Rad-Rundreise in der WelterbeRegion | 1st stage: Dessau - Oranienbaum

Short description

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

Description

The World Heritage Region of Anhalt-Dessau-Wittenberg awaits you with a great variety of things to experience. Besides world-famous park landscapes, the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe and monuments of industrial culture invite you to visit. Each day of the bike tour will surprise you.

The first days are characterized 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 made 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

- Entrance to Ferropolis

- 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 for free and use over 80 additional services in art, culture, nature, and leisure activities.

 

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

 

Note:

Booking exclusively through Elbe Rad Touristik GmbH. The Gartenträume e. V. is neither the organizer nor the broker 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

Dessau - Oranienbaum (approx. 19 km)

Todays stage takes you along part of the Garden Realm Tour Fürst-Franz to Wörlitz. You first cycle to Schloss Georgium with its artistically designed landscape garden. Continuing through the Georgengarten, you reach Schloss and Park Luisium. You then head to Vockerode with its approximately 25 ha forest park and small Solitude. Leaving the Fürst-Franz Way, you cycle on the EuroVelo R1 towards Oranienbaum. Visit the Baroque Oranienbaum Palace. The palace construction also included the creation of a palace garden following Dutch models. The park impresses with a variety of citrus plants, and the English-Chinese garden is considered the only surviving one of its kind in Germany today. Architectural highlights include the elaborately restored Chinese House and the five-story Pagoda.

 

Some World Heritage Card benefits:

Bauhaus Dessau/Meisterhäuser: Free entry to a Bauhaus architecture (Bauhaus building or Meisterhäuser or Bauhaus Museum)

Schloss Georgium: Free entry to the special exhibition of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau

Schloss and Park Luisium: Free castle tour

Schloss and Park Oranienbaum: Free castle tour

Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe: Free entry to the beaver enclosure

Further information

more Garden Dreams tours in Saxony-Anhalt

Gartenträume in den Elbauen (7 days)

Gartenträume im Harzvorland (7 days)

Parking information

Parking options in Dessau:

Paid parking at the hotel upon request

Safety instructions

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

 

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 the Rococo Schloss Mosigkau as the first stop on your Garden Dreams tour today. It is located about 10 km outside the city and can be reached via the Fürst-Franz Path. The palace and garden complex is one of the last largely preserved Rococo ensembles in Central Germany.

 

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

You leave the Bauhaus city of Dessau-Roßlau in a northern direction via the Mulde cycle path. At the Jagdbrücke, you join the Elbe Cycle Path/Fürst-Franz Path, which you follow towards Vockerode. After about 8 km, you reach Vockerode. You leave the Elbe Cycle Path and cycle on the EuroVelo R1 via the beaver enclosures at Auenhaus to Oranienbaum.

 

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

At the Catholic Christ King Church, you leave the R1 and cycle north to Wörlitz. On the way back to Oranienbaum, you follow the same route (alternatively, you can also take the Dessau-Wörlitz Railway back).

 

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

You leave Oranienbaum on the R1 and cycle to Gremminer See. On a peninsula lies the city made of iron - Ferropolis. When leaving the peninsula, you come across the Coal/Steam/Light cycle path, which takes you past Muldestausee to the Great Goitzscher See. Passing through the book village of Mühlbeck-Friedersdorf, you reach the gauge tower and the pier.

 

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

Ride back on the Bernstein Promenade (approx. 2.2 km) until you turn left onto Straße der Opfer des Faschismus. Here you meet the Mulde Cycle Path, which takes you back to Dessau.

 

Day 6: Individual journey home or extension

Today marks the end of your bike tour through the Garden Dreams in the World Heritage Region.

Equipment

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

Average distance per day: 21 - 43 km