Why this ride
Out of Kropstädt, one way: 216 km, roughly 3 h 06 in the saddle.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Scharmützelsee Water Loop · part 2
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 216 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 06
- 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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Food stop near Kropstädt
Kropstädt is a small village in the forests north of Lutherstadt Wittenberg, on the southern slopes of the Fläming, a low ridge of sand and gravel left by the glaciers of the penultimate Ice Age. The village is quiet, with farmhouses, a church and fields stretching to the edge of the forest. It is the kind of place you pass through on your way to somewhere else, but the surrounding area is full of interest.
Read the complete Food stop near Kropstädt write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Food stop near Kropstädt is where the day begins. Next is Berlin motorcycle escapes return.
2. Near Lübbenau, on the way back
The Spree river does something strange in the Spreewald: instead of running in one channel, it splits into hundreds of small streams and canals that thread through a low, forested wetland southeast of Berlin. This spot lies near Lübbenau, the main town on the edge of this watery labyrinth, which has been a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1991. For centuries, people here lived on small islands of dry land, travelling by flat-bottomed punts, and some farms are still reached only by water.
Read the complete Near Lübbenau, on the way back write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Berlin motorcycle escapes return comes up about 86 km into the recorded legs. Next is Scenic stretch in Buckow.
3. Scenic stretch in Buckow
Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel spent their summers in Buckow in the 1950s, in a house by the lake, and it was here that Brecht wrote the Buckow Elegies, a series of short poems tinged with disillusion. The house is now a small museum, with Weigel's old covered wagon from Mother Courage in the barn. The playwright was not the first to fall for Buckow; the novelist Theodor Fontane praised the area, and the doctors of the nineteenth century prescribed its air for the nerves.
Read the complete Scenic stretch in Buckow 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 216 km.
Leg by leg
Food stop near Kropstädt to Near Lübbenau, on the way back
Food stop near Kropstädt → Near Lübbenau, on the way back is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.