CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 324 km round trip from Angermünde - roughly 5 h 31 in the saddle. The stops in between: The ADGB Trade Union School, Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin and Siedlung Schillerpark. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
37 km on Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Be.
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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Grumsin 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 47 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 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. 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, about halfway. Next is Siedlung Schillerpark.
Siedlung Schillerpark is a block of red-brick housing in Berlin's Wedding district, and it is easy to ride straight past without grasping what it is. It was designed by Bruno Taut, one of the great figures of German modernism, and built in the later 1920s as the first of the new housing estates that Berlin's reform-minded councils and cooperatives raised to give working families light, air and a balcony. Today it sits among the six Berlin Modernism Housing Estates on the UNESCO World Heritage list. It is modest in scale, with long brick walls, rounded corners, small balconies and clear colour, and its calm is the point.
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Siedlung Schillerpark sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin comes up about 200 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
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Read the complete Berlin Modernism Housing Estates write-up.
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about 238 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. Next is back through The ADGB Trade Union School.
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Read the complete The ADGB Trade Union School write-up.
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back through The ADGB Trade Union School, late in the day. Next is Grumsin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grumsin write-up.
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The route ends here after 324 km.
Grumsin → The ADGB Trade Union School is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The ADGB Trade Union School → Berlin Modernism Housing Estates is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Siedlung Schillerpark is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Siedlung Schillerpark → back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → 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 The ADGB Trade Union School is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The ADGB Trade Union School → Grumsin is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.