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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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Boizenburg/Elbe

View of the Sude River Mouth – View of the Elbe River loop from Boizenburg/Elbe

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Germany

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Ludwigslust-Parchim

Boizenburg/Elbe

View of the Sude River Mouth – View of the Elbe River loop from Boizenburg/Elbe

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View of the Sude River Mouth – View of the Elbe River loop from Boizenburg/Elbe

04:36

17.7km

120m

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: May 6, 2026

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Naturschutzgebiet Elbhang-Vierwald

Biosphärenreservat Flusslandschaft Elbe - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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1.22 km

Twelve Apostles Viewpoint Boizenburg

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From the historical site "12 Apostles" you have fantastic views of the Elbe valley.
According to historical tradition, the “Twelve Apostles” were planted at this location to honor French officers who were buried here after the Napoleonic Wars. It is also said that the “Twelve Apostles” represent a connection to the Prussian-Austrian wars of 1866. 12 posts were set up here to prevent the enemy from crossing the Elbe.” After 1945, road salt was stored at the “12 Apostles” which caused the trees to die. Where the “12 Apostles” once stood, twelve young linden trees were planted in 1996 and park benches were set up.
umlandscout.de/ort/geschichte-statte-12-apostel

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1.42 km

Elbbergmuseum Boizenburg – Museum of the Inner German Border and Forced Labor Camp

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At the entrance to Boizenburg, at the former Fernstrasse 5, buildings have been preserved that were of very different significance for the city's history in the 20th century.
A barrack bears witness to a former satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, where four hundred female Jewish prisoners from Hungary were interned in 1944/45 who had to do forced labor in the armaments production of the neighboring Elbe shipyard. In this only surviving building of the former Boizenburg subcamp, an exhibition on the fate of the prisoners and on forced labor on the Elbe shipyard is shown during the summer months.
The two buildings of the former transit checkpoint four are only a few meters away. From 1973 to 1990, East German police controlled car traffic in the direction of the border and into the restricted border area. Around the former tower of the checkpoint, another exhibition documents the history of the inner-German border in the Hagenow district. A sound installation in the tower refers to life in the restricted area, to escape and forced resettlement.

Source and further information:

boizenburg.de/portal/seiten/elbbergmuseum-900000027-28851.html

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1.72 km

EinFlussReich Outdoor Exhibition

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A very interesting exhibition that shows how far the Elbe could flood the country if the dikes could not withstand the water pressure during floods.
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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1.84 km

View of the confluence of the Boize and Sude rivers

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Here the boize flows into the sude. Actually, it looks like the leaner here is flowing into the boize, but it's the other way round. The Boize is a 30 kilometer tributary of the 85 kilometers much longer Sude.
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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2.02 km

View of the Sude River Mouth

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From here you can clearly see how the Sude flows into the Elbe.
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.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sude

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3.09 km

Former Inner-German Border – Green Belt

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This is where "the green belt" runs, the former east / west borders between Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg Western Pomerania. Along with the old border towers, the slab path and concrete pillars are references to the past division of Germany.

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