The sea battle

Behind Gnewikow you can see the spire in Karwe (4) . Here in Wustrau the lake serves as a stage for a popular and well-attended spectacle that takes place each year in August.

It is 1875. The son of the old Zieten from Wustrau and the son of the old Knesebeck from Karwe are both doing their military service. "By coincidence they took their vacation at the same time ... the young men were quite good friends ... It was August, the lake was just as blue as the sky and the reed that mirrored in the lake arose to a big green wall." Both officers "agreed ... that because of a lack of a real fight Karwe and Wustrau were supposed to organize a sea battle on the lake. The Knesebecks were supposed to come from Karwe and attack the Zietens fiercely and push them back all the way to Wustrau, then the Zietens were supposed to regather and repel the Knesebecks into their reed." With the active support of young men from both villages the legendary unbloody battle started with fireworks, rockets, pin wheels, torches, ambushes, war hue and some unvoluntary splashin into the lake.
We recommend to visit the church with its cemetery. You will find the graves of the Knesebecks there. Wustrau has also an interesting museum about Brandenburg-Prussia’s history.

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