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 Erfurt it runs 273 km to Erfurt; allow about 4 h 51 of riding. It goes by way of The former School of Applied Art, Naumburg Cathedral, Luther's birthplace and back through Naumburg Cathedral. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
52 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it — speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
58 km on Naumburg Cathedral → Luther's birthplace.
In 2007, during construction work near the Krämerbrücke in Erfurt, archaeologists uncovered a medieval ritual bath, a mikveh, beside the river Gera, which had been forgotten for centuries. It dates from the thirteenth century and was used by the city's Jewish community until the pogrom of 1349, when the community was destroyed during the panic of the Black Death. It is now protected and can be visited on guided tours. Together with the Old Synagogue and the Stone House, a medieval residence, the mikveh forms the Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt, listed by UNESCO in 2023.
Read the complete Mikveh write-up.
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Mikveh is where the day begins. Next is The former School of Applied Art.
Weimar is a small city with a very large place in German culture. Goethe and Schiller lived and worked here, Liszt composed and taught, Nietzsche spent his last years here, and in 1919 the national assembly that created Germany's first democratic constitution met in the theatre, giving the Weimar Republic its name. That same year, the architect Walter Gropius founded a new art school in the city, merging the academy of fine arts with the school of applied arts, and called it the Bauhaus. The school building designed earlier by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde, along with the main building of the art academy, became its home. These buildings, together with the Haus am Horn, are part of the UNESCO serial site of the Bauhaus and its sites, inscribed in 1996.
Read the complete The former School of Applied Art write-up.
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The former School of Applied Art comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Naumburg Cathedral.
The twelve figures in the west choir of Naumburg Cathedral are among the most famous sculptures of the Middle Ages, and once you have seen them, you understand why. Carved around the middle of the thirteenth century by an unknown artist known as the Naumburg Master, they represent the founders and benefactors of the cathedral, noblemen and noblewomen who had died two centuries earlier, but they look like real people, with individual faces, expressions and gestures. The most famous is Uta, the wife of Margrave Ekkehard, standing with her cloak drawn up to her face, cool and enigmatic, who has become an icon of German art. The cathedral, with its Romanesque and Gothic architecture and its rich sculpture, was listed by UNESCO in 2018.
Read the complete Naumburg Cathedral write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Naumburg Cathedral. 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.
Read the complete Luther's birthplace write-up.
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Luther's birthplace, about halfway. Next is back through Naumburg Cathedral.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Naumburg Cathedral write-up.
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back through Naumburg Cathedral sits at 189 km, about halfway. Next is back through The former School of Applied Art.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The former School of Applied Art write-up.
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back through The former School of Applied Art comes up about 244 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mikveh.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mikveh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mikveh closes the day.
Mikveh → The former School of Applied Art is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The former School of Applied Art → Naumburg Cathedral is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Naumburg Cathedral → Luther's birthplace is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Luther's birthplace → back through Naumburg Cathedral is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Naumburg Cathedral → back through The former School of Applied Art is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The former School of Applied Art → Mikveh is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.