The enchanting rock formation often immortalised by artists.
The picturesque Uttewalder Grund enchants with its stone gate, wild rocks and idyllic green landscape. The Uttewalder Grund stretches between the towns of Stadt Wehlen and Lohmen and offers both easy access and a variety of hiking options.
Hiking tips:
The Uttewald rock gate has a very special place in the life and work of Caspar David Friedrich. In the summer of 1800, when the painter was 25 years old, he lived here for a whole week, "between rocks and fir trees", as he later told a friend. He did not meet a soul. In 1825, he turned this intense experience into his sombre oil painting "Uttewalder Grund".
The sensation of nature as a source of knowledge: this was a defining theme for the painter throughout his life. Time and again, he sought solitude and silence, not only to see nature and the landscape, but to immerse himself in them, to feel them. "I have to surrender to what surrounds me, unite with my clouds and the rocks in order to be what I am," he writes.
The Uttewald rock gate as a photo spot:
Best time: at midday, when light (sunrays) falls into the Uttewalder Grund
Motif: Rock gate and the surrounding landscape of the Grund with mosses, ferns and the steeply rising rocks
Starting point: from Uttewalde or Stadt Wehlen (approx. 30 minutes in each case)
Public transport: S-Bahn S1 to Stadt Wehlen, then approx. 30-minute walk
Parking: Uttewalde or on the Elbe in Stadt Wehlen
Hiking tips:
- Malerweg stage 1
- Wheelchair tour: "To the rock gate in Uttewalder Grund"
- A detour into the realm of fairy tales
The Uttewald rock gate has a very special place in the life and work of Caspar David Friedrich. In the summer of 1800, when the painter was 25 years old, he lived here for a whole week, "between rocks and fir trees", as he later told a friend. He did not meet a soul. In 1825, he turned this intense experience into his sombre oil painting "Uttewalder Grund".
The sensation of nature as a source of knowledge: this was a defining theme for the painter throughout his life. Time and again, he sought solitude and silence, not only to see nature and the landscape, but to immerse himself in them, to feel them. "I have to surrender to what surrounds me, unite with my clouds and the rocks in order to be what I am," he writes.
The Uttewald rock gate as a photo spot:
Best time: at midday, when light (sunrays) falls into the Uttewalder Grund
Motif: Rock gate and the surrounding landscape of the Grund with mosses, ferns and the steeply rising rocks
Starting point: from Uttewalde or Stadt Wehlen (approx. 30 minutes in each case)
Public transport: S-Bahn S1 to Stadt Wehlen, then approx. 30-minute walk
Parking: Uttewalde or on the Elbe in Stadt Wehlen
