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16. Longer Excursions from Berlin.
The long distance trains call only at the termini of the suburban
service, not at the intermediate stations, with the exception (for the
routes described below) of Gesundbrunnen, Spandau, and Nieder-Schbne¬
weide.
a. Eberswalde. Chorin. Freienwalde. — Railway (Stettin
line; suburban service to Bernau, comp. p. 13) to Freienwalde, 40 M.,
in 2 hrs.; special trains on Sun. in summer. — 3 M. Pankow-
Schbnhuusen (p. 167). — 972 3d. Buch, with sewage-fields and a
lunatic asylum of the city of Berlin. — f4a/4 M. Bernau (Kuiser-
hof), a town of 9500 inhab., with remains of a circular fortified
wall, noted for its determined resistance to the Hussites in 1432.
— 2072 31. Biesenthul. The little town (2800 inhab.) lies 274 M.
to the W. of the station.
About 3 M. to the W. of the town is Lauke (Hotel-Restaurant Schloss-
park), with a chateau and park of Count Redern. Thence we may go
on through fine woods to (l'/2 M.) Uetzdorf (restaurant) and skirt the
pretty *Liepnitz-See to the (3 M.) restaurant at its W. extremity. At
Wandlitz Station, IV2 M. from the restaurant, we may join the branch-
line of the Nord-Bahn (p. 203), beginning at Reinickendorf. Motor-car
trips see p. 24; cycling route, p. 205.
28 M. Eberswalde (Deutsches Hans, R. 2-3, B. 1, D. 2 Jl,
well spoken of; Pin now, at the station; Railway Restaurant), a
busy town with 23,850 inhab., situated on the Finow Canal, which
here receives the Schwiirze, is the seat of a school of forestry.
The well-wooded neighbourhood attracts numerous visitors in sum¬
mer. — A pleasant walk leads to the S., via the Schiitzenhaus
(restaurant and view-tower) and Kurhaus to the (274 31.) Zuin-
hammer Restaurant, whence we may go on to the Wusserfall
Restaurant, to Specltthausen (restaurant), and the Nonnenfliess.
— Cycling route to Eberswalde, see p. 205.
The second, station beyond Eberswalde is (35V2M.) Chorinchen, about
3/4 M. to the E. of which lies *Amt Chorin (Neue Klosterschenke), a
former Cistercian monastery, founded about 1258. The ruined abbey-
church, a brick basilica in the purest early-Gothic style, is the most
interesting mediaeval building in the Mark of Brandenburg. The monas¬
tery is surrounded by fine woods.
From Euerswalde to Furstenbekg, 481/., M., branch-line in 3'/a-4 hrs.
— 11 M. Werbellinsee. About 6 M. to the S. in the Schorfheide, near
the Werbellin-See, lies the royal Bhooting-lodge of Hubertusstock. — For
details see Baedeker's Northern Germany.
We leave the Stettin main line at Eberswalde and take the
branch-line, via (3672 M.) Falkenberg (Hotel Kettlitz), a favourite
summer-resort, to —
40 M. Freienwalde (Hot. Schertz, R. 2-3, B. 1 Jl, well
spoken of), a town with 8300 inhab., charmingly situated on the
verge of the Oderbruch. The wooded hills which rise behind it dis¬
pute with those near Buckow (p. 208) the title of the * Murkish
Switzerland (Mdrkische Schweiz). The tower on the Wilhelms-