CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 216 km round trip from Potsdam - roughly 4 h 04 in the saddle. The stops in between: Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt, Gartenstadt Flakenberg, The ADGB Trade Union School and back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 35 km of Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt.
Berlin's Siemensstadt began as a factory town. Werner von Siemens's company moved its electrical works to the edge of Spandau from 1899, and by the 1920s a whole district of workshops and workers' housing was growing there. The Großsiedlung Siemensstadt, built between 1929 and 1931, is one of the great modernist housing estates of that decade, designed by a team that included Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius, Hugo Häring, Otto Bartning and Fred Forbat. It is part of the UNESCO listing of Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, inscribed in 2008.
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Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
On the southeastern edge of Berlin, near the Dahme river, a few streets of small houses are painted in colours so bold that locals nicknamed the place the paint-box estate. This is the Gartenstadt Falkenberg, or Falkenberg Garden City, designed by the architect Bruno Taut and built in the years just before the First World War. Taut believed that colour could improve ordinary lives, and so he gave the terraced houses facades of deep blue, red, ochre and green, with gardens, tree-lined lanes and a central square. It was an early experiment in affordable housing for working families, and UNESCO included it in 2008 among the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Gartenstadt Flakenberg. 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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The ADGB Trade Union School, about halfway. Next is back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt write-up.
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back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt comes up about 183 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin closes the day.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt → Gartenstadt Flakenberg is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gartenstadt Flakenberg → The ADGB Trade Union School is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The ADGB Trade Union School → back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg → back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.