The best walks and hikes around Stralendorf

There are very few graves on the church grounds. The properly laid-out cemetery is located 200m away.

The Protestant village church in Stralendorf is a late Gothic hall church made of fieldstone and brick masonry in Stralendorf in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is a simple, towerless, flat-roofed hall church with two-part pointed arch windows and a three-sided east end from the middle of the 15th century and was designed on a vault, as evidenced by the buttresses and shield arches in the interior. In the post-medieval period, burial chapels were added to the north and west and a vestibule to the south. The two bells are hung in a wooden bell cage in the southwest of the church. The burial chapels served as burial places for the von Schack family and the Wachenhusen family of bailiffs from Walsmühlen. The main piece of the furnishings is a baroque altarpiece from the middle of the 18th century with a Last Supper relief in the predella and a crucifixion painting in the main field flanked by allegories of faith and hope between columns. The oversized royal gallery with the alliance coat of arms, supported by columns, is dated 1754. A painting of the burial of Christ from 1858 was created by Friedrich Lange. Several cabinet panes with coats of arms complete the furnishings. The organ by Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer from 1856 with six registers on a manual and pedal was transferred to the Malchow Organ Museum. Since then, an organ from the Kemper Orgelbau company from 1965 from Rickling in Schleswig-Holstein has served as a musical instrument. The church is surrounded by a cemetery enclosed by a dry fieldstone wall. The von Schack family mausoleum, located west of the church, is a neo-Gothic plastered building from 1854, designed by Heinrich Thormann and expanded by him in 1878. It houses the grave of the literary historian, patron and founder of the Munich Schack Gallery, Adolf Friedrich von Schack. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Stralendorf

Very nicely done with lots of information boards. Stay on the paths, for the sake of nature and FOR YOUR SAFETY.

Very beautifully laid out path through the moor with many information boards with interesting facts.

Neo-Gothic brick church from 1896-1898. West tower with pointed helmet

Beautiful brick church

A real gem what it is located south-west of Schwerin. The landscape protection area Siebendörfer Moor is a fen that has its origins in the Ice Age. It was created from the silting up of a ground moraine lake and can now be safely accessed on foot or by bike on asphalted and paved paths.

The Siebendörfer Moor is wonderful to explore on your own bike. Most of the paths are paved and also quite wide. You can also go on a bike tour through the moor as a group. In spring, with a bit of luck, you can hear the bittern's courtship call (Botaurus stellaris). The dull courtship call sounds a bit like a cow, which is why this inconspicuous bird is also known as the “bog ox” or “moss cow”.