Berliner Mauerweg 2

All bike rides need a purpose (some famous French cyclist), so the 2nd stage of my ride around the boundary of the former West Berlin, essentially up the middle of Berlin, was to visit Lübars. "One of the most authentic and oldest villages (1247) in the outskirts of Berlin, it looks the same way it did some hundred years ago." This would date it near the beginning of recorded settlement in Berlin, although not old by European standards.

Dicke Marie

 

 

 

Lübars is located on the northern edge of Berlin and I was expecting to see an old "authentic" village. But what I saw was just a neatly kept peri-urban green location with lots of quality equestrian facilities - a disappointment but a few kms further on to the west I saw

"Dicke Marie"

that is still just alive and as old as those long decayed and absent first buildings in Lübars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And an interesting bridge.

 

It is worth highlighting that Berlin has many water based living places, from those on the many kms of kanals and rivers, to those on the various lakes and sees. The next stage of my Mauerweg will continue on the western side of Berlin that has extensive amount of waterside homes and facilities.