Tourist Information Centre
The friendly, expert staff of the tourist information centre can be found in the former fireside room of the rebuilt castle manor. Join experienced guides to learn all about the 800-year-old walls and their unique history. Visit the former brewery, the manor, the castle tower, the half-timbered house and the courtyard with its modern open-air stage. Storkow Castle is an ideal starting-point for cycle tours, hikes and excursions in a region which boasts the Groß Schauen lake district and the Dahme-Heideseen nature reserve.
We are pleased to give you help and advice for your visit to our town.
CONTACT
Tourist Information Centre Storkow
Schloßstraße 6
15859 Storkow (Mark)
Tel.: +4933678/73108
Fax: +4933678/73229
Email: tourismus(@)storkow.de
Monday to Sunday
10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Storkow Castle
After a ten-year period of reconstruction work, visitors can now (from 2009) look around the Old and New Castle, the old tower, the half-timbered house and the castle courtyard with its thick walls and a modern open-air stage. Particularly worth a visit is the permanent exhibition, entitled “Humanity and Nature – a Journey through Time”.
The inland dunes
From the Waltersberge, you can climb up to some of the largest inland dunes in Brandenburg. Created 8,000 to 10,000 years ago and inhabited by rare steppe plants, their height of 36 metres rivals that of the church tower in the centre of Storkow. The summit affords a fantastic panoramic view of expansive woodlands, meadows and, last but not least, Lake Storkow.
The market square and old town
The old town and the market square, together with the narrow streets running off it, form the historic town centre. The Oak of Peace and the hundred-year-old lime trees around the market square are witnesses to a rich and varied past. An old stationary steam engine, which provided the town with electricity from 1897, can be found by the mill stream. The road leads on to the 14th-century church with its 36-metre high tower. Continuing along the road, you reach the Altstadtschule, the old town’s primary school, which is over 150 years old. The canal separates the old town from Heinrich-Heine-Straße, a former weavers’ colony. It has been possible to reconstruct the old bascule bridge across the canal following the original model.
Hubertushöhe hunting lodge
A short walk to Hubertushöhe is well worth the effort. The journey takes you from the castle, through the district of Karlslust and, for a time, right along the shore of Lake Storkow. Halfway along the lake, there stands – like a fairytale castle – Hubertushöhe hunting lodge, commissioned by the financier Georg von Büxenstein around the year 1900. Nowadays, the lodge is an exclusive luxury hotel and restaurant with facilities for conferences and banquets.
The Heinz Sielmann Nature Reserve, Groß Schauen
The chain of lakes near Groß Schauen is made up of the Schaplowsee, the Groß Schauener See and the Große Wochowsee, as well as the Selchower See, the Schweriner See and the Bugker See. It is one of the most important chains of shallow-water lakes in Europe, a place where threatened plant and animal species can live in peace. The entire area was declared a protected nature reserve in April 2000 and was acquired by the Heinz Sielmann Foundation in January 2002.
Exhibition – Didi’s world record between Neu Boston and Philadelphia
Didi’s exhibition is a unique chance for visitors to see over 120 curiosities from the world of cycling. These include bicycles which have appeared in the Guinness Book of Records and bicycles which have been ridden by leading figures from the world of sport, showbusiness and politics, not to mention the largest rickshaw and the weirdest bicycle in the world. At Didi’s you will also find time capsules, newspaper cuttings and souvenirs from the Tour de France and other cycle races, world championships and Olympic Games. For more on Didi, visit www.tourteufel.de (in German).