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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Out of Spreenhagen, one way: 206 km, roughly 3 h 36 in the saddle. The stops in between: near Letschin and near Chorin. 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.
The ride follows Lusatia Lakes and Tagebau Views fuel gate → Lusatia Lakes and Tagebau for 76 km.
Spreenhagen is a scattered rural municipality south-east of Berlin, where the River Spree winds through forests and meadows between Fürstenwalde and the capital. The villages here are small and quiet, with old churches, farmhouses and modern homes for commuters, and the landscape is a typical Brandenburg mix of pine forests, wet meadows and lakes.
Read the complete High point near Spreenhagen write-up.
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Lusatia Lakes and Tagebau Views is where the day begins. Next is Food stop near Letschin.
Frederick the Great stands on a pedestal in Letschin, and the people of the Oderbruch have good reason to remember him. In the mid-eighteenth century, the Prussian king ordered the draining of this vast marshy floodplain of the Oder, a huge engineering project that created new farmland and villages for thousands of settlers. He is said to have declared that he had conquered a province in peace. The landscape today is a flat, fertile plain of fields, ditches and dykes, stretching to the Polish border.
Read the complete Food stop near Letschin write-up.
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Food stop near Letschin is where this day stops to eat. Next is High point near Chorin.
Chorin Abbey rises out of the trees like a red brick cathedral that someone forgot to finish. Cistercian monks founded it in the thirteenth century as part of the German settlement of Brandenburg, and its towering west front is one of the finest examples of north German brick Gothic. After the Reformation it fell into ruin, and the Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel was among those who campaigned to save it in the nineteenth century. Today it hosts a well-known summer concert season and has a gentle, almost romantic air.
Read the complete High point near Chorin write-up.
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about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach High point near Chorin. Next is Scenic stretch near Gransee.
Gransee is one of the best-kept medieval towns in Brandenburg, still enclosed by almost the full ring of its brick walls, with gate towers and defensive turrets. In the middle stands the great brick Gothic church of St Mary, and on the market square a curious cast-iron monument designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel marks the spot where the coffin of Queen Louise of Prussia rested overnight in 1810 on its way to Berlin. Louise was hugely popular, and her early death caused national mourning.
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Scenic stretch near Gransee closes the day.
Fuel stop in Spreenhagen → Food stop near Letschin is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop near Letschin → High point near Chorin is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point near Chorin → Scenic stretch near Gransee is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.