Why this ride
215 km from Britz to Britz, about 4 h 10 of riding. It goes by way of Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt, back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt and back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Großsiedlung Britz and Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 215 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 10
- 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. 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 is where the day begins. Next is Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
2. 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
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt.
3. 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
about 74 km into the recorded legs you reach Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt.
4. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, about halfway. Next is back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt.
5. back through 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 through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
6. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin comes up about 175 km into the recorded legs. Next is Großsiedlung Britz.
7. 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
Großsiedlung Britz closes the day.
Leg by leg
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 Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt
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.
Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt to Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
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 to back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt to back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt → back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin to Großsiedlung Britz
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Großsiedlung Britz is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.