Cycling stops in Berlin

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Berlin is flat, and riders here treat that as a fact rather than a complaint. The riding runs west out of the city into the Grunewald and along the Havel, where the lakes and the pine forest start almost inside the ring, then on into Brandenburg on long straight lanes between villages.

It is a city with serious coffee at both ends of a ride, which shapes the day more than any hill does.

Climbs, views & nature

Bahnbetriebswerk Berlin-SchöneweideProtected areaBahnbetriebswerk Berlin-Schöneweide is a former railway depot built in 1906 with a roundhouse, water tower and turntable for maintaining locomotives.Friedhof HeerstraßeProtected areaFriedhof Heerstraße was laid out between 1921 and 1924 around the Sausuhlensee by landscape architect Erwin Barth, with a chapel designed by Erich Blunck.GrunewaldturmObservation towerGrunewaldturm is a 56-metre red-brick tower designed by Franz Schwechten and built in 1897-98 for the centenary of Kaiser Wilhelm I, opening in 1899 as the K…LiebesinselNature reserveLiebesinsel is a small island in the Spree at Rummelsburg Bay, formed as ice-age valley sand ground.MurellenbergPeak · 62.0 mMurellenberg is a 62-metre rise carved by the last ice age, part of the wooded hills west of Berlin's Olympic Stadium.Norddeutsche Eiswerke A. G. & EisfabrikProtected areaThe Eisfabrik on Köpenicker Straße is one of Germany's oldest surviving ice factories, built for Carl Bolle's Norddeutsche Eiswerke AG, founded in 1872, whic…Olympia-GlockenturmObservation towerOlympia-Glockenturm is a 77-metre observation tower built in 1934 by Werner March above the Olympic Stadium, part of the 1936 Reichssportfeld complex.Siedlung ElsengrundProtected areaSiedlung Elsengrund is a garden-city housing estate built between 1918 and 1925 in Berlin's Köpenick district, part of the Märchenviertel.TeufelsbergViewpointTeufelsberg is a rubble hill built from Berlin's WWII debris, piled over an unfinished Nazi military college and rising to 120 metres, one of the city's high…WietkiekenbergPeak · 124.7 mWietkiekenberg, Low German for "see far," is the highest point of the Zauche plateau at 124.7 meters, in the Ferch district of Schwielowsee.

