Rent a holiday home in Boltenhagen? Enjoy the pristine coast and cycle to the castles of Lake Schwerin!

A long white beach crowned with a Blue Flag and chalk cliffs. With this beautiful coastline, the seaside resort of Boltenhagen attracts many German holidaymakers, yet for Dutch visitors the region remains relatively undiscovered. This makes it a pleasantly tranquil destination. Still, you’ll find plenty of attractions for a successful holiday, from a tourist train to a play and miniature park. Boltenhagen also carries a Scandinavian flair, with red fishermen’s cottages in the marina and wooden houses along the promenade park. Are you looking for an accommodation on the German Baltic Sea? In the article below, read all about what you can experience from a holiday home in Boltenhagen!

Take a fascinating walk along the Steilküste

Book a holiday home in Boltenhagen and capture great adventures with your camera! Whether you walk above the cliffs or below on the narrow beach with large boulders, you can stroll for kilometres with great pleasure along cliffs of varying height. Clambering up or down is easy enough with a bit of flexibility. Children will love it, and as an adult you’ll be amazed while you reach for your camera to take stunning photos. The cliffs reach up to 35 metres, making Boltenhagen the highest cliff coast in Germany after Rügen. But also take the time to search the ground on the beach! With a bit of luck, you may find fossils here!

Hop on the trains Carolinchen and Lüttkaffee Brenner

In the area around your holiday home in Boltenhagen, you have the luxury of two travel options with a tourist train! The first is the Carolinchen, which travels along the road, past the dune coast and through the countryside to Tarnewitz. Here you can sit on the terrace of the marina with views of the fishermen’s cottages along the pier. The second option is a train on the tracks from Klütz that travels through a scenic landscape of meadows. The small station houses a museum, and before or after your train journey you can visit Schloss Bothmer: a copper-coloured palace with symmetrical wings and a tree-lined avenue flanked by hedgerows.

Tips nearby: Minimare Entdeckerpark and the Buddelschiffmuseum

An absolute recommendation for children, but worthwhile for all ages, is Minimare Entdeckerpark. Young ones will enjoy a fun play and climbing area, but there is also a miniature park with churches, palaces, city gates and a model railway with small stations. Don’t skip the Buddelschiffmuseum either! This is a world full of model ships in bottles and other maritime artefacts.

Visit the town of Wismar from your holiday home in Boltenhagen

Your mood will brighten even more with a visit to Wismar, where brick Gothic and beautifully shaped gabled houses alternate in the streetscape. Stroll along the wide canal quays and through the photogenic city gate towards the centre, looking for a cosy terrace. The St Nicholas Church, beautifully located along a narrow canal, is well worth photographing. To complete your visit, head to the Wismar Zoo to admire ring-tailed lemurs, a lynx, adorable prairie dogs, raccoons and much more.

Walk among the giant sequoias of Lenorenwald

For a beautiful forest walk from your holiday home in Boltenhagen, head to the Lenorenwald. This mixed forest features enormous conifers and a viewing tower at its edge. A climb is well worth it because of the varied views over gently rolling meadows with hedgerows and the distant sea. Leaving the forest toward the coast, you’ll pass Kalkhorst Castle, a brick-red castle with stepped gables surrounded by leafy trees. Further along you’ll find the white manor house Schloss Gross Schwansee, just a stone’s throw from the sea. Hidden tip: the rapeseed field that lies picturesquely by the coast!

Cycle to Schloss Wiligrad along Lake Schwerin

About 30 kilometres from Boltenhagen lies the large Schweriner See. This lake is perfect for a cycling tour and is known for its two castles along the shores. From Bad Kleinen, head south to Lübstorf for the first castle, Schloss Wiligrad. This is a beautiful example of brick Gothic with stepped and bell-shaped gables and two round towers. As you walk through the small park, you can admire the castle on one side and the lake on the other.

Visit the castle island of Schwerin

Pedalling further south, you will reach the most beautiful castle on the lake and one of Germany’s most prominent castles: Schloss Schwerin. This is an undeniable highlight of your cycling trip around the lake! The palace was built in a star shape and is an imposing beauty from every angle. Moreover, the Renaissance castle with its fairytale towers stands majestically above the trees along the lakeshore!

Visit the magnificent Lübeck!

From Boltenhagen, Lübeck is just an hour away, so definitely plan a day trip to this iconic Hanseatic city! The historic city with UNESCO status is recognisable by its pointed light-green church spires, the waterside warehouses and the magnificent Holstentor. A visit to Lübeck means feasting your eyes! While walking through the monumental old town, but also from a canoe or while lying on the grassy riverbanks. If you love photography, be sure to combine your city walk with a visit to the many hidden courtyards. The Malerwinkel is also a beloved picnic spot and an idyllic place to photograph the old island city.

Rent a holiday home in Boltenhagen

The beach of Boltenhagen is clean, white and long! It’s no coincidence that this seaside resort was once a beloved retreat for the well-off, and this is still clearly visible today. Besides various attractions in the area, Boltenhagen is also strategically located, with cities like Wismar reachable by bike. Yet the true charm of this region lies in its wide rolling landscape with hedgerows that leads to a low cliff coast. Are you looking for a holiday destination that guarantees beautiful photos of the German Baltic Sea coast, of Lübeck and of a fairytale castle? Then a holiday home in Boltenhagen is a perfect idea!