Selpin: Cycling Tour, Manor Houses and Park Landscapes

In and around Selpin, a 25-kilometre cycling tour, manor house history and park landscapes come together in the municipality. To get your bearings, it is worth distinguishing the village of Selpin from the municipality’s other villages: Wesselstorf, Woltow and Reddershof each have their own historical and landscape features. If you are looking for a hotel in Selpin, you can use these themes to see which ones best suit your travel plans.

Cycling Tour and the History of Transport

The “Steinreiches ParkLand” cycling tour is 25 kilometres long and includes Selpin. It starts in Woltow; there is a car park at the village exit towards Selpin. The distance, starting point and car park provide practical details for planning the cycling tour. A former sugar beet railway line also runs south of Selpin. Sugar beets were transported on small wagons along it to the Tessin sugar factory. The named cycling route and the railway line’s former agricultural use thus offer two distinct aspects of local history.

Manor House and Park in Wesselstorf

In Wesselstorf, a village in the municipality of Selpin, the manor house is accompanied by gardens with old fruit varieties and a partly restored park with a valuable collection of mature trees, including many exotic species. In the manor park, a vista runs from the south side of the house across the pond to a hill called Schlossberg. The line of sight leads from the house, across the water, to the hill. The Cloud Garden was created from a former goose pasture and continues to be developed.

Cultural events are held at the Wesselstorf manor house at irregular intervals, including open gardens, concerts, readings and exhibitions. If you would like to plan around an event, check the specific dates in advance. This lets you coordinate a visit with your travel plans without assuming there is a regular event schedule.

Manor Houses and Traces of History in Other Villages

The Selpin manor house was built around 1751 and remodelled in 1850. These two dates provide specific points of reference for the village’s architectural history. In Woltow, the inner park area covers about eight hectares and is an archaeological site. The moat and rampart of the old Slavic castle complex are still clearly visible. The manor house in Woltow stands on the site of an old Slavic castle complex and has been falling into disrepair since 1990.

In Reddershof, the manor house, also called Reddershof Castle, is set in a hilly park covering several hectares. In places, the differences in elevation reach several metres. Along with Selpin’s manor house history and Woltow’s archaeological site, Reddershof offers another aspect of the municipality shaped by its terrain.

Nature and Culture Nearby

Near Selpin lies Griever Holz Nature Reserve, a woodland where species including foxes, hares, fire-bellied toads, white-tailed eagles and cranes can be found. Also nearby, visitors can follow in the footsteps of Richard Wossidlo at the Wossidlo House; he is considered the founder of Mecklenburg folklore studies. The cycling tour also leads to Friedrichshof, regarded as the birthplace of the folklorist Richard Wossidlo. The surrounding area therefore offers both a natural landscape with named animal species and several points of interest connected with folklore studies.

Selpin Within the Wider Rostock Destination

The wider Rostock destination offers other distinctive landscape and cultural themes. Sternberger Seenland Nature Park, with its deeply incised breakthrough valleys along the Warnow, numerous lakes, picturesque hills and extensive forests, is particularly well suited to hiking and cycling. The historic Molli narrow-gauge railway, which runs between Kühlungsborn and Bad Doberan and is considered the oldest narrow-gauge railway on the Baltic coast, is another regional landmark.

Planning Your Hotel Choice

When looking for a hotel in Selpin, it helps to consider your planning needs separately: for a cycling tour, the 25-kilometre route is a practical starting point; for a cultural event in Wesselstorf, the specific date matters because events are held at irregular intervals. Check the date in advance if an event is to determine your stay.

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