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 Reinickendorf it runs 86 km to Reinickendorf; allow about 1 h 48 of riding. On the way it passes Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf, Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin and back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 27 km of Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
Siedlung Schillerpark is a block of red-brick housing in Berlin's Wedding district, and it is easy to ride straight past without grasping what it is. It was designed by Bruno Taut, one of the great figures of German modernism, and built in the later 1920s as the first of the new housing estates that Berlin's reform-minded councils and cooperatives raised to give working families light, air and a balcony. Today it sits among the six Berlin Modernism Housing Estates on the UNESCO World Heritage list. It is modest in scale, with long brick walls, rounded corners, small balconies and clear colour, and its calm is the point.
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Siedlung Schillerpark is where the day begins. Next is Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf.
Bright colours were a weapon for Bruno Taut. The architect believed that good housing could change people's lives, and in the 1920s he designed several large housing estates in Berlin for working and middle class families, with light, airy flats, gardens and shared green spaces. The Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf, better known as Onkel Toms Hütte, Uncle Tom's Cabin, after a nearby inn and the underground station, was built between 1926 and 1931 on the edge of the Grunewald forest, and Taut, working with other architects, painted the houses in strong reds, greens, blues and yellows, so that the estate glows among the pine trees. It is one of the great monuments of modern housing in Germany.
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Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. Next is back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf, late in the day. Next is Siedlung Schillerpark.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Siedlung Schillerpark write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Siedlung Schillerpark. That is the ride.
Siedlung Schillerpark → Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf → Siedlung Schillerpark is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.