CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 307 km round trip from Bernau bei Berlin - roughly 5 h 42 in the saddle. It goes by way of Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, Siedlung Schillerpark and back through Siedlung Schillerpark. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 37 km of Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Be.
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.
Read the complete The ADGB Trade Union School write-up.
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The ADGB Trade Union School is where the day begins. Next is Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
Most World Heritage sites are palaces, cathedrals or ruins. Berlin got onto the list in 2008 with flats. The Berlin Modernism Housing Estates are six residential developments built between 1910 and 1933, among them the Hufeisensiedlung in Britz, shaped like a horseshoe around a pond, the Gartenstadt Falkenberg with its bright colours, the Weisse Stadt in Reinickendorf and the Siemensstadt estate. Architects such as Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner and Walter Gropius designed them to give ordinary working families light, air, green space and decent bathrooms at a time when many Berliners lived in dark, cramped tenement blocks around courtyards.
Read the complete Berlin Modernism Housing Estates write-up.
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Berlin Modernism Housing Estates comes up about 38 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.
Read the complete Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. Next is Siedlung Schillerpark.
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.
Read the complete Siedlung Schillerpark write-up.
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Siedlung Schillerpark, about halfway. 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.
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Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Siedlung Schillerpark.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Siedlung Schillerpark write-up.
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back through Siedlung Schillerpark comes up about 193 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through 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.
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about 231 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. Next is back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berlin Modernism Housing Estates write-up.
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back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, late in the day. 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 route ends here after 307 km.
The ADGB Trade Union School → Berlin Modernism Housing Estates is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Siedlung Schillerpark is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Siedlung Schillerpark → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → back through Siedlung Schillerpark is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Siedlung Schillerpark → back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 38 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 Berlin Modernism Housing Estates is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Berlin Modernism Housing Estates → The ADGB Trade Union School is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.