CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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218 km from Bernau bei Berlin to Bernau bei Berlin, about 3 h 59 of riding. On the way it passes Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, Goßsiedlung Siemensstadt and back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
This part of the ride is 43 km of Wohnstadt Carl Legien → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Wohnstadt Carl Legien.
Bruno Taut liked colour, and in Berlin in the late 1920s, he used it to make social housing feel joyful. The Wohnstadt Carl Legien, built between 1928 and 1930 in Prenzlauer Berg, is a large estate of apartment blocks arranged around green courtyards that open onto the street, with facades painted in bright, contrasting colours: yellow, red, blue and green, the balconies and window frames picking out the patterns. It was named after Carl Legien, a leader of the German trade unions, and it was built by a union-affiliated housing association to provide light, air and greenery for working families. It is one of the six Berlin Modernism Housing Estates listed by UNESCO in 2008.
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Wohnstadt Carl Legien comes up about 32 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 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin.
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back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wohnstadt Carl Legien.
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Read the complete Wohnstadt Carl Legien write-up.
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back through Wohnstadt Carl Legien comes up about 187 km into the recorded legs. Next is The ADGB Trade Union School.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The ADGB Trade Union School write-up.
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The ADGB Trade Union School closes the day.
The ADGB Trade Union School → Wohnstadt Carl Legien is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wohnstadt Carl Legien → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → back through Wohnstadt Carl Legien is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wohnstadt Carl Legien → The ADGB Trade Union School is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.