Cul­ture, leisure and sport

A pure na­ture ex­pe­ri­ence at the Ro­s­tocker Heide

Few Ger­man cities have a city for­est larger than Ro­s­tock’s. The Ro­s­tocker Heide, which stretches along the Baltic coast from Mark­grafen­heide to the Baltic sea­side re­sort of Graal-Müritz, spans 6,000 hectares. Once a hunt­ing dis­trict and tim­ber store for the con­struc­tion of houses and ships, the Ro­s­tocker Heide, with its dis­tinc­tive, health-pro­mot­ing cli­mate, is to­day a unique recre­ation area for hik­ing, cy­cling and horse-rid­ing – a var­ied land­scape of beech and pine forests, wet­lands and sea sand. 87 kilo­me­tres of bik­ing and hik­ing trails and 60 kilo­me­tres of horse-rid­ing tracks make it per­fect for ex­plor­ing on your own. Catch the oc­ca­sional glimpse of the sea and beach, and ad­mire cen­turies-old up­right and wind-bent trees.