Krummendeich offers a mix of waterside recreation, church history and rural scenery. The natural swimming pool, St. Nicolai, horse pastures, wide fields and meadows give the town a variety of attractions. When choosing a destination, you can weigh up whether swimming and recreational facilities, historic features of the town or the surrounding landscape best match your interests.

Natural Swimming Pool: Swimming and Recreation

The Krummendeich natural swimming pool is a public swimming and recreational facility. In addition to swimming, the facilities include table tennis, volleyball, SUP and mini golf. This means the options range from swimming to other recreational activities. The facilities may vary seasonally. If you have a particular activity in mind, check in advance whether it will be available at that time.

Facilities include toilets, showers, changing rooms and a kiosk. The facilities may change as a result of future renovations. The bathing water quality of the natural swimming pool is rated excellent under the EU classification. As bathing water ratings are time-dependent, it is advisable to check the latest status before swimming.

Landscape Around Krummendeich

Horse pastures, wide fields and meadows surround Krummendeich. This rural setting offers a different emphasis from the concentrated range of waterside recreational facilities. When choosing a place, you can therefore distinguish between a specific destination for swimming and recreation and the landscape as a separate aspect of your stay.

St. Nicolai and the Town’s History

St. Nicolai stands on the old winter dike in the center of Krummendeich. A chapel in Krummendeich was first documented in 1339. The present-day church is built of solid brick; the current tower was added in 1759. Inside the church, a gallery runs above the pews and along the east side.

The dates mark different milestones: 1339 refers to the first documented chapel, and 1759 to the addition of the current tower. The connection with the dike is different in the case of the natural swimming pool: it originated following a dike breach. The church on the old winter dike and the natural swimming pool, which originated following a dike breach, can therefore be seen as two distinct aspects of the town’s dike history.

In the Broader Stade Destination

Stade district offers a broader landscape setting: it is characterized by vast marshes along the Elbe, the cultivated landscape of the Altes Land, river valleys in the Geest and unspoiled raised bogs. These landscapes offer opportunities for local recreation and observing nature. For broader travel planning, they complement the view of the fields and meadows around Krummendeich with other types of landscape.

The district also has a network of 1,000 kilometers of signposted cycle paths. The total length may change; check the current status if you use this figure for your planning. It describes the extent of a regional network, not a single route.

In Wischhafen, the coastal motor vessel MS IRIS-JÖRG is part of the Kehdinger Coastal Shipping Museum and can be visited in the listed harbor directly alongside it. Visitors can also obtain the Kehdinger seafarer’s certificate at the museum. Along the Maritime Walk in Wischhafen, signs at many locations provide information on a range of maritime topics.

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