Transportation

Almost all farmsteads in Lehde are easily accessible from the water, whereas even today only a few farmsteads can be reached directly from the land. What the village road and country lanes are elsewhere, the rivers are here. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were only waterways in Lehde. There has only been a small road from Lübbenau to the village of Lehde since 1929.

This is why the barge is still a common and daily means of transportation today. Everything that is too big or too heavy to be carried over the narrow stepped bridges is transported by water. There are also two loading points or landing stages for handling all kinds of goods. In Lehde on the “Dolzke”, but especially in Lübbenau at the “Schneidemühle”, there is a loading point that can also be served by larger trucks.

All building materials, fuels and furniture are unloaded, loaded or reloaded from there. It’s like a small freight port.
But in our everyday life, too, all transportation is done by water, whether livestock, manure, tractors or hay, everything is taken by barge. Garbage collection and post are also transported by water to every farm.

If a single barge is not enough, two barges are tied together side by side to form a so-called “double barge”, which can carry even more cargo. However, you will only be able to observe such transports in the early morning or late evening hours, as the tourist traffic on our rivers is too dense during the day.