Why this ride
Out of Lieberose, one way: 187 km, roughly 2 h 57 in the saddle. Much of it runs through woodland.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Dahme-Heideseen Backroads · part 3
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 187 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 57
- Journey
- One way; return travel is separate
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.
Scenic road chapters
Dahme-Heideseen Backroads checkpoint 8 → Back to Dahme-Heideseen
The ride follows Dahme-Heideseen Backroads checkpoint 8 → Back to Dahme-Heideseen for 48 km.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 48 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Photo stop near Lieberose
South of Lieberose, a wide expanse of open sand and heath stretches away under the sky, so bare in places that it has been nicknamed the Lieberose desert. For decades, this was a Soviet military training area, where tanks churned the ground and fires burned the forest. After the troops left in the 1990s, the land was left to nature, and it has become a refuge for wildlife, including wolves, which returned to Germany around the turn of the millennium and have established packs in the region.
Read the complete Photo stop near Lieberose write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Photo stop near Lieberose is where the day begins. Next is Dahme-Heideseen Backroads checkpoint 8.
2. Hermsdorf
Planning note
Finish at Dahme-Heideseen Backroads checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is Back to Dahme-Heideseen.
3. Back to Dahme-Heideseen
Zehdenick is a small town on the Havel in the north of Brandenburg, and it is tied to a thing most people would not think about, bricks. In the nineteenth century, the clay pits around the town fed hundreds of brickworks that shipped their product by barge down the Havel to build Berlin, and much of the capital's tenement-blocks came from here. When the pits were abandoned they flooded, turning the district into a landscape of small lakes and channels. The Ziegeleipark at Mildenberg, a few kilometres south, preserves a ring kiln and machinery, and gives an honest picture of the industry.
Read the complete Dahme-Heideseen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 187 km.
Leg by leg
Photo stop near Lieberose to Hermsdorf
Photo stop near Lieberose → Hermsdorf is 139 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.