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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87 km from Dessau to Dessau, about 1 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, The Castle Church and back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 20 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
In the 1920s, the German architect Walter Gropius was asked to design housing for working families, and he approached it as an experiment in how to build well and cheaply. The Bauhaus school had moved to Dessau in 1925, and Gropius used the opportunity to build a whole estate at Torten, on the southern edge of town, with rows of simple concrete houses designed for mass production. A few years later, in 1930, he built a block of balcony-access houses nearby, in which flats were reached by open walkways on the outside rather than by internal stairs, a design that saved space and money.
Read the complete House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1 is where the day begins. Next is Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz.
In the late eighteenth century, a small German principality decided to remake its entire landscape as a work of art. Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau, inspired by travels in England and by the ideas of the Enlightenment, created a vast network of parks, gardens, palaces and estates along the Elbe and Mulde rivers, combining beauty, education and agriculture. The result, the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, is one of the earliest and largest landscape gardens in continental Europe, and it was listed by UNESCO in 2000.
Read the complete Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz write-up.
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Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Castle Church.
On 31 October 1517, according to tradition, a professor of theology named Martin Luther nailed a list of ninety five theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, challenging the sale of indulgences by the Catholic Church. Whether he actually used a hammer is debated by historians, but the theses spread rapidly across Germany and beyond, thanks to the printing press, and they sparked the Reformation, which transformed the religious, political and cultural life of Europe. The original wooden door was destroyed by fire in 1760, and in 1858 it was replaced by bronze doors bearing the text of the theses in Latin. Luther is buried inside the church, as is his friend and colleague Philipp Melanchthon.
Read the complete The Castle Church write-up.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach The Castle Church. Next is back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, late in the day. Next is House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1. That is the ride.
House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1 → Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz → The Castle Church is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Castle Church → back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz → House with Balcony access - Mittelbreite 1 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.