Top 20 Natural Monuments around Teupitz

Very nice, the paths are easy to walk on

The Tornower See is near Tornow, a little south of Teupitz. There is a nature trail. Very nice paths along the bank and in the forest. There are benches and rest areas.

Circular route around the Pätz lakes The circular route around the Pätzer Vordersee and Hintersee is a little over 16 kilometers long. It's a trail for all seasons. The start and finish is at the train station “Bestensee”. The path leads along the main road fromBestensee to Pätzer Vordersee and on to Pätz with its historic village green. The place name comes from the Slavic and means something like sand. From here we continue into pure nature! A hundred years ago, the hillsides on the east bank of the Pätzer Hintersee were almost free of forest. A few junipers bear witness to the sparse heathland that once existed here. The lowlands with wet meadows are preserved with the support of landscape conservation. On the southern shore of the Pätzer Hintersee there are large moor areas that have been secured as a nature reserve. The path now leads north. An idiosyncratic pine forest with crooked trees is called Schweinewinkel. This is where the pigs used to be driven into the forest to the Waldwiede. Walking through the Pätz Hintersee settlement, you return to the starting point at the train station. Source https://www.dahme-heideseen-naturpark.de/themen/routen-touren/rundweg-um-die-paetzer-seen/

Within the "Briesensee and Klingeberg" nature reserve established in 2002, the slopes at the source around the Klingespring and the moors and swamp forests were removed from forest management. On the slopes, semi-natural mixed pine forests with their stocks of ferns and wintergreens should be able to develop undisturbed. The protection also applies to the almost 300-year-old pine trees that occur naturally here, as well as the undisturbed moorland development in the alder quarries, moorland copses, and bank and silting-up areas. Within the 79 hectare nature reserve, 10 hectares are secured as wilderness areas. Source https://www.natur-brandenburg.de/themen/sehenswertes/dauerwald-am-briesensee-und-klingespring/

A nature trail with information boards leads along the banks of Lake Tornow through a “primeval forest”. The path runs along the lake through rarely found, natural mixed pine forests. Naturally grown pine trees over 200 years old with impressive growth forms and dimensions stretch their crowns over the southern shore of Lake Tornow. They are among the oldest pines in the Mark Brandenburg. It is thanks to careful foresters and botanists that these native pines were preserved. Nowadays they are part of the “Briesensee and Klingeberg” nature reserve. In a scientific sense, the trees are so-called “autochthonous” pines: settled in the region and grown without human influence. This means that the Scots pine (Pinussylvestris) is characterized by characteristics and a specific adaptation to the location. Pine trees also naturally rejuvenate here. As a representative of conifers, the common pine is very variable in its growth form. Depending on the location, it can be 15 to 40 meters high and up to 500 years old. With its taproots it also reaches deep groundwater layers and can therefore survive longer dry periods. In adolescence and in the upper part of the trunk, the bark is thin and smooth and reddish in color. As it ages, the bark becomes grey-brown, deeply cracked and coarsely flaky.

The approx. 80-hectare nature reserve "Briesensee and Klingeberg" is located about 3 km south-west of Teupitz, on the south and south-west shores of Lake Tornow. These are the Briesensee, the southern and southwestern shores of the Tornower See, and the moraine slopes bordering on the lakes within the Zossen-Teupitzer Hügellan landscape unit. Characteristic of the NSG area are the two lakes, a largely natural flow (Briesenseegraben) and several spring areas, of which the "Klingespring", which is protected as a natural monument, is designed as a prominent hillside spring. The water quality of the Briesensee has apparently been in poor condition for a long time, which has an impact on the water quality of the Briesenseegraben. The relief-rich slopes at Tornowsee are partially planted with autochthonous old pine populations. Numerous wintergreen and club moss species were found on the slopes. Due to changes in use, such as the lack of farm forest and litter use, these occurrences have declined sharply in recent decades and are currently concentrated almost exclusively in the area of a few small clay pits. There is a small agricultural area in the area. This wet meadow is part of the contractual nature protection program. The sanctuary is a popular destination for nature walks. Signposted hiking trails and a nature trail lead through the area. On the hiking trail, with a view of the Briesensee, there is a memorial stone for the botanist and local historian Adolf Straus. There are bathing spots at Lake Tornow. Campgrounds that used to be here were completely dismantled after 1990. Source https://www.dahme-heideseen-naturpark.de/themen/natura-2000/briesensee-und-klingeberge/

The Klingespring spring is located on a slope opposite the southern bank of Lake Tornow. It appears on a map from the Staakow Forestry Office in 1936 and is therefore considered one of the oldest natural monuments in the region. The name goes back to the Upper German word blade for gorge and, in connection with the English word spring for source, means something like gorge source. It is a seepage spring in which the rainwater flows through sandy, water-permeable material above the spring, seeps into the slope and comes back to the surface at a water-retaining layer. At an earlier time there was said to have been a carillon at this point that was powered by the escaping water. The spring was created during the last ice age around 10,000 years ago. The swamp forget-me-not, fontinalis, real watercress and stream bunge thrive in the source area, which indicates a special quality of the water. As the water escapes, sand is removed, which is deposited as an alluvial fan in Lake Tornow. The wintergreen spotted fern grows above the slope. The source's protection goes back to the botanist Adolf Strauss (1904–1986), in whose honor NABU Dahmeland erected a memorial stone on a hiking trail that connects Lake Tornow with Lake Briesen. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briesensee_und_Klingeberg

The Klingespring on Lake Tornow was declared a natural monument in 1934 and is demonstrably the oldest natural monument in the region. At the bottom of steep hills, ice-cold, crystal-clear water flows from a slope into a spring basin and then in a small stream to Lake Tornow. The name “Klingespring” goes back to the Upper German “Klinge” and is synonymous with “gorge” and “spring”. “Spring” refers to a spring and (in English) spring. “Klingespring” therefore means: “ravine spring”. The water from the spring, which emerges here as a so-called seepage spring at the foot of the slope, supplies spring biotopes and a small river that are worthy of protection. Botanical specialties include swamp forget-me-nots, spring mosses, stream boulders and watercress. The watercress here characterizes a source that can be viewed as very natural and original. Insects such as the larvae of stoneflies and caddisflies that grow in the water or the black and yellow spring damsel indicate excellent water quality. The power of the emerging spring water created a spring cauldron over thousands of years. The removed sand was deposited as alluvial fans on the other side of the path in and on Lake Tornow. The Klingespring is located directly on the hiking trail and nature trail around Lake Tornow. The source and the surrounding hillsides, together with the Briesensee, belong to the “Briesensee and Klingeberg” nature reserve. The crystal clear water is traditionally drawn from the Klingespringquelle as Easter water. Source https://www.dahme-heideseen-naturpark.de/themen/ausflugsziel-erlebnisse/klingespring-am-tornower-see/