Hanseatic city Anklam
The Hanseatic city of Anklam is right on the Peene, offering an ideal location for mainly active tourists and urban connection for an extended canoe trip on the river Peene.
The city is best known as the birthplace of aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal. His life and work stations as well as the development of flying machines are shown in the Otto Lilienthal Museum in Anklam. On the Pferdemarkt near St. Mary's Church is also located a 16-meter high monument to Otto Lilienthal.
The Nikolai church, like the Church of St. Mary, is a three-aisled hall church in the style of brick architecture. Its construction began in the 14th century. It was completed at the end of the 15th century and completely destroyed in the last days of the war in 1945 to the perimeter. The reconstruction of the Nikolai church began in 1995. Today, it serves as a place for concerts, exhibitions and lectures. A visit to the theater Anklam is highly recommendable for culture enthusiasts. The Vorpommern Regional Theatre presents comedies and dramas, fairy tales and children's theater pieces. Other cultural highlights include the annually held Hansefest and the summer open-air theater "Die Peene brennt'.
Excursion tips in Anklam
The birthplace of aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal
Anklam-Information
The Anklam-Information provides tourists and guests all Information to the topics holiday in the Hanseatic city of Anklam, vacation by and on the Peene, Otto-Lilienthal-Museum, museum in the stone gate, european route of brick Gothic and also events on the island Usedom.
The Anklam information can be found in a brightly decorated room in the Town Hall of the Hanseatic City of Anklam. The core task of Anklam-Information is to be a service provider for the tourists and guests. Besides the marketing of Anklam and the...
Adventure River Landscape
Are you looking for adventure tours and nature trips in the river valleys of Western Pomerania? Then you are exactly right with us. With years of experience we offer, among other things, solar boat tours, chartering of holiday floats and canoe trips on the Amazon of the North. There is something for everyone.
Dive off from everyday life. Exhale in the silence of river valley. It can be found only very rarely in Germany. The widely ramified river landscape in north-east of Germany was therefore awarded the European tourism award EDEN. In a landscape where...
Vorpommern Regional Theatre Anklam
1949 the main drape of the theatre Anklam was raised for 'Iphigenia in Tauris', which started off the very first season of the small theatre in the 'Schützenhaus'. Back then hardly anybody had expected that this small regional theatre would turn into one of the most versatile cultural providers of our region.
Out of the Theatre Anklam arose the Western Pomeranian Regional Theatre in 1993, which today fascinates Usedom's population and tourists and the adjacent land with theatre of all shades in three different buildings and on outdoor stages.Set...
St. Nicholas Church Anklam
The Nikolai Church in the center of the Hanseatic city of Anklam, very close to the river Peene, is one of the few preserved witnesses of brick Gothic architecture from Anklam's founding period 750 years ago. With the gallery of the "coat of arms windows of the Hanseatic League", a unique monument for Europe is created in the Nikolaikirche.
St. Nicholas Church was built in honor of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, fishermen and merchants in Gothic-Hanseatic architecture and completed in the second half of the 15th century. The church, was for centuries the emblem of the city...
Aeronauticon
The Aeronauticon, a museum park for watching, playing and learning at Anklam airfield, deals with everything that can fly - from a seed ta high-tech aircraft.
Exterior area of the Otto Lilienthal Museum - The theme of "flying" is being implemented in a playful way for families with children in the Aeronauticon on the Anklamer airfield. In the cockpit, the little ones can test the seats, make their own...
Flying Club Otto Lilienthal
The Flying Club Otto Lilienthal is located in Anklam
From April to September one can fly every weekend at the Flying Club
Multipurpose Sports Facility Anklam
Multipurpose Sports Facility "Alfred Hannig" is located in Anklam
The Multipurpose Sports Facility is an uncovered facility with 6 lanes and 2000 sqm usable area.
Otto Lilienthal Museum
Otto Lilienthal Museum, holder of many awards, tells the tale of how the technical history of aviation became human flight's cultural history
The Hanseatic town Anklam is the birthplace of the aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal.Otto Lilienthal Museum, holder of many awards, tells the tale of how the technical history of aviation became human flight's cultural history. The exhibits include...
Pulverturm Anklam
The Pulverturm Anklam is part of the former city fortification.
The 20 meter tall Pulverturm was built around 1450 as a part of the medieval fortification. In the 19th century it also served temporarily as observatory. 1998 the Pulverturm got comprehensively refurbished.
Anklam Water Resting Area
This modern water resting area is located in the Hanseatic city of Anklam directly on the Peene river.
Anklam is geographically located between the water hiking rest areas of Stolpe (12 km away) and Kamp (15 km away) and forms an ideal complement to the water hiking route along the Peene.
The Hanseatic town of Anklam offers a partially historic old...
Viking Graves "Altes Lager" Menzlin
South of Menzlin the historical Viking Graves are located. At one time a Slavic settlement zone and a Viking trading site were situated here. The Vikings, rather known as a warlike folk, were also able dealers and sailors, conducted trade at the whole Baltic coast and had outstanding boat builders and skillful craftsmen. This was revealed by archaeological research at the erstwhile maritime trading site Menzlin near Anklam.
The here discovered graves of Scandinavian origin in symbolic ship and circular shape are unique at the southern Baltic coast until now. Comprehensive anthropological research has shown that these are Scandinavian female graves with diverse burial...