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 Bernau bei Berlin it runs 352 km to Bernau bei Berlin; allow about 4 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, The Town Church and back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 91 km of The ADGB Trade Union School → 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 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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Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Town Church.
Wittenberg is a small town on the Elbe, in flat sandy country, and it is the place where the Reformation began. The Town Church of St Mary was the church where Martin Luther preached for decades, and where in 1525 he was married to Katharina von Bora, a former nun. The twin towers rise over the market square, and the interior holds an altarpiece painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, finished in the 1540s, which shows the Lord's Supper, baptism, confession and preaching, illustrating the new Protestant ideas in a way ordinary people could grasp. Luther himself and his friends appear in the paintings.
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about 176 km into the recorded legs you reach The Town Church. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The ADGB Trade Union School. That is the ride.
The ADGB Trade Union School → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → The Town Church is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Town Church → back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → The ADGB Trade Union School is 92 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.