On a rather cloudy and rainy weekend, we decided to visit a town just south of Berlin called Mittenwalde. We took a train and switched in the town of Königs Wusterhausen where we took a bus that then brought us to the town of Mittenwalde not far from there. Here we got off the bus in the old town and then began our tour of the nice old city center. We started out with the northern end of the old town where we came across the Powder Tower, a 25m high medieval tower, and the Berliner Tor, a medieval city gate, facing, as the name suggests the city of Berlin to the north and once part of the medieval walls which now still partly survive in some parts of the old town. Right next to the structure was an Imbiss, a type of fast food shop, where we got some fries to eat as we walked around. The portion was really large and cost us just two euros. From there we then walked back through the city center and reaching then the Stadthausplatz, the small main square of the town, surrounded by nice typical low buildings and houses. Right next to the square was the main church, dedicated to St Moritz and which we luckily found open. Originally built in the 13th century as a fieldstone church, it was remade the following century in Brick gothic and refurbished in neogothic style at the end of the 19th century. It features a tall 67m high spire and its interior holds a nice late gothic carved altar from 1514. After the visit to the church, we made a little round through the old town and passed part of the surviving medieval walls, and then decided to head back. As we were supposed to wait quite a bit for the bus we decided instead to walk back to Königs Wusterhausen instead. We followed a trail siding the Nottekanal, an artificial canal used as a left tributary of the Dahme river. The way was straight and easy all the way to the town of Königs Wusterhausen and took just over one hour and a half. Once there we then eventually took the train back to Berlin.
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| The Powder Tower in Mittenwakde |
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| The Berliner Tor |
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| Another view of the Powder Tower |
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| St Moritz church |
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| The interior of the church |
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