At the old or it can be done: it used to be the case and it is today.
Photo: Image / Volker Hohlfeld
Our swimming area is still the old or. A beautiful sandy beach, we are up the mountain, you could roll down or run into the water from the top. And make wonderful murmurs. This is the best sand that has such a density, I haven’t done it as well as here as here.
The bushes on the bank are hip high this summer. Stare gather on a dead tree, the elm doubles in the water. Pond roses form leaf islands with yellow dabs along the Oderarm – an altarm with even width of about eight meters, maybe a hundred meters long. The Oder slope lowers into the water in the middle, traces lead through the sand to the next high way. We put the things off and wade in the middle of mirrored clouds. Cool wet encloses me, visibility a good meter. I swim until the next pond rose carpet when my girlfriend calls: »There was still a tree, rather not going to swim. Not that you open your stomach «.
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Anne Hahn is the author of novels and non -fiction and swims through the waters of the world for »ND«.
Lebus on the Oder. For fifteen years I have been coming several times a year to write, hike and swim. The landscape reminds me of my childhood on the Elbe. My girlfriend, also an Elbe child, joined. Everyone works for themselves, we go swimming together. My curiosity about Lebus grew with every visit. In the meantime I have held conversations with a number of people, celebrated with them, and sat by the fire. Collected voiceswritten down. The landlady of our pension tells of the bathing area.
My children were allowed to learn to swim here too. And the guests of the house. Work was done in the morning and in the afternoon you could go to the Oder. Buns were lubricated with butter and salt, water or tea, a few apples, everything on the handcart, then you’re off. And it was an unwritten law: if you did it without being accompanied, the old or to swim through, then you had the swimming stage and was also allowed to the Oder, without adults.
With his ford on the mountain bridges, Lebus was populated, contested, destroyed and continued to build up again. Next year Lebus will celebrate 800 years of city law and attract guests with the reference to spectacular nature. Adonis flower, or slopes, bike paths. Views of the Skyline Frankfurt and Ins Lebuser Land. And again and again the river. Beaver, floods and environmental disasters are changing the landscape of the Oder. All pastures have just disappeared at the bathing area, luckily I don’t rush anything. We cooled down enough, run the path back. The sun goes behind the slope, everything is immersed in pink light. A gray heron puts his head between the feathers. A young man leads shepherd dogs towards the bathing area, a bat fluttered past. We run up the Kietzer Berg, the garden, the fire and new stories.
In the past, there were more people from the town below at the bathing area. There have been gangs and you have already kept an eye on some pretty boys, the old village angels.
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