A day around Potsdam
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A day around Potsdam

A cycling route starting in Wannsee, Land Berlin, Germany.

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A round-trip around Potsdam and a bit beyond. Start/finish at a bike/ebike rental at S-Bahn station Griebnitzsee, so it's well reachable from Berlin. I planned it as a team event day with colleagues who didn't know Potsdam yet and it worked great. In the first half it will take you past many of the great sightseeing spots of Potsdam, World Heritage places everywhere. So it will be a bit stop&go but take your time to enjoy. Later it will become less sightseeing and you will be faster. I added my personal recommendations for beer gardens to stop.

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Duration
38.2 km
Distance
187 m
Ascent
188 m
Descent
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Avg. speed
54 m
Avg. speed
Stephan Uhlmann
Stephan Uhlmann

created this 1 year ago

Route quality

Waytypes & surfaces along the route

Waytypes

  • Path

    10.8 km

    (28 %)

  • Road

    10.4 km

    (27 %)

  • Quiet road

    6.2 km

    (16 %)

Surfaces

Paved

32.7 km

(86 %)

Unpaved

3.4 km

(9 %)

  • Asphalt

    31.1 km

    (82 %)

  • Gravel

    1.9 km

    (5 %)

  • Loose gravel

    1.5 km

    (4 %)

Route highlights

Points of interest along the route

  1. Point of interest after 0.6 km

    Truman-Villa; built 1892; T. stayed here with staff during Potsdam Conference 1945; while here issued order for dropping atomic bombs on Hirsohima and Nagasaki;

  2. Point of interest after 1.1 km

    Churchill-Villa; built 1915 by Mies van der Rohe; C. and Clemens Attlee stayed here with staff during Potsdam Conference 1945

  3. Point of interest after 1.9 km

    Stalin Villa; built 1911; S. stayed here with staff during the Potsdam Conference 1945

  4. Drinking water after 2.9 km

    beergarden - first possible break

  5. Point of interest after 3.1 km

    Jagdschloss Glienicke; built 1693; UNESCO World Heritage Site;

  6. Point of interest after 3.6 km

    Glienicke Palace; redesigned 1825 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel; classicism style; Italian Villa; Carl von Preussen (third son of Friedrich Wilhelm III.); UNCESCO WH

  7. Point of interest after 4 km

    Glienicke Bridge; built 1907; border East Germany and West Berlin; multiple exchanges of spies during cold war; "Bridge of Spies" Spielberg Tom Hanks

  8. Point of interest after 4.2 km

    Babelsberg park and palace; built 1849; summer residence of emperor William I; park by Lenné; palace as Gothic revival by Schinkel, Persius and Strack; UNESCO WH

  9. Point of interest after 5.1 km

    New Garden; redesigned 1816 by Peter Joseph Lenné when still apprentice in Potsdam; English landscape garden; lines of sight; UNESCO WH

  10. Point of interest after 5.9 km

    Cecilienhof; built 1917; emperor Wilhelm II; Tudor style; last palace from Hohenzollern; Potsdam Conference 1945 UK/US/SU; UNESCO WH

  11. Drinking water after 6.1 km

    Meierei - another good beergarden

  12. Point of interest after 8 km

    Alexandrowka; built 1827; plans from Peter Joseph Lenné; for King Frederick William III of Prussia; for 12 singers of the last 62 captured Russian soldiers; gifted with garden and 1 cow; not to be sold only passed on to sons; 2008 the last of direct successor died; UNESCO WH

  13. Point of interest after 9.6 km

    Sanssouci; built 1747; by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff; Rococo style; for king Frederick the Great; summer palace; for relaxation; "sans souci" - without worries; called Prussian Versailles more for its importance for the king than size; Fredericks personal taste added; Knobelsdorff fired over disagreement; wineyard terraces; UNSECO WH

  14. Point of interest after 10.1 km

    Beware: bikes are not allowed beyond this point. Please at least dismount and walk with the bike. If you don't want to offend, you can just lock your bikes, walk around the castle and then come back and cycle again on the road south from here.

  15. Point of interest after 10.3 km

    Orangery Palace; built 1864; by Friedrich August Stüler, Friedrich Ludwig Persius; for king Frederick William IV of Prussia; Italian renaissance style (Ville Medici in Rome, Uffizi in Florence); Raffael Hall (copies); for plants in winter; heating system; UNESCO WH;

  16. Point of interest after 12.4 km

    University of Potsdam

  17. Point of interest after 12.9 km

    New Palace; built 1769; after 7-years-war (1756-1763) due to costs but also as a statement; by 4 architects (Büring, Manger, Gontard, Legeay); for king Frederick the Great; Baroque style; for guests; later main seat for emperor Wilhelm II.

  18. Point of interest after 14.7 km

    Great Fountain; machinery constructed to pump water from the river Havel to the top of Ruinenberg from where it runs down to pump the fountain; never worked like this; F II never saw the fountain working;

  19. Photo after 14.7 km

    You can stop here and walk around a bit to make nice pictures. It's not allowed to cycle within the park, only on the asphalted road ("Ökonomieweg").

  20. Point of interest after 15.2 km

    Church of Peace; built 1854; first by Persius, later Stüler; for King Frederick William IV; Romanesque revival style; modeled after Basilica di San Clemente in Rome;

  21. Point of interest after 15.6 km

    Brandenburg Gate; built 1771; by Gonthard; for Frederick the Great; as triumph gate, symbol of victory in 7-years-war

  22. Point of interest after 15.8 km

    Typical school building from GDR, standardized building form (here: type "Erfurt")

  23. Point of interest after 16.2 km

    "Mosque"; built 1843; by Persius; for King Frederick William IV.; actually for steam engine to pump water for the fountains in Sanssouci;

  24. Point of interest after 24.4 km

    Ferry. Costs money, but it's nice especially for kids. If you don't want the wait and pay, just cycle to the bridge a bit south-west.

  25. Drinking water after 24.5 km

    Nice place to have a coffee.

  26. Point of interest after 25.4 km

    Good ice cream

  27. Point of interest after 26.3 km

    Caputh castle; built from 1662;

  28. Point of interest after 27.4 km

    Einstein summer house

  29. Drinking water after 28.5 km

    Forsthaus Templin, another great beergarden

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