Why this ride
A rider’s loop: clean exit, memorable middle, calm return. Out of Berlin and back again: 165 km, roughly 2 h 02 in the saddle. The plan has 1 food stop marked.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Neuruppin Ruppiner Schweiz
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 165 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 02
- 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. Neuruppin
Two of the most important figures in Prussian culture were born in Neuruppin: the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1781 and the novelist Theodor Fontane in 1819. Fontane went on to write the Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, a multi-volume account of his travels through the region, and the first volume opens with the county of Ruppin. Reading even a few pages before riding these roads gives them a depth they might otherwise lack.
3. Berlin
Return visit. Read the place description above.