The little Lusatian town of Lübbenau (Sorbian Lubnjow) lies on the southern fringes of the beautiful Oberspreewald (Upper Spree Forest). It is the gateway to the Spreewald, a landscape reserve of 287 sq. km/111 sq. mi.
Near Lübbenau is the romantically situated little village of Lehde, with the Spreewald Open-Air Museum (Freilandmuseum). Here numerous old farmhouses with their original furnishings illustrate the life of Sorb peasants in the 19th C.
The most famous walk in the Spreewald, near Lübbenau, is from the Spreeschlösschen restaurant to the Wotschowska restaurant, on a footpath (laid out in 1911) which crosses 15 bridges, under which glide the Spreewald boats. The walk takes about an hour.
In the oldest part of Lübbenau stands the neo-classical Schloss, built between 1817 and 1839 on the site of an earlier moated castle. Much altered, it is now a training center. The Orangery (1820) now houses a museum.
The oldest building in the town is a two-story half-timbered building at the entrance to the Schloss.
Address: Schloss Lübbenau, Schlossbezirk 6, D-03222 Lübbenau, Germany
An exhibition hall opposite the half-timbered house near Lübbenau's Schloss contains an old locomotive and rolling-stock of the Spreewaldbahn, a narrow-gauge railroad which ran between Cottbus and Lübben, as well as some traditional Sorb costumes.
In the Markt in Lübbenau is the Town Church of St Nicholas, a plain Baroque building of 1738-41. It has a notable interior, including a fine monument of 1765.
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