IFoRR Rowing Tour Brandenburg-Havel Lakes 2025 – A Windy Affair
This year's IFoRR touring trip took 13 rowers and their three accompanying partners to picturesque Brandenburg an der Havel – a city steeped in history, Gothic brick architecture, medieval monasteries, and idyllic waterways. From a centrally located hotel, we rowed daily on the surrounding rivers, lakes, and canals – always accompanied by the ambitious shore team, who provided transfers and an exciting cultural program. What was planned as a sunny summer week turned into a minor adventure due to the weather. But the wind and storm didn't stop us – they only made this trip all the more memorable.
2024 Rowing Trip Dahme – Spreewald („Amazonas Brandenburgs“)
IFoRR Dahme-Spreewald Hiking Trip through the Eyes of Maria Hafner-Althammer and Simone Emmelius. This year's hiking trip (June 2-7, 2024) truly deserved the promising title "In Brandenburg's Amazon"! For six days, we explored the river and lake landscape around Königs Wusterhausen in gig boats built in the proud years of 1890 and 1891. This year, an illustrious group of first-timers and repeat visitors gathered: a strong Mainz group consisting of Andrea and chief organizer Wolfgang Litzenburger, Dagmar and Jochen Blum, Raimund Casser, Simone and Michael Emmelius, Anne and Hartmut Jaeger, Gudrun Hebling, and…
2023 Rowing trip through the Elbe Valley near Dresden
The rowing tour begins on the first day in Bad Schandau below Königstein Fortress. On the Elbe, which meanders through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains (Saxon Switzerland), we pass Rathen in a rowing boat, located at the foot of the world-famous Bastei, and then the town of Wehlen and Pirna. In Dresden at the rowing club we stop for the first time. On the second day we row from Dresden to Meissen, past the famous silhouette of Dresden with the Semper Opera and Brühlscher Terrasse and the Elbe meadows. With the picturesque town of Meißen in mind, we reach our destination, the local rowing club. On the third day, we start from Meißen in the direction of Riesa, where we leave the boats at the rowing club. The last stage then takes us to Torgau, the end point of this rowing tour.
2022 Rowing trip across the Havel lakes around Potsdam
On this rowing trip from September 1 up to and including September 4, 2022, in addition to the Great Wannsee, which is the start and finish, we will experience the Peacock Island in Lake Jungfernsee, pass under the Glienicke Bridge into the Deep Lake, pass Potsdam to Lake Templin. Then it goes on to the Petzinsee, through the picturesque Wentowgraben, an enchanted
2019 Mit Kirchbooten durch das Weltkulturerbe
1. Tag: Speyer Heute ist Sonntag, der 6. Mai 2019. Um 14:00 Uhr treffen wir uns in Speyer zu unserer Wanderfahrt anlässlich der Rotary International Convention in Hamburg. Insgesamt haben wir 27 Anmeldungen. Wir rudern mit Kirchbooten 200 km den Rhein hinunter bis Sankt Goar. Anne und ich befinden uns auf dem Weg nach Sankt Goar. Für uns fängt die Fahrt am Ende an. In Sankt Goar fahren wir zur Rampe, an der die Boote an Land gezogen werden. Dort sind wir mit Achim verabredet, der mit dem leeren Bootsanhänger…
2019 Wanderfahrt auf der Lahn
If you go on a rowing trip, you can experience something, even if it is on the Lahn from Wetzlar to Obernhof (98 kilometers). 17 rowers from 4 rowing clubs as well as members of the "Internatio-nal Fellowship of Rowing Rotarians" (IFoRR) or more memorably: rowing Rotarians, started on Friday morning, May 3, 2019, at the Bachweide parking lot in Wetzlar for their 3-day tour on the Lahn, accompanied by the wives of four rowers who provided shore duty. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)