Why this ride
From Grünau it runs 251 km to Grünau; allow about 4 h 12 of riding. The stops in between: Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf, The ADGB Trade Union School, Grumsin and back through The ADGB Trade Union School.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Gartenstadt Flakenberg and Grumsin
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 251 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 12
- 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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Scenic road chapters
Gartenstadt Flakenberg → Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf
The ride follows Gartenstadt Flakenberg → Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf for 27 km.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 27 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Read the complete Gartenstadt Flakenberg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Gartenstadt Flakenberg is where the day begins. Next is Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf.
2. Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf
Bright colours were a weapon for Bruno Taut. The architect believed that good housing could change people's lives, and in the 1920s he designed several large housing estates in Berlin for working and middle class families, with light, airy flats, gardens and shared green spaces. The Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf, better known as Onkel Toms Hütte, Uncle Tom's Cabin, after a nearby inn and the underground station, was built between 1926 and 1931 on the edge of the Grunewald forest, and Taut, working with other architects, painted the houses in strong reds, greens, blues and yellows, so that the estate glows among the pine trees. It is one of the great monuments of modern housing in Germany.
Read the complete Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is The ADGB Trade Union School.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach The ADGB Trade Union School. Next is Grumsin.
4. Grumsin
North-east of Berlin, the last ice age left behind a landscape of hills, hollows and lakes, shaped by glaciers that advanced and melted back again. In one corner of it, between Angermünde and Joachimsthal, lies the Grumsin forest, a beech wood that has been left largely undisturbed for a long time. It is part of the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, inscribed as one of Germany's contributions in 2011. Old beeches tower above a forest floor scattered with fallen trunks, small ponds and bogs, and in spring the canopy glows a fresh, translucent green.
Read the complete Grumsin write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Grumsin, about halfway. Next is back through The ADGB Trade Union School.
5. back through The ADGB Trade Union School
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The ADGB Trade Union School write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through The ADGB Trade Union School sits at 170 km, about halfway. Next is back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf.
6. back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf comes up about 224 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
7. Gartenstadt Flakenberg
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gartenstadt Flakenberg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Gartenstadt Flakenberg closes the day.
Leg by leg
Gartenstadt Flakenberg to Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf
Gartenstadt Flakenberg → Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf to The ADGB Trade Union School
Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf → The ADGB Trade Union School is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The ADGB Trade Union School to Grumsin
The ADGB Trade Union School → Grumsin is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grumsin to back through The ADGB Trade Union School
Grumsin → back through The ADGB Trade Union School is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The ADGB Trade Union School to back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf
back through The ADGB Trade Union School → back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf to Gartenstadt Flakenberg
back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf → Gartenstadt Flakenberg is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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