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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184 km from Jawor to Jawor, about 3 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat, Centennial Hall in Wrocław and back through Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica write-up.
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Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica 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.
Read the complete Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat write-up.
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Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Centennial Hall in Wrocław.
A concrete dome sixty-five metres across looks like a modest thing to put on a World Heritage list, until you stand underneath it. The Centennial Hall in Wrocław was designed by the architect Max Berg and opened in 1913, to mark a hundred years since the Prussian uprising against Napoleon. At the time it was the largest reinforced-concrete building of its kind, and its ribbed dome, rising above a four-lobed hall and lit by a ring of windows, was a daring leap in engineering. Many early modernists took it as a sign of what concrete could do, and it still has the calm confidence of a building that did not need to apologise.
Read the complete Centennial Hall in Wrocław write-up.
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about 92 km into the recorded legs you reach Centennial Hall in Wrocław. 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, late in the day. Next is 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 at Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica. That is the ride.
Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica → Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat → Centennial Hall in Wrocław is 56 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Centennial Hall in Wrocław → back through Lutheran Church of Peace under the invocat is 56 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 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.