Why this ride
From Reinickendorf it runs 350 km to Reinickendorf; allow about 5 h 13 of riding. It goes by way of Grumsin, Serrahn and back through Grumsin. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Weiße Stadt and Serrahn
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 350 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 13
- 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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Weiße Stadt
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.
Read the complete Weiße Stadt write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Weiße Stadt is where the day begins. Next is Grumsin.
2. Grumsin
North-east of Berlin, the last ice age left behind a landscape of hills, hollows and lakes, shaped by glaciers that advanced and melted back again. In one corner of it, between Angermünde and Joachimsthal, lies the Grumsin forest, a beech wood that has been left largely undisturbed for a long time. It is part of the UNESCO site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, inscribed as one of Germany's contributions in 2011. Old beeches tower above a forest floor scattered with fallen trunks, small ponds and bogs, and in spring the canopy glows a fresh, translucent green.
Read the complete Grumsin write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Grumsin comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Serrahn.
3. Serrahn
Between the lakes of Mecklenburg, north of Berlin, a pocket of old beech forest has been left to grow for the better part of a century, and it is now one of the most unusual places in Germany. Serrahn is a part of the Müritz National Park, a few kilometres from Carpin, and its beeches were once part of a ducal hunting reserve that was protected from logging, so some trees are two hundred years old and more. The Serrahn woods are part of the UNESCO listing of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a serial site that protects the finest remaining beech forests, from Ukraine and Slovakia to Germany, Spain and Italy.
Read the complete Serrahn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Serrahn. Next is back through Grumsin.
4. back through Grumsin
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grumsin write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Grumsin, late in the day. Next is Weiße Stadt.
5. Weiße Stadt
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weiße Stadt write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Weiße Stadt. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Weiße Stadt to Grumsin
Weiße Stadt → Grumsin is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grumsin to Serrahn
Grumsin → Serrahn is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Serrahn to back through Grumsin
Serrahn → back through Grumsin is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Grumsin to Weiße Stadt
back through Grumsin → Weiße Stadt is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.