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Quality of LifeNature - Land of water and peaceWhat immediately creates an impression, whether walking or horseriding, is the overall beauty as if seen from the view of a bird:Nature in the Duchy of Lauenburg. Like shimmering pearls more than 40 lakes are tucked between woods and hills, Ratzeburg Lake and Schaal Lake are like silent witnesses from the ice age. |
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| This is the home of the crane and sea eagle, of kingfisher and bittern. For this reason nature conservation has pride of place. Through the National Park of the Lauenburger Lakes - the first in Schleswig-Holstein - the old Salt Road winds, on which for centuries was transported the "White Gold" from the saltbeds in Lüneburg to the harbour in Lübeck. In some sections this past can be seen on the cobble stones, shaded by tall beech trees. The Elbe-Lübeck Canal, inaugurated in 1900, flows into the great river at Lauenburg. Here is a quite different landscape, with the high banks of the Elbe which can be overlooked on a trip on the paddle-steamer the "Kaiser Wilhelm". | |
Flying Jewels in SachsenwaldAzure blue morphos buzz around the visitor in frenzied flight, filigree clearwings looking for a place to land. The name of Princess Elisabeth von Bismark is synonymous with "flying jewels", with butterflies.More than 20 years after the opening, the princess, with her "Garden of Butterflies", has created a landmark in Germany. Even throughout Europe there are imitations, but the original remains in Sachsenwald; an experience for all the senses - splendidly colourful moths, a singing water garden, fragrant flowers. |
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| Every year 80 to 100,000 visitors flock to the garden of butterflies, coming from Malaysia, Australia or South America as well as Europe. Friedrichsruh has for a long time been well worth a visit. It was the former home of Otto von Bismark. The founder of the empire received Sachsenwald with Friedrichsruh as a gift from Kaiser Wilhelm 1st in 1871. In his lifetime Bismark had already become a cult figure. | |
Commitment for natureCarl-Albrecht von Treuenfels had an eye for, and on, nature. Born in Schwerin in 1938 he grew up in Moelln in the Duchy of Lauenburg. The young man was particularly fascinated by cranes which bred closeby - they were some of the last breeding pairs in Western Germany. After his law studies the lawyer worked for more than 10 years in management at an international advertising agency. |
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| Since 1969 he has become well known to the public by his excellent animal photographs, and as a journalist and author. For many years he fought, as president of the environment foundation the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Germany, for the cause and its clients, which were especially close to his heart; endangered nature-in his Lauenburg homeland, in Germany and indeed all over the world.A consistent line had begun with the oldest project of the WWF, that to do with the protection of the sea eagle and crane in The Duchy of Lauenburg County. The man was opposed to economic growth which had an adverse impact on nature. Sustainable economic development working with nature was his preference. | |
