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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From Wittenberg it runs 353 km to Wittenberg; allow about 4 h 49 of riding. 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. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
85 km on Melanchthon’s house → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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 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 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.
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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.
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back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, late in the day. Next is Melanchthon’s house.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Melanchthon’s house write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Melanchthon’s house. That is the ride.
Melanchthon’s house → 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 → Melanchthon’s house is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.