Ruppiner Switzerland

The Ruppin Switzerland is an elongated hilly wooded area in the Ruppin country . It forms the eastern part of the Wittstock-Ruppiner Heide in the North Brandenburg plateau and hill country . Ruppin Switzerland borders the Rheinsberg Lake District in the north and the Granseer Platte in the east . Ruppin Switzerland lies in a wide terminal moraine belt and stretches from Neuruppin in the south to the Neuruppin district of Binenwalde in the north and is mostly in the urban area of ​​Neuruppin. The central part of Ruppiner Switzerland is the nature reserve Ruppiner Schweiz with the chain of lakes formed by Kalksee , Binenbach , Tornowsee , Zermützelsee , Tetzensee , Molchowsee and Rhin . The chain of lakes begins with the Kalksee and Tornowsee lakes and extends for around 40 kilometers to the south to the upper part of the Rhinluches .

Ruppiner Switzerland is part of the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land nature reserve .

reception

Theodor Fontane hiked through Ruppin Switzerland 130 years ago. He recorded his impressions in the hikes through the Mark Brandenburg . He closes the introduction to the corresponding chapter with this poem:

The Rhin in Ruppiner Switzerland

And yet you ask : »The fullest charm,
where does Ruppin Switzerland hide it?
Is it north near Rheinsberg?
Is it south of Molchow Lake?
Is it Rottstiel deep, basically cool?
Is it Kunsterspring, is it Boltenmühl?
Is it Boltenmühl, is it Kunsterspring?
Does pepper pond hide the magic ring?
Is it Binenwalde? «- No, oh no,
wherever you go, there it will be,
The same charm at every point
. Ruppin Switzerland opens up to you.

The landscape of Ruppin Switzerland is also received literarily by Alfred Andersch in his story A lover of the penumbra , in which this poem is quoted.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ quoted from Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg (1862–1889)