Easy hikes and walks around Groß Boden

The Hagenow Land–Bad Oldesloe railway line (also called Kaiserbahn or Kaiserstrecke) is a partially disused railway line in the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. It connected the towns of Hagenow, Ratzeburg, and Bad Oldesloe and, with its continuation via Bad Segeberg and Neumünster, formed the shortest rail link between Berlin and Kiel.

Steinhorster Wald

FeRo had really terrible weather conditions and still made a recommendation. And rightly so! I was there in September 2024 and had fantastic and sunny early autumn weather - pure enjoyment. My route recommendations away from the straight "forest highways": Bodener Zuschlag https://www.komoot.com/de-de/highlight/7009315 Labenzer Zuschlag https://www.komoot.com/de-de/highlight/6596457 Schürensöhler Zuschlag https://www.komoot.com/de-de/highlight/7006683

It is the picturesque Wehrenteich, which is fed by the Wehrenbek. It is now a refuge for water birds and amphibians. It is completely surrounded by forest and is only accessible to visitors at this one point.

The manor house in Treuholz, built in 1904, is a real gem. The facade with its artistic ornaments was recently renovated. The popular family film series of the 1960s, "Immenhof re-filmed" was filmed in Treuholz between 1993 and 1995. The name Treuholz means that the forest area in question is subordinate to another estate, i.e. "loyal". This was to continue in modern times: In the 18th century, a farm belonging to the Rethwisch estate existed here, then a Holstein-Plön farm. In 1770, after a parceling, the original plot became an independent hereditary leasehold, which later became the Treuholz estate. It has seen over 15 owners in the 200 years up to the present day. Treuholz even had a train station from 1890. The landowner Ferdinand Lind had ensured that the line was laid out this way. A restaurant, post office, grocery store and a smokehouse settled around the station. In 1975, the Oldesloe-Ratzeburg line was closed. In 1902, the old, uninsured Manor house. Owner Paul Adolph Oppenheim had to sell. Two years later, the new owner Gustav Albrecht had the current manor house built in the neo-baroque style with Art Nouveau elements. https://www.kreis-stormarn.de/freizeit-und-tourismus/herrenhaeuser/treuholz.html

The Treuholz station was located on the so-called Kaiserbahn, a single-track railway line from Bad Oldesloe via Ratzeburg to Hagenow-Land in Mecklenburg. The line was opened in 1897 and is said to have been built at the instigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II, because the Kaiser wanted a shorter route for his journeys from Berlin to the naval base Kiel than the one via Lübeck or Hamburg. With the drawing of borders after the Second World War, the line was interrupted and became meaningless. Passenger transport was discontinued in 1962, and freight transport (mainly sugar beet) was abandoned in 1971. The railway embankment was dismantled shortly thereafter, so that the course of the line can only be discerned at individual bends. Between Siebenbäumen and Berkenthin, a section is still used as a cycle path.

The paved path is the historic access route to the train station. The red brick building with 3 windows per floor is the former train station building. You stand there on the side of the building facing away from the former track; the "Treuholz" station sign was probably moved to the other side at some point. The other red brick building with 5 windows in a row was once the residential building of the "railway officials". The green strip with wild vegetation that you can see from the street to the south of the buildings still marks a small piece of the railway embankment; everything on the adjacent arable land has long since been leveled.

The Treuholz estate originated as the manor farm of the Rethwisch estate and in 1671 became a Vorwerk (outlying farm) of the Holstein-Plön micro-duchy of Rethwisch, which was dissolved again as early as 1729. With the parcelling around 1770, the Treuholz estate became an independent hereditary leasehold farm in family ownership. The manor farm was one of the filming locations for a 19-part ZDF remake of the Immenhof films from the 1950s and 1970s in 1993-1995.