CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Wittenberg it runs 356 km to Wittenberg; allow about 5 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr., Luther's birthplace, Collegiate Church and back through Luther's birthplace. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 77 km of House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. → Luther's birthplace.
Wittenberg had two giants, and Philipp Melanchthon was the quieter one. Born in 1497 in Bretten, in southwest Germany, he came to Wittenberg at twenty-one to teach Greek at the university, and he stayed for forty-two years. He was a brilliant scholar, a shy man with a gentle manner, and he became Luther's closest collaborator. Luther was the preacher and fighter, and Melanchthon was the thinker and writer. He drafted the Augsburg Confession of 1530, the founding statement of the Lutheran church, and he reformed the German school system so thoroughly that he was called the Teacher of Germany.
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Melanchthon’s house is where the day begins. Next is House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr., 56 km on.
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.
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House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. comes up 56 km in. Next is 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.
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113 km in you reach Luther's birthplace. Next is Collegiate Church.
High on a rock above Quedlinburg stands the Collegiate Church of St Servatius, a heavy Romanesque church that is one of the most important of its kind in Germany. The first church on the hill was connected to the Ottonian kings, and Henry the Fowler, the first king of the East Frankish realm in the early tenth century, was buried here. His widow Mathilda founded a convent of noblewomen on the site, which became powerful, with abbesses who were often relatives of the emperors and ran a small state of their own.
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Collegiate Church, about halfway. Next is back through Luther's birthplace.
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Read the complete Luther's birthplace write-up.
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back through Luther's birthplace sits at 225 km, about halfway. Next is back through House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr., 57 km on.
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Read the complete House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. write-up.
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back through House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. comes up 282 km in. Next is Melanchthon’s house.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Melanchthon’s house write-up.
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Melanchthon’s house closes the day.
Melanchthon’s house → House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luther's birthplace → Collegiate Church is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Collegiate Church → back through Luther's birthplace is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Luther's birthplace → back through House with Balcony access - Peterholzstr. is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.