CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 219 km round trip from Siemensstadt - roughly 4 h 02 in the saddle. On the way it passes Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, The ADGB Trade Union School and back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
This part of the ride is 33 km of Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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.
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Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
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.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berlin Modernism Housing Estates write-up.
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back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin comes up about 184 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 → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Berlin Modernism Housing Estates is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → The ADGB Trade Union School is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The ADGB Trade Union School → back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.