Kowalz: Manor House, Landscape Park and Cycling Tours

Those wishing to include cultural monuments and cycle paths in their travel plans will find several specific points of interest in Kowalz. Highlights include a whole-mile obelisk on the old B 110, a manor house, a protected landscape park and traces of the former beet railway. These are complemented by the village church in Thelkow, a megalithic tomb and several cycling-related attractions. Together, they make Kowalz a destination where historical details and active exploration come together in different ways.

Traces Along the Road and at the Manor

The milestone (whole-mile obelisk) stands at the junction of the old B 110 in Kowalz, along the former route of the B 110 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The main building of the former machine tractor station, which is a listed monument, is located at Hauptstraße 24. Kowalz Manor was originally built as a half-timbered structure, probably at the beginning of the 18th century. The writer Margarete von Oertzen, née von Plüskow, was born at Kowalz Manor in 1854. Thus, transport history, rural architectural history and a literary biography come together at a few precisely identified locations.

Park, Church and Megalithic Tomb

Kowalz has a landscape park with a magnificent avenue of lime trees and a small pond. The landscape park is protected as a historic monument. For travellers interested in architectural and garden monuments, it broadens the view beyond individual buildings. The village church in Thelkow is a fieldstone building from the mid-13th century, constructed approximately between 1260 and 1280 from fieldstone and partly brick. Its richly structured south portal is particularly worth seeing. In a field to the south between Kowalz and Nustrow, a destroyed but noteworthy megalithic tomb can be identified by a single tree. The range of attractions therefore extends from a designed park and sacred architecture to a prehistoric site.

Cycling Along Historic Routes

For cycling travellers, the former beet railway route is another important point of reference. A section of the former beet railway route near Kowalz has been developed as a cycle path. The route passes the location where the switch to the former Kowalz loading point was situated. From Kowalz, the cycling tour can be continued along the old beet railway trail and through Sophienhof to Vilz. In addition, the “Megalithic Tombs and Slavic Hillforts” cycling tour passes through Kowalz. The cycling references thus distinguish between a developed section, a historic route and a themed tour.

Travel Planning with Different Priorities

In Kowalz, the developed section of the former beet railway route complements the manor house and landscape park with a cycling-related attraction. A culture-focused day can concentrate on buildings, the park and the tomb; an active itinerary can make the developed cycle-path section, the old beet railway trail or one of the cycling tours its main focus. Since the destinations are associated with different local and route references, it is worth considering Kowalz, Thelkow and the route between Kowalz and Nustrow separately when planning.

For a broader overview, you can also visit Amt Warnow-West, Amt Krakow Am See, Amt Mecklenburgische Schweiz, Gubkow, Warnemünde, Satow, Amt Bad Doberan-Land and Amt Rostocker Heide.

For the overarching travel overview: Rostock.