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How far is the lake from Berlin? Apartment or room? What does a meeting day cost? When is the best time? The questions that reach the house every week, answered here at leisure.

Getting here
A lakeside hotel near Berlin: how far is the Werbellinsee really?
60 minutes from central Berlin, 45 from the edge of the city, by train to Eberswalde: what the distance to the Werbellinsee means for a weekend by the lake.
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Stay
Apartment or hotel room on the Werbellinsee?
Apartment with kitchen or lake view room with breakfast: five questions that decide how your family stays best on the Werbellinsee.
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Meetings
Meeting by the lake: what a room outside the city brings
Why teams work differently by the water, what a meeting day on the Werbellinsee costs and how it runs. Packages from €47 per person.
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Celebrate
Wedding on the Werbellinsee: how a day by the water unfolds
Ceremony on the roof terrace or the lawn, sparkling-wine reception on the lawn, dinner at Theodors, night in the house: what a wedding day on the Werbellinsee looks like from 2 pm to 2 am.
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Region
The Werbellinsee: swimming, water, beach
What makes the Werbellinsee so clear, when the swimming season starts, where the beach of the Fontane Hotel is and what day guests pay.
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Seasons
Sauna by the lake: why winter is the best time on the Werbellinsee
Still lake, empty paths, warm sauna, mulled wine on the winter terrace: winter is the underrated season on the Werbellinsee. Winter Magic package.
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Region
Schorfheide-Chorin: what a biosphere reserve means for your holiday
Beech forests, white-tailed eagles, cranes, more than 200 lakes: what makes the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve special and how to experience it from the Fontane Hotel.
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The house
Theodor Fontane and the Werbellinsee: the name of the house
Why a hotel on the Werbellinsee carries the name of the wanderer of the Mark, what of Fontane can be felt in the house and where the portrait in the logo comes from.
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