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Burg Schlitz-Görzhausen Sculpture Trail
Art along the way...
.. what a great idea! Sculptures that truly "come to life" in nature and the surrounding cultural landscape. Fire, Millennium Trees, pasque flowers, a fried egg, ancestral or messenger stones, steles, pyramids, and cuddly shells...In every season, in any weather, with ever-changing impressions—a wonderful experience... An open-air exhibition space, a path you can stroll along, taking in not only the art but also breathtaking nature: Mecklenburg Switzerland. As a Swiss person, you might find this name amusing, but by Mecklenburg standards, the hills rise high. The hills rise gently, they slope down gently again, and this creates a smoothness, a harmony, that is unparalleled. At the beginning of the 19th century, Hans Graf von Schlitz was drawn to this area, surrounding his newly built castle, “Burg Schlitz,” with an unusual park. Graf Schlitz planted many trees, including exotic species, and skillfully laid out extensive walking paths. He had thirty-six monuments erected: columns, obelisks, grottoes, and even lakes. Görzhausen was also established at this time—today the center of the new sculpture trail being created between here and Burg Schlitz. In the late 1990s, the two artists Wilfried Duwentester and Bernd Uiberall took up the count’s idea and brought it into dialogue with contemporary sculpture. The sculptures “live” in the open air, in dialogue with the vastness and the existing cultural landscape, which has been shaped by humans for centuries yet still harbors a powerful, almost exuberant natural vitality. The Sculpture Trail thrives largely on the fact that the artists incorporate the existing landscape into their work from the very moment of creation. As walkers, we can then listen to the resulting dialogue between landscape and art. Every visit to the Sculpture Trail is different. The changing weather and seasons constantly lend the landscape a completely different character, creating an enormous variety of impressions even in the same spot, with the same sculpture.
Burg Schlitz–Görzhausen Sculpture Trail: Outdoor Art in Hohen Demzin
Between Burg Schlitz and the small village of Görzhausen near Hohen Demzin lies the Burg Schlitz–Görzhausen Sculpture Trail—an extraordinary exhibition space in the heart of nature. Fire, millennium trees, pasque flowers, a fried egg, steles, pyramids, and transmission stones line a path that can be rediscovered in every season. Here, art does not exist in enclosed spaces but breathes in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
Mecklenburg Switzerland as a natural stage for contemporary art
The Sculpture Trail is located in the heart of Mecklenburg Switzerland, a gently rolling cultural landscape that ranks among the most charming regions of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. As early as the beginning of the 19th century, Hans Graf von Schlitz had extensive walking paths and 36 monuments—columns, obelisks, grottoes, and lakes—constructed around his newly built castle. In the late 1990s, artists Wilfried Duwentester and Bernd Uiberall continued this tradition by placing modern sculptures in dialogue with the natural landscape. The result is a path where landscape and art respond to one another.
Every visit to the Sculpture Trail is unique
Changing weather, the seasons, and shifting light constantly lend the sculptures new effects—the same stone, the same stele, can appear completely different on a winter day than on a summer evening. Those visiting the Baltic Sea coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania who wish to explore the hinterland in addition to Rostock, Stralsund, Wismar, or the Fischland-Darß-Zingst region will find here a quiet, profound alternative to a beach vacation.
Events in Hohen Demzin
Accommodations auf Mecklenburgische Seenplatte
Vacation rentals, hotels, and more in the region
Old school Barlin
● Dargun
Experience two separate vacation resorts on 30,000 m2 in the middle of the untouched nature of the Mecklenburg Lake District. We offer children's vacations, vacation apartments & hunting vacations!
Old vicarage Rambow
● Rambow
Picking golden plums, Cox oranges and Jonathan from a hammock? Sounds like paradise and it is, because it's possible in the Rambow parish garden. Retired pastor Eckart Hübener invites guests to stay in the adjoining baroque half-timbered rectory.
Old Schwiessel Manor House
● Schwiessel
The old manor house is now run as a guesthouse and houses the hunting school.