Pinnow Lock – Havel Riverside Picnic Spot loop from Oranienburg

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Pinnow Lock – Havel Riverside Picnic Spot loop from Oranienburg

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Pinnow Lock – Havel Riverside Picnic Spot loop from Oranienburg

03:46

14.9km

30m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 17, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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719 m

Louise-Henriette Bridge

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The narrow pedestrian bridge is named after Louise Henriette of Orange. The wife of the great elector came from the Netherlands and had fallen in love with the wide open …

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1.16 km

St. Nicolai Parish Church Oranienburg

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The Protestant Church of St. Nicolai was built between 1864 and 1866 on behalf of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV by the architect Friedrich August Stüler in the neo-Romanesque style.
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6.84 km

The Pinnower lock is located on the Oder-Havel waterway, which is used by around 3,000 sports ships each year. Here you can watch the ships master the height difference between the two sections of the canal.

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8.33 km

View of the Oranienburg Canal

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Especially today, as ice remnants from last week still covered the water.

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8.46 km

Confluence of the Havel and the Oranienburger Canal

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Here, at Haveleck, the Havel and the Oranienburg Canal meet. A beautiful place with a wide view over the waterways.

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9.75 km

Havel Riverside Picnic Spot

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Very nice place on the Havel

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10.6 km

View of the Havel from the bridge near Havelhausen

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Here you cross the Oder-Havel Canal and also find a boat rental.

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12.1 km

Oder-Havel Canal Riverside

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So only after a lot of snowfall and thaw or extreme rain. Was nice to photograph.

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14.9 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

9.87 km

2.00 km

1.81 km

1.13 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

7.24 km

2.99 km

1.85 km

1.52 km

728 m

493 m

Elevation

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Weather

Tuesday 13 October

16°C

6°C

15 %

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Max wind speed: 23.0 km/h

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Comments

August 10, 2025,Oranienburger Kanal – Havelkanal

This is a beautiful waterfront hiking trail. Below the Borgsdorf-Pinnow bridge, the Oranienburg Canal and the Havel meet. From here, the cycling and hiking path runs directly alongside the Oranienburg Canal – a straight line to Oranienburg. At the palace's orangery, we enter the palace gardens through an open gate, stroll to the palace, and exit again at the main …

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August 3, 2022,Oranienburg, Runde an den Kanälen entlang

The canals are
• Oranienburg Canal with Pinnow lock
• (Ruppin Canal with the ruins of the Fridenthal lock - currently under construction, see below)
• Oranienburg Havel
• Havel and
• Oder-Havel Canal

A nice tour - actually planned as a hike (!), so some sections lead over very narrow paths, lined with shoulder-high goldenrod, also gravel paths...

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