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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A 352 km round trip from Wittenberg - roughly 4 h 50 in the saddle. The stops in between: Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, The ADGB Trade Union School and back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The ride follows Luther Hall → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin for 85 km.
Wittenberg's Luther Hall is a big, plain, slightly forbidding building, and that is part of its charm. It began as the Augustinian monastery where Martin Luther lived as a friar, and after the Reformation it became his family home, given to him and to his wife Katharina von Bora, a former nun who ran the household with considerable firmness. You can picture a crowded place: students at the table, guests, children, a brewery's worth of hospitality. Luther taught at the university here, preached in the town church, and, according to tradition, nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of the Castle Church in 1517. Wittenberg thus became one of the places where the modern world was argued into being.
Read the complete Luther Hall write-up.
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Luther Hall 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.
Read the complete Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin write-up.
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Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete The ADGB Trade Union School write-up.
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about 176 km into the recorded legs you reach The ADGB Trade Union School. 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, late in the day. Next is Luther Hall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Luther Hall write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Luther Hall. That is the ride.
Luther Hall → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → The ADGB Trade Union School is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The ADGB Trade Union School → back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Luther Hall is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.