CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 249 km round trip from Reinickendorf - roughly 4 h 23 in the saddle. It goes by way of The ADGB Trade Union School, Gartenstadt Flakenberg, Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin and back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg. The line favours views over speed.
44 km on The ADGB Trade Union School → Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
The first thing you notice in the Weiße Stadt is how little it shouts. This is a housing estate in Reinickendorf, in the north of Berlin, built between 1929 and 1931 to a design by Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, with Bruno Ahrends and Wilhelm Büning, and its smooth white walls, strip windows and flat roofs were a quiet manifesto for a new way of living. It is called the White City for obvious reasons, and in the late Weimar years it was meant to show that ordinary people could have light, air and a balcony.
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Weiße Stadt is where the day begins. 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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The ADGB Trade Union School comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
On the southeastern edge of Berlin, near the Dahme river, a few streets of small houses are painted in colours so bold that locals nicknamed the place the paint-box estate. This is the Gartenstadt Falkenberg, or Falkenberg Garden City, designed by the architect Bruno Taut and built in the years just before the First World War. Taut believed that colour could improve ordinary lives, and so he gave the terraced houses facades of deep blue, red, ochre and green, with gardens, tree-lined lanes and a central square. It was an early experiment in affordable housing for working families, and UNESCO included it in 2008 among the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Gartenstadt Flakenberg. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg.
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back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through The ADGB Trade Union School.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The ADGB Trade Union School write-up.
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back through The ADGB Trade Union School comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. Next is Weiße Stadt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weiße Stadt write-up.
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Weiße Stadt closes the day.
Weiße Stadt → The ADGB Trade Union School is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The ADGB Trade Union School → Gartenstadt Flakenberg is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gartenstadt Flakenberg → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gartenstadt Flakenberg → back through The ADGB Trade Union School is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The ADGB Trade Union School → Weiße Stadt is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.