History & landmarks

Alliierten-MuseumMuseum · BerlinThe Allied Museum documents the Western Allies' presence in Berlin from 1945 to 1994, opened in 1998 in a former US Army cinema on Clayallee.Archenhold-SternwarteMuseum · BerlinArchenhold-Sternwarte, Germany's oldest and largest public observatory, grew out of a giant refracting telescope built for the 1896 Berlin Trade Fair in Trep…Bahnhof Potsdam-PirschheideBuildingRailway station with a restored upper level and historical significance on the Berlin outer ring.Berliner U-Bahn-MuseumMuseum · BerlinThe Berliner U-Bahn-Museum occupies the old signal box at Olympia-Stadion station, an electromechanical lever interlocking that from 1931 to 1983 was the lar…Brücke-MuseumMuseum · BerlinThe Brücke-Museum holds the world's largest collection of works by Die Brücke, the German Expressionist group founded in 1905, including paintings by Karl Sc…Burgruine ZolchowRuinsBurgruine Zolchow is the ruin of a late-medieval lowland castle on the shore of the Großer Plessower See, granted to the Brandenburg Cathedral chapter in 1290.ChristophoruskircheChurch · BerlinChristophoruskirche stands on Bölschestraße in Friedrichshagen, built in 1901-1903 to designs by Jürgen Kröger as a replacement for the district's older vill…ChristuskircheChurch · BerlinChristuskirche on Firlstraße in Oberschöneweide was built in 1907-1908 to designs by architect Robert Leibnitz and consecrated by Empress Auguste Viktoria th…CorbusierhausAttraction · BerlinCorbusierhaus is a 1958 apartment block Le Corbusier designed as a Unité d'Habitation for the Interbau exhibition, built to help resolve West Berlin's postwa…Dorfkirche StralauChurch · BerlinDorfkirche Stralau is the oldest church in Friedrichshain, built between 1459 and 1464 for a parish of eleven fishing families and consecrated that August.EierhäuschenHistoric site · BerlinEierhäuschen is a brick excursion restaurant built in 1890 on the Spree at the edge of Plänterwald, its tower and pyramid roof designed by Karl Frobenius.Funkturm BerlinAttraction · BerlinFunkturm Berlin is a steel lattice radio tower designed by Heinrich Straumer and inaugurated in 1926 for the Great German Radio Exhibition on the Messe Berli…Fuß SendemastRuinsFuß Sendemast marks the site of Sender Köpenick, a shortwave and mediumwave transmitter that went on air on 6 July 1952 in the forest between Köpenick and Ma…Heilig-Geist-KirchePlace of worship · Werder (Havel)The Heilig-Geist-Kirche stands on Werder's island, the third church built on this spot since Cistercian monks from Lehnin Abbey raised the first one around 1…Jagdschloss GrunewaldCastle · BerlinJagdschloss Grunewald is the oldest surviving palace in Berlin, its foundation stone laid in 1542 by Elector Joachim II on the shore of the Grunewaldsee.KreuzkircheChurch · BerlinThe Kreuzkirche on Hohenzollerndamm was built between 1927 and 1929 to designs by architects Ernst Paulus and Günther Paulus, in the brick expressionist style.Museum Berlin-KarlshorstMuseumMuseum Berlin-Karlshorst occupies the former officers' dining hall where the German armed forces signed their unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945, ending W…Parkbühne WuhlheideAttraction · BerlinParkbühne Wuhlheide is an open-air amphitheatre in Volkspark Wuhlheide, built on rubble mounds for the 1951 World Festival of Youth and Students, with terrac…Schloss CaputhCastle · SchwielowseeSchloss Caputh is the only surviving palace built for the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm, with its grandest years under his son Friedrich III.Schloss FriedrichsfeldeCastleSchloss Friedrichsfelde dates to 1685, built as Schloss Rosenfelde for naval director Benjamin Raule before passing to Prussian King Friedrich I.Schloss KöpenickCastleSchloss Köpenick sits on a man-made island on the Dahme, built between 1677 and 1690 for the Hohenzollern prince-elector Friedrich, later Prussia's first king.Schloss MarquardtCastle · PotsdamPalace used for weddings, film shoots, and gastronomy, with a history as a noble residence.Schloss PetzowManor · Werder (Havel)Schloss Petzow was designed around 1825 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, its Gothic Revival facade framed by round corner towers and Tudor-style pointed arches.St. George’s ChurchChurch · BerlinSt.St. Marien am BehnitzChurch · BerlinSt.St. Nikolai-KircheHistoric church · BerlinSt.St. PetrusChurch · BerlinSt.Tierpark BerlinZoo · BerlinThe Tierpark Berlin is one of two zoos located in Berlin, Germany.TrudelturmTechnical monumentTrudelturm is an egg-shaped, roughly 20-metre wind tunnel built between 1934 and 1936 by the German Aviation Research Institute at the former Johannisthal ai…Zitadelle SpandauCastle · BerlinSpandau Citadel is a Renaissance fortress built between 1559 and 1594 by Italian architects Francesco Chiaramella de Gandino and Rochus zu Lynar, its four ba…
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Archenhold-Sternwarte

Berlin · Berlin

Archenhold-Sternwarte, Germany's oldest and largest public observatory, grew out of a giant refracting telescope built for the 1896 Berlin Trade Fair in Treptower Park. Left in place after the exhibition, the 21-metre telescope, nicknamed the sky cannon, remains the longest movable refracting telescope in the world. In 1915, Albert Einstein gave his first public lecture on general relativity in its lecture hall.

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The Archenhold Observatory (German: Archenhold-Sternwarte) was named in honour of Friedrich Simon Archenhold, is an observatory in Berlin-Treptow. It houses the Großer Refraktor (Great Refractor), which is the longest pointable telescope in the world. It is also called Die Himmelskanone (Celestial Cannon).

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Why stop at Archenhold-Sternwarte on a bike ride?
Archenhold-Sternwarte, Germany's oldest and largest public observatory, grew out of a giant refracting telescope built for the 1896 Berlin Trade Fair in Treptower Park. Left in place after the exhibition, the 21-metre telescope, nicknamed the sky cannon, remains the longest movable refracting telescope in the world. In 1915, Albert Einstein gave his first public lecture on general relativity in its lecture hall.
Where is Archenhold-Sternwarte?
Archenhold-Sternwarte is in Berlin, Berlin (Germany).

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