Why this ride
A 192 km round trip from Weimar - roughly 4 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: Mikveh, Hainich and back through Mikveh. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Hainich
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 192 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 26
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
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.
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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. Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar
In 1919, in a small and rather provincial city best known as the home of Goethe and Schiller, an architect called Walter Gropius opened a school that changed the look of the modern world. The Bauhaus aimed to unite art and craft, to bring painters, sculptors and designers into the workshop and to design for ordinary people, and in Weimar it attracted teachers such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. The school moved to Dessau in 1925 after local political pressure, and then to Berlin, until the Nazis closed it in 1933, but in those fourteen years it set the course for modern architecture, furniture and graphic design.
Read the complete Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar is where the day begins. Next is Mikveh.
2. Mikveh
In 2007, during construction work near the Krämerbrücke in Erfurt, archaeologists uncovered a medieval ritual bath, a mikveh, beside the river Gera, which had been forgotten for centuries. It dates from the thirteenth century and was used by the city's Jewish community until the pogrom of 1349, when the community was destroyed during the panic of the Black Death. It is now protected and can be visited on guided tours. Together with the Old Synagogue and the Stone House, a medieval residence, the mikveh forms the Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt, listed by UNESCO in 2023.
Read the complete Mikveh write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mikveh comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hainich.
3. Hainich
Hainich is a long, low ridge of beech forest in the middle of Germany, and it has the distinction of being one of the few places in Europe where beech trees have been left to grow old. The national park, established in 1997, covers a large part of the ridge, and its oldest stands are part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and other Regions of Europe, a UNESCO listing. You notice the difference at once: tall, straight silver trunks, massive fallen logs covered in fungi, and a forest floor that smells of mould and mushrooms.
Read the complete Hainich write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Hainich. Next is back through Mikveh.
4. back through Mikveh
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mikveh write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mikveh, late in the day. Next is Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar.
5. Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar to Mikveh
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar → Mikveh is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mikveh to Hainich
Mikveh → Hainich is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hainich to back through Mikveh
Hainich → back through Mikveh is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mikveh to Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar
back through Mikveh → Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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