Rad-Rundreise in der WelterbeRegion | 2nd stage: Oranienbaum - Wörlitz

Short description

6-day tour with many stops of the Garden Dreams in Saxony-Anhalt

Description

The World Heritage Region of Anhalt-Dessau-Wittenberg awaits you with a great variety of experiences. In addition to world-famous parklands, the UNESCO Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve and monuments of industrial culture invite you to visit. Each day of the cycling tour will surprise you.

The first days are dominated by castles and magnificent parks in the UNESCO Garden Realm Dessau-Wörlitz, created by a visionary of his time, Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau. The tour continues through Ferropolis - the city of iron -, the Goitzsche Lake region, and the Altjeßnitz Estate Park, with the largest and oldest baroque maze in Germany, back to Dessau.

 

Services:

- 5 nights in good mid-range hotels with breakfast

- Luggage transfer

- World Heritage Card for 3 days

- Admission to Ferropolis

- one tour package per room

- 7-day service hotline

 

Notes: The World Heritage Card can be used on three freely selectable days within the validity period. You can experience 13 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and over 80 other services in art, culture, nature, and leisure free of charge.

 

Optional additional services: Rental bike (touring bike / e-bike)

 

Note:

Booking exclusively through Elbe Rad Touristik GmbH. The Garden Dreams e. V. is neither the organizer nor mediator of this offer.

 

Booking:

Elbe Rad Touristik GmbH | Gerhart-Hauptmann-Str. 2 | 39108 Magdeburg

Phone: 0391 / 7330 334

Fax: 0391 / 7330 335

[email protected] | www.elbe-rad-touristik.de

 

Prices:

Price per person in a double room: 463.00 €

Single room supplement: 146.00 €

5% discount for group bookings (7-12 participants)

Directions

Oranienbaum – Wörlitz and back (approx. 8 km each way)

Today is dedicated to the Wörlitz Parklands. The five garden parts (Castle Garden, Schochs Garden, Weidenheger, Neumarks Garden, and New Areas) are mostly separated by lakes and canals, to be connected again via ferries, bridges, and paths. The constantly changing garden views can be experienced on foot or by water in a gondola. Join a public park tour to get an initial overview. We recommend visiting the castle, the rock island Stein, the Venus Temple with an underground section, and the Gothic House. After visiting the Wörlitz Park, return to Oranienbaum by bike or by train (included).

Note: Biking is not allowed in the park.

 

Some World Heritage Card Services:

Wörlitz Palace and Landscape Park: Free palace tour EG

Gothic House: Free tour

Stein Island and Villa Hamilton: Free individual tour

Gondola rides in Wörlitz Park: Free gondola ride

Ferries in Wörlitz Park: Free ferry crossing

Wörlitz: Free public park tour Wörlitz

Dessau-Wörlitz Railway: Two free rides per day

Additional Information

More information and links

more Garden Dreams tours in Saxony-Anhalt

Garden Dreams in the Elbauen (7 days)

Garden Dreams in the Harz Foreland (7 days)

Safety Information

This trip is not suitable for people with limited mobility. As a traveler, you are solely responsible for ensuring that you are physically capable of meeting the requirements of an active trip (e.g., physical activity over several hours).

 

Travel Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival in Dessau

Today you will travel to the Bauhaus city of Dessau-Roßlau on your own. If time allows, you can visit Mosigkau Rococo Palace as the first stop on your Garden Dreams tour today. It is located approximately 10 km outside the city and can be reached via the Fürst-Franz Weg. The palace and garden complex is one of the last largely preserved Rococo ensembles in Central Germany.

 

Day 2: Dessau - Oranienbaum (approx. 21 km)

Leave the Bauhaus city of Dessau - Rosslau in a northerly direction via the Mulderadweg. At Jagdbrücke, you will join the Elbe Cycle Path/Fürst-Franz Weg, which you will follow towards Vockerode. After about 8 km, you will reach Vockerode. Leave the Elbe Cycle Path and cycle on the Europa Cycle Route R1 via the Bieberfreianlagen at Auenhaus to Oranienbaum.

 

Day 3: Oranienbaum - Wörlitz and back (approx. 8 km each way)

From the Catholic Christ the King Church, head north to Wörlitz. Return to Oranienbaum by the same route (alternatively, you can also take the Dessau-Wörlitz Railway back).

 

Day 4: Oranienbaum - Ferropolis - Goitzsche/Bitterfeld (approx. 43 km)

Leave Oranienbaum on the R1 and cycle to Gremminer See. The city of iron, Ferropolis, is located on a peninsula. When leaving the peninsula, you will come across the Coal/Steam/Light cycle path, which will take you past Muldestausee to the Great Goitzscher See. Passing through Buchdorf Mühlbeck Friedersdorf, you will reach the Pegelturm and the Seebrücke.

 

Day 5: Goitzsche/Bitterfeld - Jessnitz - Dessau (approx. 32 km)

Ride back on the Bernsteinpromenade (approx. 2.2 km) until you turn left onto Straße der Opfer des Faschismus. Here you will meet the Mulderadweg, which will take you back to Dessau.

 

Day 6: Individual journey home or extension

Today your cycling tour through the Garden Dreams in the World Heritage Region ends.

Equipment

Ideal for leisure cyclists, occasional riders &: bike groups with normal fitness. Slightly longer bike tours requiring a good basic fitness level. During these more dynamic bike tours, you will be traveling in flat and partially hilly terrain with short but easy climbs.

Average distance per day: 21 - 55 km