Easy hikes and walks around Witzeeze

If you visit the community center, it's worth taking a look at current exhibitions or events beforehand. The building regularly hosts changing thematic exhibitions (e.g. on history or social issues), which are often freely accessible. Events and citizen appointments are also offered there – so sometimes there's more to the building than meets the eye at first glance.

A true eye-catcher

The community center is important for the region and its architecture is pleasing to the eye.

What justifies this as a “highlight”?

The post office building, which is worth seeing and was built in 1950 and is now a listed building, is located at Lauenburger Strasse 25. It is a wide, two-storey brick building with sandstone elements, with a gable end and eaves cornice and hipped roof. The post office courtyard consists of the main building, a garage at the back and the paved courtyard with a brick wall. It is a simple post-war building in functional forms with an arcade-like corner of the building above a sloped sandstone pillar, and the entrance area can be reached via a sandstone staircase. It has seven axes on the long side and five axes on the narrow side facing the street on the upper floor, with vertical window formats with vertical lintels. It is different on the ground floor, where there is a protruding, multi-part stained glass window with the municipal coat of arms to the southeast. On the street side, the period lettering "POST OFFICE" is in delicate metal letters. The northwest side is simply designed, with a dormer window and raised access axis. The garage is a simple, single-storey brick building with a gable roof and six access gates; parts of the historic small paving stones have been preserved. The characteristic post office building from the early post-war period follows the conservative design language of the 1930s and 1940s. The post office as a functional building expresses Büchen's prominent role in the regional context. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kulturdenkmale_in_B%C3%BCchen https://efi2.schleswig-holstein.de/dish/dish_suche/html/denkmalErgebnisSeite.html?objektidEingabe=37509

The transformer station at the intersection of Möllner Straße and Heideweg in Büchen attracts attention. A lively and cheerful scene refers to the nearby forest swimming pool in Büchen. What is special: the bathers are a whole flock of small animals that have gathered there for a happy outing. Geese, storks, beavers and many more meet there, laden with picnic baskets, beach towels, handcarts and swimming rings. The facade painting, which spans all four walls, is a commissioned work by the company art-EFX, which has already individually worked on a large number of gray facades. The company art-EFX from Potsdam carries out artistic facade designs for exterior and interior areas as commissioned work. Data on the work: art-EFX: Waldschwimmbad Büchen (2013, mural) Transformer station, Möllner Straße / Heideweg, 21514 Büchen Route planner: 53.48822, 10.6147 https://sh-kunst.de/art-efx-waldschwimmbad-buechen/

As is the case along the entire Elbe-Lübeck Canal, here in Büchen there is an "endlessly long", beautiful hiking trail along the canal, which is also very suitable for cycling.

This interesting artwork is located in Büchen on Pötrauer Straße, near the railway underpass, next to the school complex. You can find more information and photos here: https://www.google.com/maps