Why this ride
Built for flow, views and useful stops rather than navigation busywork. Out of Berlin and back again: 252 km, roughly 5 h in the saddle. The plan has 1 food stop marked.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Cottbus Spreewald South Arc
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 252 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 01
- Journey
- Loop
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Berlin
The tower, finished in 1969 and 368 metres high, is the tallest structure in Germany and can be seen from nearly everywhere in the city. It was built by the East German government as a showpiece of socialist engineering, and when the sun hits its steel sphere, it throws a cross of light that Berliners cheekily called the Pope's revenge.
2. Cottbus
Cottbus is the capital of Lower Lusatia, a city on the Spree about 120 kilometres south-east of Berlin, and it is a better lunch stop than its reputation outside Brandenburg suggests. The street signs are bilingual, German and Lower Sorbian, a reminder that the Slavic Wends have lived in this region for well over a thousand years. The old market square is handsome after careful restoration, and the Art Nouveau state theatre ranks among the finest buildings of its kind in eastern Germany.
3. Berlin
Return visit. Read the place description above.