Why this ride
A 353 km round trip from Dessau - roughly 5 h 00 in the saddle. On the way it passes Luther's birthplace, Classical Weimar and back through Luther's birthplace. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. and Classical Weimar
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 353 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 00
- 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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. → Luther's birthplace
This part of the ride is 82 km of House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. → Luther's birthplace.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 82 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr.
Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus, believed that architecture should serve the needs of the people, not the egos of architects, and the five apartment buildings he designed with Bauhaus students in Dessau-Törten in 1929 and 1930 are an expression of that belief. The Laubenganghäuser, houses with balcony access, are three-storey brick buildings with external walkways along the facades giving access to the apartments, a cheap and efficient way to provide affordable housing for workers. The buildings on Peterholzstraße were added to the UNESCO listing of the Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau in 2017.
Read the complete House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. is where the day begins. Next is Luther's birthplace.
2. Luther's birthplace
Martin Luther was born in Eisleben on 10 November 1483, and by an odd twist of fate he died here too, in 1546, while on a visit to settle a dispute between the counts of Mansfeld. The house where he was born was rebuilt after a fire in the seventeenth century and became one of the first museums in Germany dedicated to a single person. Together with the house where he died and the sites in Wittenberg where he lived and taught, it forms the UNESCO site of the Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg, listed in 1996. The museum tells the story of Luther's family, his childhood and the beginning of the Reformation, and it has been extended with modern exhibitions.
Read the complete Luther's birthplace write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Luther's birthplace comes up about 82 km into the recorded legs. Next is Classical Weimar.
3. Classical Weimar
Weimar is small, about 65,000 people, and for a few decades around 1800 it was the cultural capital of the German-speaking world. Goethe moved here in 1775 at the invitation of the young Duke Carl August, and stayed for most of his life. Schiller came later, Herder and Wieland were already in town, and together they made the little court a place where poetry, philosophy and theatre were taken very seriously. The Goethe house on the Frauenplan and Schiller's house nearby are open to visitors, and the Park an der Ilm, a landscaped garden along the river, has Goethe's garden house. The UNESCO listing covers these and other buildings of the era.
Read the complete Classical Weimar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 177 km into the recorded legs you reach Classical Weimar. Next is back through Luther's birthplace.
4. back through Luther's birthplace
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Luther's birthplace write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Luther's birthplace, late in the day. Next is House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr., 81 km on.
5. House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr.. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Luther's birthplace to Classical Weimar
Luther's birthplace → Classical Weimar is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Classical Weimar to back through Luther's birthplace
Classical Weimar → back through Luther's birthplace is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Luther's birthplace to House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr.
back through Luther's birthplace → House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.