Tours of the Lenné Park & play "The Dryad"
With the founding of the Plagefenn in 1907, Prof. Max Kienitz, the head of the Chorin forestry department, established the first protected area in Prussia. The moor, forest and lake landscape is located on an area of around 178 hectares between the towns of Chorin and Brodowin.
Reason enough to focus on today’s Schorfheide-Chorin biosphere reserve, in the heart of which lies the Plagefenn, and Lenné Park on the site of the former monastery garden. You can learn a lot of interesting facts and anecdotal stories during the special tours.
The monastery buildings attracted the attention of many painters since the Romantic period. Even today, the romantic motifs can be experienced unchanged.
Tours of the park are planned on Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Here, the still noticeable landscape design of the Cistercians in the Middle Ages, its use as an electoral domain and the Prussian domain period in the 19th century up to its use by the Forestry Office from 1861 are examined. The monastery cemetery and the landscape park based on Lenné’s plans form the focus of the tour.
From 6 p.m., Lenné Park will be transformed into a stage: Embedded in music, poetry and songs, natural creatures appear and open up a fairytale-like and dreamy world to the audience. The “Dryad” tells of a girl and an abbot, of longing and love, of the life captured in bricks and the power of nature.
Various theatrical devices, classical music, romantic German natural poetry, pantomime and masks invite the audience into a fairytale and imaginative world.
An experience for the senses.