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 Siemensstadt it runs 372 km to Siemensstadt; allow about 5 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: The ADGB Trade Union School, Grumsin, Serrahn and back through Grumsin. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is where the day begins. 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.
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The ADGB Trade Union School comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Grumsin. Next is Serrahn.
Between the lakes of Mecklenburg, north of Berlin, a pocket of old beech forest has been left to grow for the better part of a century, and it is now one of the most unusual places in Germany. Serrahn is a part of the Müritz National Park, a few kilometres from Carpin, and its beeches were once part of a ducal hunting reserve that was protected from logging, so some trees are two hundred years old and more. The Serrahn woods are part of the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a serial site that protects the finest remaining beech forests, from Ukraine and Slovakia to Germany, Spain and Italy.
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Serrahn, about halfway. Next is back through Grumsin.
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Read the complete Grumsin write-up.
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back through Grumsin sits at 224 km, about halfway. Next is back through The ADGB Trade Union School.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The ADGB Trade Union School write-up.
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back through The ADGB Trade Union School comes up about 332 km into the recorded legs. Next is Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt closes the day.
Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt → The ADGB Trade Union School is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The ADGB Trade Union School → Grumsin is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grumsin → Serrahn is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Serrahn → back through Grumsin is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 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 → Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.