Angermünde brings together a variety of discoveries: a historic old town under heritage protection, a museum with archaeological finds, and an animal park. When looking for a place to stay, it is worth first considering which of these themes you want to shape your visit. This makes it easier to choose a hotel based on the destination you want to experience in Angermünde.
Old Town, Museum and St. Mary’s Church
The Angermünde Museum has an extensive archaeological collection, including ceramic vessels from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. The permanent exhibition “History and Stories” presents discoveries in Angermünde and stories associated with Ehm Welk. Those interested in the town’s past will find both archaeological objects and insights into stories from Angermünde here.
Another focus of the town’s history is St. Mary’s Church in Angermünde. It was completed around 1250 as the town’s parish church and has largely retained its original condition. The church houses the Wagner organ, built between 1742 and 1744. It has 30 stops and around 2,000 sounding pipes. The protected historic old town provides a fitting setting for a stay focused on architectural history and culture.
One distinctive feature of the townscape is the Powder Tower: it is 21 metres high and extends 3.50 metres below ground. Stone sculptures made from Ice Age granite boulders weighing several hundredweight stand along the Mündesee promenade. They were created in connection with the hard-stone symposia held in Angermünde from 1997 onwards. The promenade was laid out where ramparts once stood to ward off attackers.
Guided tours and independent discoveries
There are different ways to explore the historic town centre. A guided town tour lasts 1.5 hours and leads through small, narrow lanes alongside a historic town wall. A digital audio guide also takes visitors on a circular route of approximately 2.5 kilometres to sights and places of historical significance. You can gauge the guided tour by its duration and the audio guide by the approximate length of its route. Choose the format that best suits your plans.
Angermünde Animal Park
The animal park offers a different focus from the old town and museum. The seven-hectare park is home to around 250 animals from 45 species across all continents. Its facilities include petting enclosures with ponies, goats and guinea pigs, as well as an adventure playground. If you include the animal park in your stay, you will find these specific visitor areas alongside its range of animal species.
The zoo school also offers themed tours, animal safaris, project days and hiking days. These activities give the animal park a distinct educational and experiential focus. When planning, you can therefore decide whether you mainly want to discover the animals and park areas or focus on an activity offered by the zoo school.
Plan your stay and excursions
If you are planning a longer tour, Park & Ride is available at Angermünde station for the Monastery Tour. This information applies to this tour and can be taken into account when preparing for it.
The Uckermark as a broader travel destination
Beyond Angermünde, the Uckermark offers its own distinctive landscape. It has more than 500 lakes as well as thousands of small ponds, kettle holes, bogs, streams and rivers. The Uckermärkische Seen Nature Park lies amid the Uckermark’s abundant waters and gently rolling landscape, and includes clear-water lakes, kettle holes and bogs. Hiking and water routes have their own regional figures: the nature park offers more than 150 kilometres of water trails and over 600 kilometres of signposted hiking trails. The Uckermark as a whole has 1,200 kilometres of designated hiking trails.
The Lower Oder Valley National Park is also part of the broader Uckermark destination. It lies on the eastern edge of the region and is directly connected to the Oder River and neighbouring Poland. Accompanied by certified canoe guides, visitors can paddle along several routes through narrow former branches of the Oder; depending on the route, trips are available from May or July through November.
Another regional cultural option is the Gramzow Railway Museum. It displays historic railway vehicles from different periods, as well as exhibitions on track construction, workshop operations, railway operations and traffic services, and technical installations outdoors and in buildings. On operating days, visitors can ride on historic railway vehicles; they can also drive draisines themselves. These activities are part of the Uckermark and complement Angermünde’s own town history with a different regional focus.
Discover more destinations: Herzsprung, Frauenhagen, Milmersdorf, Randowtal, Boitzenburger Land, Zichow, Carmzow-Wallmow, Passow.
Go to the broader travel overview: Uckermark.
