CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 404 km round trip from Ostrava - roughly 5 h 29 in the saddle. It goes by way of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, Birkenau, Auschwitz and Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and. It crosses from Czechia into Poland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Ostrava smells of coal, or used to, and the memory is part of its charm. For a century and a half this was the industrial heart of Czechoslovakia, a city of mines, coke ovens and steelworks on the border of Silesia, built on rich seams of black coal that ran under the plain. The last mine closed in 1994, and the great Vítkovice ironworks stopped producing iron in 1998, but the buildings were not demolished. Instead, the blast furnaces, gasholders and coking plant of the old works have been turned into a cultural quarter, and the result is among the most interesting industrial heritage sites in Central Europe.
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Ostrava is where the day begins. Next is Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
There is no right way to arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and no ride passes through it casually. This was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, built during the occupation of Poland near the town of Oświęcim, which the Germans called Auschwitz. Between 1940 and January 1945, at least 1.1 million people were murdered here, the vast majority of them Jews deported from across Europe, along with Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and many others. On 27 January 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated the camp, and that date is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day. UNESCO listed the site in 1979 as a memorial to the victims and a warning to humanity.
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Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati comes up 41 km in. Next is Birkenau.
Birkenau is the second and largest part of the Auschwitz camp complex, built by the Nazi regime from 1941 on the flat land near Brzezinka, just outside Oświęcim in southern Poland. It is where most of the million or so people murdered at Auschwitz were killed, the great majority of them Jews. The camp was meant to be seen from the entrance, with the brick gatehouse and the railway line running straight through it, and that scale is the first thing that silences visitors. There is no softening it, and nobody who goes should expect to.
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83 km in you reach Birkenau. Next is Auschwitz.
This is a stop to make in silence. Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps, built in occupied Poland on the edge of the town of Oświęcim, and between 1940 and 1945 around 1.1 million people were murdered here, the vast majority of them Jews from across Europe, along with Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others. The memorial and museum, which includes the original camp, Auschwitz I, and the vast camp at Birkenau, Auschwitz II, about three kilometres away, was listed by UNESCO in 1979 as a reminder of the cruelty of humanity.
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Auschwitz, about halfway. Next is Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
Upper Silesia is Poland's industrial heart, a densely built region of coal mines, steelworks, spoil heaps and tidy brick housing, and at its northern edge lies Tarnowskie Gory, a town of about sixty thousand people that grew up around silver, lead and zinc. The mine and its underground water system were inscribed by UNESCO in 2017, and the town's historic centre is about a kilometre from the entrance. Katowice, the regional capital, is some thirty kilometres to the south-east.
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Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Auschwitz.
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back through Auschwitz comes up 207 km in. Next is back through Birkenau.
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248 km in you reach back through Birkenau. Next is back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
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back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, late in the day. Next is Ostrava.
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The route ends here after 404 km.
Ostrava → Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Birkenau → Auschwitz is 4 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Auschwitz → Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and → back through Auschwitz is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Auschwitz → back through Birkenau is 4 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati → Ostrava is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.