Hiking routes, hiking trails and circular hiking trails
The Weltnaturerbe Buchenwald Grumsin is embedded in the landscape of the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve. There are five circular hiking trails in the Grumsin Beech Forest, each marked with a different colour. Four of them are signposted with a beech leaf symbol in different colours. These start from Altkünkendorf, Groß-Ziethen, Luisenfelde and Zuchenberg.
All hiking routes can be reached by public transport.
Circular Hiking Route 'Grünes Buchenblatt' ('Green Beech Leaf')
The circular hiking trail marked with a green beech leaf is 7.2 kilometres long. It starts in Groß-Ziethen at the Ice Age Museum of the Geopark Eiszeitland am Oderrand and can be reached by bus 920 see how to get there. The route passes the life-size mammoth Georg in the museum’s outdoor area. You will pass the Sperlingsherberge, a protected stone quarry and place of discovery. Continue along the ‘Gelben Buchenblatt’ (“Yellow Beech Leaf”) trail in an easterly direction. In addition to moors, forest lakes and alder carr, a variety of beech forest stages can be observed here. Return along an old cobbled road through the core area. For more information, visit the Biosphärenreservats Schorfheide-Chorin.
'Oranges Buchenblatt' ('Orange Beech Leaf') circular hiking trail
The orange marked circular hiking trail is also called the wilderness trail. It starts in Altkünkendorf, for example at the Infopunkt (Anfahrt von April bis Oktober mit dem Welterbebus möglich) and is 10.5 kilometres long.
If you shorten this hiking trail at Luisenhof and take the cobbled Schmargendorfer Straße towards Altkünkendorf, the hike takes only about two hours. This makes it the shortest of the circular hiking trails in the Grumsin Beech Forest.
Please note: about two kilometres of the orange circular hiking trail are not barrier-free (for prams, wheelchairs and the like). Some fallen trees are on the paths. These have been left deliberately to make the wilderness character more tangible. A more detailed description of this “Wilderness Trail” can be found on the website of the Biosphärenreservats Schorfheide-Chorin.
'Gelbes Buchenblatt' ("Yellow Beech Leaf") circular hiking trail
The starting point of the 10.3-kilometre-long Orange Beech Leaf circular hiking trail is Altkünkendorf. The trail leads along open hilly landscapes, the core zone, moors and alder carrs.
A more detailed description of the wilderness trail can be found on the website of the Biosphärenreservats Schorfheide-Chorin.
'Rotes Buchenblatt' ('Red Beech Leaf') circular hiking trail
The 21.5-kilometre Red Beech Leaf circular hiking trail is the longest of the circular hiking trails and runs around the entire World Heritage Site. It can also be started at Altkünkendorf, which has an Info Point and Visitor Centre. The hiking trail partly runs along the green, orange and yellow routes, past small villages, the Angermünde city forest and Lake Wolletzsee.
You can find a detailed description of the Red Beech Leaf circular hiking trail here: www.schorfheide-chorin-biosphaerenreservat.de
In addition to unguided hiking routes, you can join guided hikes in the Grumsin Beech Forest at the weekends You can register for a guided tour here.
Pleasure hiking trail
The Grumsin pleasure trail, on the other hand, connects regional producers, excursion destinations and nature over a distance of 17 kilometres. The hiking trail is marked with a turquoise „G“ and starts at Angermünde train station.
The trail passes through the villages of Sternfelde, Schmargendorf, Zuchenberg, Luisenhof, along the World Heritage Site in Grumsin and Altkünkendorf.
Along the pleasure hiking trail, you can visit the Klimmek fruit press with its farm shop, as well as the Hemme Milch farm café with a show dairy, play area with children’s tractors, playground and dairy cows. You can also visit the Grumsin Infopoint Grumsin in Altkünkendorf which has a viewing tower and a nearby distillery offering tours and tastings.
Tip: If you don’t want to hike the whole route, you can use the World Heritage bus and thus cover individual stages by bus.
You can also find descriptions of the circular hiking trails in the booklet Wanderungen im Weltnaturerbe Grumsin Beech Forest’ (“Hiking in the World Heritage Site Grumsin Beech Forest”), for example, available on the tmu Tourismus Marketing Uckermark.
