Why this ride
127 km one way from Marienfelde - plan on about 1 h 47 of riding. near Spreenhagen is the high point. Long stretches are under trees.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Spreewald Canals and Forest Roads · part 3
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 127 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 47
- 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. Marienfelde
Between 1953 and 1990, more than a million people who had fled or left East Germany passed through a camp in Marienfelde, in the far south of West Berlin. The Notaufnahmelager, the emergency reception centre, was where they were registered, questioned by Western intelligence services, housed and sent on to new lives in the West. Part of it is now a museum, with exhibits and personal stories that bring the divided city vividly to life, and it is one of the more moving places in Berlin to spend an hour.
Read the complete Marienfelde write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Spreewald Canals and Forest Roads checkpoint 8 is where the day begins. Next is High point near Spreenhagen.
2. High point near Spreenhagen
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Scenic stretch near Petershagen.
3. Scenic stretch near Petershagen
Planning note
about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Scenic stretch near Petershagen. Next is Back to Spreewald Canals.
4. Back to Spreewald Canals
The Barnim plateau looks plain until you ride it. East of Bernau and north of Berlin, it is a broad swell of land left by the glaciers, with fields of rye and rapeseed rolling to the horizon, small woods of pine and oak, and tidy villages built around churches made of fieldstone, the rough granite boulders that the ice dropped across the whole region.
Read the complete Spreewald Canals write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back to Spreewald Canals closes the day.
Leg by leg
High point near Spreenhagen to Scenic stretch near Petershagen
High point near Spreenhagen → Scenic stretch near Petershagen is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Scenic stretch near Petershagen to Back to Spreewald Canals
Scenic stretch near Petershagen → Back to Spreewald Canals is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.