High Fläming Nature Park

There is a visitor center in Rabenstein/Fläming offering information, an interesting exhibition, a bike rental and a shop with regional products.

The park is located about 80 km southwest of Berlin and Potsdam and covers the higher parts of the Fläming hill chain.

There are few lakes, but some clear creeks and small rivers that provide a habitat for several protected species.

With the so-called "Rummeln", a form of dry valleys, the High Fläming has a unique botanical and geological feature.

In the creeks the brown trout, the white-throated dipper, the brook lamprey and the European crayfish can be found.

The regulation on the landscape conservation area "Hoher Fläming und Belziger Landschaftswiesen" of 17 November 1997 became effective on 3 December 1997.

In its present form Wiesenburg Palace is a neo-Renaissance building, but it was originally built as a medieval castle of which some elements are still preserved.

In the summer of 2007, a 17-km-long art track that connects the train stations of Belzig and Wiesenburg was opened.

In Belzig, the birthplace of the composer Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, his works are occasionally performed.

After a period of decline from 1945, in 1996 the historic building was finally restored by Potsdam-Mittelmark County in order to become the visitor center of the new nature park.

An exhibition on the upper floor of the visitor center informs about all aspects of the nature park.

In addition, there is tourist information which offers maps and leaflets with route recommendations and literature.

In the basement vaults of the Garden House there is a shop selling local products, like pottery, honey, beeswax candles, jams and jellies and fruit schnapps.

Western march orchid
Rummel close to Preußnitz
Wiesenburg Castle
Stone church in Jeserig/Fläming
Art Trail: "Unter Kiefern" by Susken Rosenthal
The visitor center