CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Leipzig it runs 341 km to Leipzig; allow about 4 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Naumburg Cathedral, House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1, House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 6 and back through House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 59 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
On Monday evenings in the autumn of 1989, thousands of people gathered at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig after the prayers for peace and walked around the ring road with candles, chanting that they were the people. The East German state could have sent in the tanks, and did not, and within weeks the Berlin Wall had fallen. Leipzig is proud of that, and rightly. The church still stands in its quiet square, with a classical interior of slender palm-like pillars in pastel colours, and a plaque outside records the demonstrations.
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Leipzig is where the day begins. Next is Naumburg Cathedral.
The twelve figures in the west choir of Naumburg Cathedral are among the most famous sculptures of the Middle Ages, and once you have seen them, you understand why. Carved around the middle of the thirteenth century by an unknown artist known as the Naumburg Master, they represent the founders and benefactors of the cathedral, noblemen and noblewomen who had died two centuries earlier, but they look like real people, with individual faces, expressions and gestures. The most famous is Uta, the wife of Margrave Ekkehard, standing with her cloak drawn up to her face, cool and enigmatic, who has become an icon of German art. The cathedral, with its Romanesque and Gothic architecture and its rich sculpture, was listed by UNESCO in 2018.
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Naumburg Cathedral comes up 41 km in. Next is Naumburg Cathedral.
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83 km in you reach Naumburg Cathedral. Next is House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1.
In the 1920s, the German architect Walter Gropius was asked to design housing for working families, and he approached it as an experiment in how to build well and cheaply. The Bauhaus school had moved to Dessau in 1925, and Gropius used the opportunity to build a whole estate at Torten, on the southern edge of town, with rows of simple concrete houses designed for mass production. A few years later, in 1930, he built a block of balcony-access houses nearby, in which flats were reached by open walkways on the outside rather than by internal stairs, a design that saved space and money.
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House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1, about halfway. Next is House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 6.
Hannes Meyer was a Swiss architect and the second director of the Bauhaus, and in Dessau he designed a row of houses that put his ideas into concrete form. The Laubenganghäuser in Törten, finished around 1930, are blocks of flats reached by external walkways, the balcony access, so that each floor has a long open gallery along the front. It was a cheap, efficient way to give small flats light and ventilation, and it was an experiment in social housing, in an age when a decent flat was a political question.
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House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 6 sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1.
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back through House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1 comes up 207 km in. Next is back through Naumburg Cathedral.
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248 km in you reach back through Naumburg Cathedral. Next is back through Naumburg Cathedral.
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back through Naumburg Cathedral, late in the day. Next is Leipzig.
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The route ends here after 341 km.
Leipzig → Naumburg Cathedral is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Naumburg Cathedral → House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1 is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1 → back through Naumburg Cathedral is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Naumburg Cathedral → Leipzig is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.