Groß Wittensee

Lake Wittensee and the cycling paths give Groß Wittensee a clear focus on leisure by the water and cycling tours. The Groß Wittenseer Moor nature reserve lies about one kilometer northwest of Groß Wittensee and adds a protected natural area to the options. For planning your trip, the season, route difficulty, and visitor rules in the moor are especially relevant.

Lake Wittensee: landscape and water sports

Lake Wittensee is located in Hüttener Berge Nature Park. Covering an area of 1,034 hectares, it is a glacial end-moraine lake and serves as a local recreation area. Swimming, windsurfing, sailing, stand-up paddleboarding, and other paddle sports are available seasonally; motorboats are prohibited. Conditions may vary. Before your trip, check which options are available during your travel dates.

Cycling around the lake

Numerous cycling routes of varying difficulty run around Lake Wittensee. When planning, you can use route difficulty as a point of comparison and choose a tour accordingly. Information about bicycle rentals is provided locally. Before your trip, check locally which routes are available and what bicycle rental information applies to your dates. This will help you plan your cycling tour around the conditions that apply during your stay.

Nature reserve and historical connection

The Groß Wittenseer Moor nature reserve lies about 1 km northwest of Groß Wittensee and north of Lake Wittensee. Stay on the designated path: the wet moor is dangerous to enter. The lake and the moor therefore differ in how they can be used: seasonal water activities are possible on Lake Wittensee, while visitors to the moor must stay on the designated path.

One local historical landmark is the Dutch-style windmill in Groß Wittensee. Dating from 1874, it offers a different point of interest from the leisure activities at the lake and on the cycling routes.

Rendsburg-Eckernförde as the wider regional setting

The landscape is considered on a broader scale in the wider travel destination of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. Rendsburg-Eckernförde district has 55 kilometers of Baltic Sea coastline, four nature parks, and a signposted network of 1,000 kilometers of cycling routes. The 180-kilometer Nature Park Hiking Trail passes through the district’s four nature parks. The numerous cycling routes around Lake Wittensee and the district-wide signposted network thus offer two different scales for planning tours: the lake area and the wider district.

Aschberg is also part of this regional picture. On a clear day, the 98-meter-high hill offers panoramic views as far as the Kiel Canal, Eckernförde Bay, and the state capital, Kiel. The district’s nature parks consist in large part of nature and landscape conservation areas and provide habitats for diverse animal and plant life.

Choose your focus when searching for hotels

Swimming and sailing depend on seasonal conditions; for a cycling tour, the difficulty of each route is a separate point of comparison. If you would also like to include nature and landscape conservation areas or the wider region, you can broaden your focus. Let the main focus of your trip guide your search.

Discover more destinations: Damp, Büdelsdorf, Westerrönfeld, Borgdorf-Seedorf, Nortorf, Krummwisch, Schlei-Ostsee, Jevenstedt.

Go to the overview of the wider travel destination: Rendsburg-Eckernförde.