CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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.
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181 km from Rejon ulicy Traugutta to Rejon ulicy Traugutta, about 3 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat, Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica, back through Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica and back through Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat.
Wrocław is a city of islands and bridges on the Oder, in Lower Silesia, and it has changed hands often enough to carry several names. Under the Habsburgs, then Prussia, then Germany it was Breslau, and after 1945 it became Polish as the borders moved, with nearly the whole population exchanged. Most of today's residents came from the east, from places like Lwów, and brought their own memories and food, which gives the city a layered feel. The old centre was wrecked in the war and carefully rebuilt, so the market square looks as it did in the sixteenth century, with colourful gabled houses and a lacy Gothic town hall.
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Wrocław is where the day begins. Next is Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat.
The Church of Peace at Świdnica is one of the most unusual churches in Europe, because the law demanded it be built cheaply and fast. After the Thirty Years' War, the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 gave Silesia's Lutherans, who lived under Catholic Habsburg rule, permission to build three churches, and only three, in the whole province, at Jawor, Głogów and Świdnica. They were not allowed to use stone or brick, nor to build a tower or a spire, and they had to be outside the town walls and finished within a year. The builders responded with timber, clay and straw, and with astonishing ingenuity. The church at Świdnica, completed in 1657, is a vast half-timbered building that can hold around seven thousand people, and its interior is a baroque wonder of galleries, painted panels and a gilded pulpit, more like a theatre than a church. UNESCO listed the churches of Świdnica and Jawor in 2001.
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Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica.
After the Thirty Years' War, Silesia belonged to the Catholic Habsburgs, and Lutherans in the region were allowed only the smallest favour. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 allowed them three churches, built outside the town walls, from perishable materials, without towers or bells, and in a single year. The result, in Jawor, Świdnica and a third town that has since lost its church, was one of the most surprising buildings in Europe.
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At least about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica.
Jawor's Church of Peace is a miracle built out of necessity. After the Thirty Years' War, the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 left Silesia under the Catholic Habsburgs, who allowed their Protestant subjects to build only three churches, under strict conditions. They had to be outside the town walls, built of perishable materials, with no tower, no bells and no brick or stone, and they had to be finished within a year. The Lutherans of Jawor responded by building a church of timber, clay and straw, with a roof of thatch, beginning in 1654, and completing it in 1655.
Read the complete Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat write-up.
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Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat, about halfway. Next is back through Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat comes up about 128 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wroclaw.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wroclaw write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Wrocław closes the day.
Wrocław → Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat → Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat → back through Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica is 1 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica → back through Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat → Wroclaw is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.