder Lauch und Roter See

Today we drove a little further, to Grünewald in the Niederlausitzer Heide. We started at the paid parking lot (€1 per hour) at the "Grünewalder Lauch" camping park. With views of the Grünewalder Lauch and the Seewaldsee, we continued through the beautiful countryside on lovely hiking trails to the Plessa sand dunes. We then returned through the Seewald forest to …

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October 7, 2024,Seewaldsee, Sanddünen, Grünwalder Lauch und Roter See

The Seewald nature reserve is located in the municipality of Grünewalde in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in Brandenburg.
The area was declared a nature reserve in 1981 and 2007. The nature reserve with the Seewaldsee is around 265 hectares in size and extends southwest of Grünwalde. On the northern edge, the Grünwalder Lauch, a lake of around 100 hectares, borders the …

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