Many centuries ago, the beautiful Count's daughter Amelie fell in love with a young man of low status named Jakob. The girl's parents forbade their daughter to have this contact, and since she did not comply, they sent her to the monastery in Lindow in the Ruppiner Land, picturesquely located on the Wutzsee, for a strict and befitting education.
The girl's parents forbade their daughter to have this contact, and since she did not comply, they sent her to the monastery in Lindow in the Ruppiner Land, picturesquely located on the Wutzsee, for a strict and befitting education.
Here she initially lived very unhappily and mourned her love, but later developed into an herbal healer. Jacob followed her. His attempt to free her through a hole in the monastery wall, where he had spent a long time scraping and scratching, failed. But with the help of a ruse they finally managed to escape. Nobody knows anything exactly about their whereabouts.
Nobody knows anything exactly about their whereabouts.
But with the help of a ruse they finally managed to escape. Nobody knows anything exactly about their whereabouts.
However, a little later a medicinal plant, the "Amelie herb", came into circulation, with its help many sick people were helped.
The place where the monastery wall once stood is still unsafe today: anyone who passes there around midnight will hear a distinct scratching and scratching sound and will be sure to reach their destination quickly and safely.
To commemorate this story from the Middle Ages, the Lentzk sculptor Peter Maria Stajkoski carved the sculpture out of a monolith.
It has a height of 2.15m without the island stone and weighs approx. 1350kg.
The granite stone is Striegau granite. Every year on the 2nd weekend in July a “Beautiful Nun” is chosen for the Three Lakes Festival. She even takes part in the boat parade on the Gudelack.
