The Historic Town Centers Cycle Route No. 1 offers you the time and opportunity to explore the influence of the Hohenzollern dynasty in Brandenburg. It leads you, among other places, to Neuruppin, whose early Neoclassical cityscape was shaped by Frederick William II. The tour also takes you to Rheinsberg Palace, the court of the muses of Crown Prince Frederick and his brother Henry, as well as into the Oderbruch region, which Frederick the Great once had drained. The thermal brine spa town of Templin is also on your route, as is the spa town of Bad Freienwalde, the "health spring" of Elector Frederick William I.
The route begins in Hennigsdorf near Berlin and runs through the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land Nature Park, the Zehdenick clay pit landscape, the Uckermark Lakes Nature Park, and the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve to Altlandsberg in the Oder-Spree lake district. Stage maps and tourist city maps will help you find your way.
Length: 342 km
Start: Hennigsdorf / Goal: Neuenhagen near Berlin
Logo: AG-HIS logo with number 1 (red route)
Arrival: From Berlin Friedrichstraße take the S-Bahn line S25 to Hennigsdorf
Check out: From Neuenhagen near Berlin take the S-Bahn line S5 to Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station).
Course: Hennigsdorf, Kremmen, Neuruppin, Rheinsberg, Lindow, Gransee, Zehdenick, Templin, Angermünde, Bad Freienwalde (Oder), Wriezen, Strausberg, Altlandsberg, Berlin
Possible combinations
- Tour Brandenburg
- Berlin-Usedom Cycle Route
- Oder-Neisse cycle path
- Long-distance cycle route Berlin-Copenhagen
- Uckermark Cycle Route
- Havel bike path
- Ruppin Lakes Culture Cycle Route
Road condition / route development: No information
Maps / Literature:
- Guidebook for the cycling route Historic Town Centers 1 “From Neuruppin to the Oderland - Crown Princes, Electors and Spas”, published by terra press, edition: 1 (July 2019), ISBN 978-3-942917-40-7
- "Oder-Spree Lake District Northern Part (Märkisch-Oderland District): Cycling and Leisure Map", scale 1:75.000 / 1:175.000, folded map, publisher: Pietruska; edition: 3 (November 22, 2011), ISBN-10: 3934895824
- "ADFC Regional Map Uckermark with 16 suggested tours for short getaways", 1:75.000, Bielefelder Verlag, Edition: 4, ISBN-13: 978-3969901687
- "Ruppiner Land Cycle Map", 1:75.000, Esterbauer Verlag, 1st edition (April 15, 2011), ISBN-10: 3850003043
