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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From Kreuzberg it runs 129 km to Kreuzberg; allow about 2 h 33 of riding. It goes by way of Gartenstadt Flakenberg, The ADGB Trade Union School and back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → Gartenstadt Flakenberg for 20 km.
Most World Heritage sites are palaces, cathedrals or ruins. Berlin got onto the list in 2008 with flats. The Berlin Modernism Housing Estates are six residential developments built between 1910 and 1933, among them the Hufeisensiedlung in Britz, shaped like a horseshoe around a pond, the Gartenstadt Falkenberg with its bright colours, the Weisse Stadt in Reinickendorf and the Siemensstadt estate. Architects such as Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner and Walter Gropius designed them to give ordinary working families light, air, green space and decent bathrooms at a time when many Berliners lived in dark, cramped tenement blocks around courtyards.
Read the complete Berlin Modernism Housing Estates write-up.
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Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 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 about 20 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete The ADGB Trade Union School write-up.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach The ADGB Trade Union School. Next is back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gartenstadt Flakenberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg, late in the day. Next is Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berlin Modernism Housing Estates write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. That is the ride.
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → Gartenstadt Flakenberg is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gartenstadt Flakenberg → The ADGB Trade Union School is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 Modernism Housing Estates is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.