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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An 85 km round trip from Dessau - roughly 1 h 34 in the saddle. It goes by way of Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, The Castle Church and back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 20 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Walter Gropius did not only design a school, he designed the houses for its teachers, and the Masters' Houses in Dessau are among the most elegant homes of the modern movement. Built in 1925 and 1926 on a quiet street at the edge of a pine wood, they form a row of white, flat-roofed, cubic buildings, each one a variation on the same set of simple geometric forms: three semi-detached pairs for the masters and a larger villa for Gropius himself. Their clean lines, large windows and balanced proportions were a statement of what modern living could look like.
Read the complete The Masters’ Houses write-up.
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The Masters’ Houses is where the day begins. Next is Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz.
In the late eighteenth century, a small German principality decided to remake its entire landscape as a work of art. Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau, inspired by travels in England and by the ideas of the Enlightenment, created a vast network of parks, gardens, palaces and estates along the Elbe and Mulde rivers, combining beauty, education and agriculture. The result, the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, is one of the earliest and largest landscape gardens in continental Europe, and it was listed by UNESCO in 2000.
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Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Castle Church.
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.
Read the complete The Castle Church write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach The Castle Church. Next is back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, late in the day. Next is The Masters’ Houses.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Masters’ Houses write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The Masters’ Houses. That is the ride.
The Masters’ Houses → Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz → The Castle Church is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Castle Church → back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz → The Masters’ Houses is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.