Hollen: Sand Ridge, Cycling Route and Local History

Hollen lies on a narrow sand ridge in the moor. The village is part of the municipality of Wiefelstede and has characteristics of both a field settlement and a moorland colony. Thus, a striking landscape feature and two settlement types exist side by side. This gives you a clear framework for choosing a destination: you can get to know Hollen through its location in the moor and its distinctive settlement character.

Landscape and Tours

In Wiefelstede, you can walk and cycle away from traffic and the hustle and bustle, through forests, meadows and fields, along small streams, and on sandy paths or brick-paved roads. These landscapes and path surfaces offer different impressions along the way. When planning your trip, you can distinguish this municipality-wide overview from the specifically named Wattkieker Route.

The Wattkieker Route is a day-long cycling tour from Wiefelstede to the coast of Jade Bay at Varelerhafen and Dangast, and is signposted as a circular route. Near Hollen, it passes an intersection with a short detour to the Hollener Findling boulder. This lets you consider the day-long cycling tour and the short detour to the boulder as separate parts of your plans. Check local route conditions before setting out.

Event and Local Inn

The Hollener Trecker Freunde e.V.’s annual vintage tractor meet takes place on the first weekend in September. Exact dates may vary from year to year, so check the date for the relevant year before your trip.

The Hollner Kroog is an inn at Garnholter Straße 3, 26215 Wiefelstede, Germany. Check whether the inn is open before you travel there.

Culture and History in Wiefelstede

In the wider destination of Wiefelstede, St. John’s Church was consecrated in 1057 by Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen. It is considered the oldest church in Ammerland. The Wiefelstede Local History Museum features changing exhibitions on cultural history, everyday life and regional artistic work. These exhibitions may change, offering a different way to explore the municipality’s themes than its enduring landscape features.

In the wider destination of Wiefelstede, the garden of the Wiefelstede Local History Museum has become an open-air museum, with a permanent exhibition about trade and crafts using technology from the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition includes a shoemaker’s workshop, a barber shop, a wheelwright’s workshop, an old forge, a bakery and a general store. The various trades make the exhibition a distinct focus within Wiefelstede’s cultural offerings.

Another cultural-historical site in the wider destination of Wiefelstede is the trail marker at the Wemkendorf burial mound. Designed by Barbara Jaros, the marker identifies a Bronze Age chain of burial mounds. It is a two-metre-high concrete stele with an ornamental pin cast in bronze and is part of the “Forgotten Places” project by the Ammerland Art Trail.

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