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: producer-declared routed record.
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Leave the city behind and spend the day on roads with texture. A 395 km loop that starts and ends near Werneuchen, about 7 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes near Zehdenick, near Liebenwalde, Scenic stretch near Werder and Kloster Lehnin.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 57 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Next is Food stop near Zehdenick.
Food stop near Zehdenick is where this day stops to eat. Next is High point near Liebenwalde.
about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach High point near Liebenwalde. Next is Scenic stretch near Werder.
Albert Einstein spent his summers in Caputh, on the shore of the Templiner See between Werder and Potsdam, in a wooden house he had built in 1929. He loved sailing on the lakes and called the house his paradise. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he left Germany and never returned. The house, a modern timber building on a hill above the village, can be visited, and it is a fascinating glimpse into the private life of a genius.
Read the complete Food stop near Werder write-up.
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Scenic stretch near Werder, about halfway. Next is Berlin motorcycle escapes return.
Lehnin Abbey was founded in 1180 by Margrave Otto I of Brandenburg, who, according to legend, fell asleep under an oak while hunting, dreamed that a white stag was attacking him, and drove it off by calling on Christ. The Cistercian monks who came from the Harz cleared the forests, drained the marshes and built a great brick church, one of the earliest examples of the north German Brick Gothic. It still stands, restored, in a quiet village surrounded by lakes and forests.
Read the complete Near Kloster Lehnin, on the way back write-up.
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Berlin motorcycle escapes return sits at 206 km, about halfway. Next is Photo stop near Sperenberg.
The Soviets called it the Forbidden City. At Wünsdorf, east of Sperenberg, the high command of the Soviet forces in Germany had its headquarters until 1994, a vast garrison town hidden in the forest, home to tens of thousands of soldiers and their families, with schools, shops and theatres, closed to ordinary Germans. Before that, the German army had its own headquarters here, with huge bunkers built in the 1930s. Guided tours of the bunkers and the old garrison offer a fascinating glimpse into the military history of the twentieth century.
Read the complete Photo stop near Sperenberg write-up.
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Photo stop near Sperenberg comes up about 268 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lehnin Abbey and Zauche Roads checkpoint 8.
Until 1989 the Berlin Wall ran right past here. Glienicke/Nordbahn, just across the boundary in Brandenburg, was home to the Entenschnabel, the duck's bill, a narrow strip of East German territory that poked into West Berlin, with houses whose gardens backed onto the Wall. Today the Mauerweg, a walking and cycling path, follows the old border line, and a few traces remain.
Read the complete Near Glienicke write-up.
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Lehnin Abbey and Zauche Roads checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Lehnin Abbey.
Werneuchen is not on anyone's list of famous places, and that is part of its charm. It sits on the Barnim plateau northeast of Berlin, a town of a little under eight thousand people surrounded by wide, open farmland, big skies and the thin line of a tree-lined road that always seems to run straight to the horizon. The ride that ends here has spent the day around Lehnin Abbey on the other side of the capital, so this is the long loop home, a different Brandenburg from the pine country in the west.
Read the complete Lehnin Abbey write-up.
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Back at Back to Lehnin Abbey. That is the ride.
Food stop near Zehdenick → High point near Liebenwalde is the logistics leg. Watch junctions, villages and speed changes, then let the roadbook do its job: move you out of the clutter without spending your best attention too early.
High point near Liebenwalde → Scenic stretch near Werder rides best with patience. Coastal roads change character with wind and visitors; keep overtakes boring and take the photo from a proper stop.
Scenic stretch near Werder → Near Kloster Lehnin, on the way back is the reward section in Berlin motorcycle escapes. Look through the bends, use legal pull-offs for photos and keep a little margin for tractors, cyclists and damp shade. The best ride here is smooth, not noisy.
Photo stop near Sperenberg → Near Glienicke can flow quickly, but only if you keep village limits and junction sightlines sacred. Fast connectors are where rides get untidy when fatigue creeps in.