Why this ride
A 355 km round trip from Weimar - roughly 4 h 53 in the saddle. It goes by way of Luther's birthplace, Palace Mosigkau and back through Luther's birthplace. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The former School of Applied Art and Palace Mosigkau
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 355 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 53
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Scenic road chapters
The former School of Applied Art → Luther's birthplace
The ride follows The former School of Applied Art → Luther's birthplace for 110 km.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 110 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. The former School of Applied Art
Weimar is a small city with a very large place in German culture. Goethe and Schiller lived and worked here, Liszt composed and taught, Nietzsche spent his last years here, and in 1919 the national assembly that created Germany's first democratic constitution met in the theatre, giving the Weimar Republic its name. That same year, the architect Walter Gropius founded a new art school in the city, merging the academy of fine arts with the school of applied arts, and called it the Bauhaus. The school building designed earlier by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde, along with the main building of the art academy, became its home. These buildings, together with the Haus am Horn, are part of the UNESCO serial site of the Bauhaus and its sites, inscribed in 1996.
Read the complete The former School of Applied Art write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The former School of Applied Art is where the day begins. Next is Luther's birthplace.
2. Luther's birthplace
Martin Luther was born in Eisleben on 10 November 1483, and by an odd twist of fate he died here too, in 1546, while on a visit to settle a dispute between the counts of Mansfeld. The house where he was born was rebuilt after a fire in the seventeenth century and became one of the first museums in Germany dedicated to a single person. Together with the house where he died and the sites in Wittenberg where he lived and taught, it forms the UNESCO site of the Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg, listed in 1996. The museum tells the story of Luther's family, his childhood and the beginning of the Reformation, and it has been extended with modern exhibitions.
Read the complete Luther's birthplace write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Luther's birthplace comes up about 110 km into the recorded legs. Next is Palace Mosigkau.
3. Palace Mosigkau
Palace Mosigkau is a small Rococo palace on the edge of Dessau, in Saxony-Anhalt, and its story is that of a princess who wanted a house of her own. It was built in the middle of the eighteenth century for Anna Wilhelmine, a daughter of the Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau, known as the Old Dessauer, a military commander of the Prussian army. She did not marry, and after she died the palace became a noble ladies' foundation, a Damenstift, where unmarried women of good family could live in comfort. Its name sits within the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, a landscape of palaces and parks created in the age of the Enlightenment, which UNESCO has listed.
Read the complete Palace Mosigkau write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 176 km into the recorded legs you reach Palace Mosigkau. Next is back through Luther's birthplace.
4. back through Luther's birthplace
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Luther's birthplace write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Luther's birthplace, late in the day. Next is The former School of Applied Art.
5. The former School of Applied Art
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The former School of Applied Art write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at The former School of Applied Art. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
The former School of Applied Art to Luther's birthplace
The former School of Applied Art → Luther's birthplace is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Luther's birthplace to Palace Mosigkau
Luther's birthplace → Palace Mosigkau is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Palace Mosigkau to back through Luther's birthplace
Palace Mosigkau → back through Luther's birthplace is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Luther's birthplace to The former School of Applied Art
back through Luther's birthplace → The former School of Applied Art is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.