CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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310 km from Mitte to Mitte, about 4 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Gartenstadt Flakenberg, The ADGB Trade Union School, Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin and back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
22 km on Berlin → Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
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.
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Berlin is where the day begins. Next is Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
On the southeastern edge of Berlin, near the Dahme river, a few streets of small houses are painted in colours so bold that locals nicknamed the place the paint-box estate. This is the Gartenstadt Falkenberg, or Falkenberg Garden City, designed by the architect Bruno Taut and built in the years just before the First World War. Taut believed that colour could improve ordinary lives, and so he gave the terraced houses facades of deep blue, red, ochre and green, with gardens, tree-lined lanes and a central square. It was an early experiment in affordable housing for working families, and UNESCO included it in 2008 among the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
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Gartenstadt Flakenberg comes up 33 km in. Next is The ADGB Trade Union School.
In the pine woods just outside Bernau, north of Berlin, a cluster of yellow brick buildings steps down a gentle slope toward a lake, and it is one of the purest expressions of Bauhaus architecture anywhere. The Federal School of the General German Trade Union Federation, known by its German initials ADGB, was designed by Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus, with Hans Wittwer, and built between 1928 and 1930 as a training college for union officials. Every detail, from the arrangement of the dormitory wings in staggered blocks to the glass corridor that runs down the slope, was designed to encourage community, light and a healthy life. It was added to the UNESCO Bauhaus site in 2017.
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66 km in you reach The ADGB Trade Union School. Next is Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
Potsdam lies just outside Berlin, in a landscape of lakes, rivers and woods along the Havel, and for over two centuries it was the summer residence of the Prussian kings and German emperors. Frederick the Great built the palace of Sanssouci here in the 1740s, a single-storey Rococo palace above terraced vineyards, where he wanted to live without worries, as its name suggests. His successors added more palaces, gardens and follies, and today the ensemble, together with sites in Berlin, forms one of Germany's largest UNESCO World Heritage sites.
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Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, about halfway.
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Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin sits at 132 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin comes up 164 km in. Next is back through The ADGB Trade Union School.
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197 km in you reach back through The ADGB Trade Union School. Next is back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
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back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg, late in the day. Next is Berlin.
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The route ends here after 310 km.
Berlin → Gartenstadt Flakenberg is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gartenstadt Flakenberg → The ADGB Trade Union School is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The ADGB Trade Union School → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → back through The ADGB Trade Union School is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The ADGB Trade Union School → back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg → Berlin is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.