Why this ride
From Weimar it runs 355 km to Weimar; allow about 4 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes 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 Art and Palace Mosigkau
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 355 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 54
- 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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
The Former School of Art → Luther's birthplace
This part of the ride is 110 km of The Former School of Art → Luther's birthplace.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 110 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. The Former School of Art
Henry van de Velde was a Belgian painter turned designer, and he is the reason Weimar has a building that looks like the future of 1906. The Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar brought him here to reform the local art and craft school, and in 1904 he designed a new school building for it, a plain, bright structure with big windows, clean lines and a staircase of studied elegance, in the Art Nouveau style that Germans call Jugendstil. When Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919, he merged it with this school and took over its building, so the walls that housed one tradition passed to the next with hardly a change of paint.
Read the complete The Former School of 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 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 Art.
5. The Former School of Art
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Former School of 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 Art. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
The Former School of Art to Luther's birthplace
The Former School of 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 Art
back through Luther's birthplace → The Former School of Art is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.