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Schwerin Highlights: Castle Island & Old Town
Fairy-tale lake castle, Gothic brick, and the city of seven lakes.
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Welcome to Schwerin, the enchanting capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the celebrated 'city of seven lakes'. This walk begins where every visitor dreams of standing: before the fairy-tale Schweriner Schloss, a romantic palace rising from its own island on the water. From there you will wander through terraced castle gardens, across the ceremonial Alter Garten framed by its grand-ducal art museum and ornate state theatre, into the old town's quiet gabled lanes and bustling market square, and up to the soaring brick-Gothic cathedral. Along the way the shimmering Pfaffenteich reminds you why this residence city has captivated travellers, poets and princes for centuries. Let's step onto the island and begin.
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Schwerin Castle (Schweriner Schloss)
castle
Rising from its own island on shimmering Lake Schwerin, this romantic palace of golden turrets and honey-coloured towers is often called the Neuschwanstein of the North. It is the crown jewel of Schwerin and the historic seat of the grand dukes of Mecklenburg.
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Castle Garden (Burggarten)
park
The terraced pleasure grounds that wrap the castle island in orange trees, roses and lake views. Here a fairy-tale palace steps down to the water past an iron orangery and a grotto said to hide the castle ghost.
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Old Garden Square (Alter Garten)
square
Schwerin's grand ceremonial square, framed by castle, museum and theatre, is often called one of the most beautiful neoclassical squares in northern Germany. At its heart rides a bronze grand duke, and its cobbles once held tens of thousands of candle-carrying demonstrators.
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State Museum (Staatliches Museum Schwerin)
Museum
A stately temple to the arts on the Alter Garten, home to Old Masters, a menagerie of exotic beasts, and one of Europe's finest Marcel Duchamp collections.
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Mecklenburg State Theatre
Landmark
A jewel box of neo-Renaissance stone crowning the Alter Garten, its facade lined with the busts of Schiller, Goethe and Mozart. Inside waits a lavish neo-Baroque auditorium of red velvet and gilded stucco.
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Old Town Lanes (Buschstraße)
Street
A tangle of crooked cobbled lanes just south of the Market Square, where Schwerin's oldest half-timbered house leans out over the pavement. This is the medieval heart of the city, cosy, lopsided, and full of small surprises.
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Market Square & Town Hall (Markt / Rathaus)
square
Schwerin's beating heart since the twelfth century, a snug cobbled square where a Tudor-fronted town hall, a snow-white colonnade, and a wickedly satirical lion all crowd together beneath the cathedral's shadow. This is where the city was born, burned, and rebuilt again and again.
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Schwerin Cathedral (Schweriner Dom)
Church
Soaring above the old town in dark red brick, Schwerin Cathedral is the tallest church in Mecklenburg and one of the finest works of North German Brick Gothic. Its 117.5 metre tower has watched over the city for centuries.
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Pfaffenteich Lake
Lake
A shimmering rectangular lake in the very heart of Schwerin, ringed by a broad promenade of grand nineteenth-century townhouses. Locals fondly call it their 'little Binnenalster', after the famous city lake in Hamburg.
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