Top 20 Lakes around Kogel

Stintenburg. A sea eagle circles over deep blue water, the trees to the left and right of the cobblestone avenue cast thick shadows, and once you cross the small bridge to the island in the Schaalsee, see the red bridge house on your left and the manor house in the distance in the park, this seems like the perfect place to forget the problems of the world. The poet Gottlieb Klopstock described the island as an "island of happier solitude" in his ode "Stintenburg" in 1767 after a visit. It's hard to imagine that German history, with all its shoals, is focused like a magnifying glass right here on the 400-meter-long and 190-meter-wide island. Perfect material for a Hollywood film – after all, there's now a book that documents the multifaceted history. https://www.ln-online.de/kultur/regional/was-die-stasi-auf-der-insel-stintenburg-trieb-73FITHSMMMB7PQFHLOO4OFIAAU.html

Chic cabins for boats and all sorts of other things for a nice weekend on the water. The owners probably find the hiking trail along it a nuisance. But it's also a good place for cycling.

This bridge offers a beautiful view of two lakes: the Schaalsee on one side and the Kirchensee on the other. It is part of the approximately 4 km circular trail around the Kirchensee.

The Groß Zecher estate is an ideal starting point for exploring the region around the Schaalsee. You can stay overnight and eat here. For overnight guests there is a private bathing jetty with direct access to the water. The field adventure trail also starts here...

Best all-round view over Kirchensee and Schaalsee

The Groß Zecher estate with its historic buildings is beautifully located between Küchensee and Schaalsee. Since 1691 it has been owned by the von Witzendorff patrician family from Lüneburg. The magnificent manor house was built in the classicist style. Today you can not only dine well at the estate, but also spend the night and of course enjoy the peace and quiet. You can find more information at https://www.gutgrosszecher.de/.

The bridge construction is finished and the new bridge turned out really nice.

The Groß Zecher estate is a noble estate in the district of Groß Zecher in the municipality of Seedorf am Schaalsee. In the Middle Ages, not far from today's estate, there was a Boko hilltop castle with a diameter of 15 m on the Zecherscher Werder, a peninsula in the Schaalsee. The surrounding moat, which is 5 m wide, can still be seen in part. In the course of the medieval colonization, the von Zülen family, who came from Saxony, settled here and named themselves von Zecher after this newly acquired property. The castle was destroyed in 1349. In the 14th century, the von Carlow family first came into possession of Groß Zecher, then from 1497 the von Parkentin family. The Parkentin (later spelled Berkentin) sold Groß Zecher in 1691 to the von Witzendorff patrician family from Lüneburg. The Brunswick-Lüneburg Privy Councilor and Chamber President Hieronymus von Witzendorff thus became a member of the knighthood of the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, which fell to the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1689 when the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg died out. Hieronymus von Witzendorff established an entail for Groß Zecher. The estate has remained in the von Witzendorff family ever since. Ottokar von Witzendorff played a major role in Lauenburg politics in the 19th century as district administrator of the Duchy of Lauenburg. After his death in 1890, the neighboring Seedorf estate, which had previously also belonged to the family, passed to his widow, who passed it on to her family. Most of the baroque mansion in Groß Zecher from 1720 was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century to make room for a new building on the same site. Using parts of the old structure, a plastered new building was built in the classical style, which today characterizes the estate. The eleven-story mansion is single-storey with a half-hipped roof. Above the dormers there are two bat dormers with roof rails in the pitched roof. The five-axis central avant-corps is two-storey with a flat triangular gable with an oval window above it. The wing at the back of the house is also two-storey in half-timbering and dates from an earlier period. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_Gro%C3%9F_Zecher