Why this ride
From Siemensstadt it runs 118 km to Siemensstadt; allow about 2 h 18 of riding. It goes by way of Großsiedlung Britz, Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin and back through Großsiedlung Britz. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt and Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 118 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 18
- 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
Großsiedlung Britz → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
This part of the ride is 39 km of Großsiedlung Britz → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 39 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt
Berlin's Siemensstadt began as a factory town. Werner von Siemens's company moved its electrical works to the edge of Spandau from 1899, and by the 1920s a whole district of workshops and workers' housing was growing there. The Großsiedlung Siemensstadt, built between 1929 and 1931, is one of the great modernist housing estates of that decade, designed by a team that included Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius, Hugo Häring, Otto Bartning and Fred Forbat. It is part of the UNESCO listing of Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, inscribed in 2008.
Read the complete Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is where the day begins. Next is Großsiedlung Britz.
2. Großsiedlung Britz
From above, the Hufeisensiedlung, the Horseshoe Estate, looks like a giant horseshoe wrapped around a pond, and from the ground it looks like something rarer, a housing project that people actually love. It was designed by Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner between 1925 and 1930 for a cooperative, as part of the effort in Weimar-era Berlin to give working families light, air and gardens instead of the dark tenements of the nineteenth century. Rows of low terraced houses with their own small gardens curve around a central green, and the façades are painted in strong colours, notably a long blue wall. It is one of six Berlin housing estates that UNESCO listed together in 2008 as examples of modern housing reform.
Read the complete Großsiedlung Britz write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Großsiedlung Britz comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
3. Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Potsdam lies just outside Berlin, in a landscape of lakes, rivers and woods along the Havel, and for over two centuries it was the summer residence of the Prussian kings and German emperors. Frederick the Great built the palace of Sanssouci here in the 1740s, a single-storey Rococo palace above terraced vineyards, where he wanted to live without worries, as its name suggests. His successors added more palaces, gardens and follies, and today the ensemble, together with sites in Berlin, forms one of Germany's largest UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Read the complete Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. Next is back through Großsiedlung Britz.
4. back through Großsiedlung Britz
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Großsiedlung Britz write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Großsiedlung Britz, late in the day. Next is Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt.
5. Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt to Großsiedlung Britz
Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt → Großsiedlung Britz is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Großsiedlung Britz to Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Großsiedlung Britz → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin to back through Großsiedlung Britz
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → back through Großsiedlung Britz is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Großsiedlung Britz to Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt
back through Großsiedlung Britz → Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.