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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A 351 km round trip from Wittenberg - roughly 4 h 46 in the saddle. On the way it passes Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, The ADGB Trade Union School and back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The ride follows The Castle Church → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin for 84 km.
On 31 October 1517, according to tradition, a professor of theology named Martin Luther nailed a list of ninety five theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, challenging the sale of indulgences by the Catholic Church. Whether he actually used a hammer is debated by historians, but the theses spread rapidly across Germany and beyond, thanks to the printing press, and they sparked the Reformation, which transformed the religious, political and cultural life of Europe. The original wooden door was destroyed by fire in 1760, and in 1858 it was replaced by bronze doors bearing the text of the theses in Latin. Luther is buried inside the church, as is his friend and colleague Philipp Melanchthon.
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The Castle Church 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 84 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 176 km into the recorded legs you reach The ADGB Trade Union School. 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 Castle Church.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Castle Church write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The Castle Church. That is the ride.
The Castle Church → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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.
The ADGB Trade Union School → back through Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 91 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 Castle Church is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.