CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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A proper escape from Berlin motorcycle escapes with roads worth waking up for. A 633 km loop that starts and ends near Baruth, about 11 h 31 of riding. On the way it passes Scenic stretch near Premnitz, near Wittstock and near Myślibórz. near Niedergörsdorf is the high point. It crosses from Germany into Poland - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Glassblowers once worked in the forest just outside Baruth. In the eighteenth century, the counts of Solms-Baruth founded a glassworks here, using the local sand and the wood of the surrounding forests, and a village grew up around it. Glashütte, as it is still called, is now a museum village, with workshops where you can watch glass being blown, old workers' houses, a café and craft shops, a charming stop deep among pine trees.
Read the complete High point near Baruth write-up.
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Next is High point near Niedergörsdorf.
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch near Premnitz.
about 153 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Premnitz. Next is Photo stop near Wittstock.
In October 1636, on the hills south of Wittstock, a Swedish army crushed the combined forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and Saxony in one of the bloodiest battles of the Thirty Years' War. Archaeologists later found a mass grave of soldiers on the battlefield, and a museum in the tower of the old bishop's castle in Wittstock tells the story of the war and its brutal impact on ordinary people. The town itself is enclosed by one of the most complete medieval brick walls in Germany, with towers and a gate.
Read the complete Photo stop near Wittstock write-up.
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Photo stop near Wittstock, about halfway. Next is Berlin motorcycle escapes return.
Berlin has a racetrack hidden in plain sight. The AVUS, which opened in 1921 through the Grunewald forest, was both one of the first motorways in the world and a racing circuit, where drivers and riders competed at astonishing speeds on its long straights and steep, banked north curve. Racing ended long ago and the banking is gone, but the road is still there, now part of the A115 motorway, and the old grandstand and timing tower survive by the roadside. Passing them on the way into the city is a nod to history.
Baruth/Mark lies in a landscape that is flatter than most people picture when they think of Germany, a sandy basin south of Berlin in which glaciers and meltwater carved wide shallow valleys at the end of the last ice age. The valley is called the Baruther Urstromtal, and it is filled with pine woods, heath and slow ponds, with the low ridge of the Fläming rising to the south-west.