Discover Schmedeswurth

Schmedeswurth offers a distinctive cultural highlight: the village district of Auenbüttel is home to Buddhist Center Auenbüttel, a long-established Diamond Way center founded in 1980. The center’s stupa house contains a stupa built in 1996. Sixteen years separate the center’s founding and the stupa’s construction—two specific dates in the center’s history.

Buddhist culture in Auenbüttel

The center’s program lists weekly meditation practice and an information session for newcomers on Wednesday evenings. Recurring events may change; check the latest details before making plans.

Bus services to Marne and the railway station in St. Michaelisdonn help you get around the municipality. An extensive network of roads and paths connects Schmedeswurth with neighboring communities. If you plan to travel by bus, check the timetable for your travel dates.

Dithmarschen as a wider travel experience

The wider travel destination of Dithmarschen offers a broader perspective on culture and history. The Dithmarschen State Museum in Meldorf traces 1,200 years of Dithmarschen—from the wealth of the farmers’ republic to everyday rural life in the 1960s. The Dithmarschen museum landscape brings together 19 museums, run by professional staff and volunteers, across eleven locations. A long historical overview and a museum landscape spread across several locations thus offer different ways to explore regional history. Those interested in archaeological remains can find nine original archaeological monuments in the Stone Age Forest in Albersdorf, within the wider travel destination of Dithmarschen.

Practical activities are also part of what the wider destination offers: the Dithmarschen Stone Age Park includes flint knapping, archery, making Stone Age jewelry, fire-making and bread baking, among other activities. The activities on offer may vary depending on the program. The Stone Age Forest next to the Stone Age Park covers around 40 hectares of natural open space and is free to access year-round; check access information before your visit.

For walkers, the “Mötjensee and Sea Eagle” route near Lunden offers a clear point of reference: it is 12.79 kilometers long, an easy circular route and designated for flatland hiking. The first stage of the North Sea–Baltic Sea Hiking Trail is a different scale: it runs through Dithmarschen and is just under 40 kilometers long. The full long-distance trail comprises five stages and runs from Meldorf to Kiel.

The Friedrichskoog National Park Station offers insights into the natural environment. This information center with a national park exhibition is located on the south side of the harbor. Guided mudflat walks along the Dithmarschen coast are led by local National Park mudflat guides with specialist knowledge, bringing the diverse life of the Wadden Sea into view at low tide. Tides and tour dates vary. From Friedrichskoog, the Wadden Sea Conservation Station looks after the national park in southern Dithmarschen, between Meldorfer Koog and the Elbe estuary; the coastal stretch is 30 kilometers long.

Discover more destinations

Discover more destinations: Averlak, Lehe, Krumstedt, Friedrichsgabekoog, Süderdorf, Trennewurth, Nordhastedt, Nordermeldorf.

Go to the wider travel overview: Dithmarschen.