The House Am Horn and Palace Mosigkau

Scenic road chapters

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. The House Am Horn

   Weimar has a way of making people feel they have walked into a library. Goethe and Schiller lived and worked here, Bach and Liszt played here, and in 1919 the German National Assembly met in the town to write the constitution of the Weimar Republic. That same year Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, merging the old art school and the school of applied arts into something new. The Haus Am Horn, built in 1923 for the school's first big exhibition, is the only Bauhaus building that was actually erected in Weimar itself.

   Read the complete The House Am Horn write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   The House Am Horn is where the day begins. Next is Luther's birthplace.

2. 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.

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   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 95 km into the recorded legs. Next is Palace Mosigkau.

3. 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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Palace Mosigkau. Next is back through Luther's birthplace.

4. 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 House Am Horn.

5. 5. The House Am Horn

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete The House Am Horn write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Back at The House Am Horn. That is the ride.