Chorin has long been known for the monastery which was first established here in the 13th C. The building, no longer a monastery, was restored in the 1950s and is a beautiful example of North German brick-built Gothic architecture.
The Arboretum (Forstbotanischer Garten) in Eberswalde-Finow, laid out more than 100 years ago, contains within its 27 hectares/67 acres over 1,000 species of trees both native and foreign and a number of specialized botanic gardens.
In Goethestrasse, just inside Eberswalde-Finow's town walls, can be seen the Barbaraglocke, a bell cast in 1518 by H. van Kampen which cracked in 1888 and again in 1909.
The Little Concert Hall (originally the chapel of the hospice of St George, a 13th C. brick building which was restored in 1973) in Eberswalde-Finow is used for concerts and recitals.
The parish church of St Maria Magdalena, a brick-built Early Gothic church (beginning of 14th C.) with fine groined vaulting (rebuilt 1874-76), has three doorways with figural decoration, a bronze font (13th C.) and a polyptych of 1606 on the altar.
On the Peene, 10km/6mi west of Anklam, lies the village of Stolpe, with an old ferryman's house, a smithy, the village church and the ruins of a Benedictine abbey founded in 1153.
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