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Description

The World Heritage Region of Anhalt-Dessau-Wittenberg awaits you with a great variety of experiences. In addition to world-famous parklands, attractions such as the UNESCO Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve and monuments of industrial culture invite you for a visit. Each day of the cycling 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 journey 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 its validity. You can experience 13 UNESCO World Heritage sites and over 80 additional 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 the intermediary of this offer.

Booking:

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

Tel.: 0391 /7330 334

Fax: 0391 / 7330 335

info@elbe-rad-touristik.de | www.elbe-rad-touristik.de

Prices:

Price per person in a double room: €463.00

Single room surcharge: €146.00

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

Directions

Goitzsche/Bitterfeld – Jessnitz – Dessau-Roßlau (approx. 32 km)

Todays section is characterized by elongated, flat routes that meander through a magnificent and pristine Mulde valley. A first stop is worth at the manor house in Muldenstein. The manor house is part of a property consisting of a church (12th century) and a Franciscan monastery (15th century). Soon after, you reach the Altjeßnitz estate park with the largest and oldest baroque maze covering an area of 2,600 m². The over two-meter-high hornbeam hedges and narrow paths promise an impressive maze. When the platform in the middle is reached, you will be rewarded with an overview of the entire garden. Along the Mulde, you now return to the starting point of your 5-day circular tour – Dessau-Roßlau. In the afternoon, you still have the opportunity to visit the Bauhaus building or the Masters Houses in Dessau (daily from 10 am to 5 pm, admission included).

Some World Heritage Card services:

Bitterfeld Water Center: Free entry to the Water Center

Dessau-Roßlau: Free city tour of Dessau

Altjeßnitz Maze: Free visit to the maze

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

More Information

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Safety Information

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 for several hours).

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival in Dessau

Today you independently travel to the Bauhaus city of Dessau-Roßlau. If time allows, you can visit the Rococo-style Mosigkau Palace 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 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)

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

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

At the Catholic Christ the 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 Lake Gremmin. On a peninsula lies the city of iron – Ferropolis. When leaving the peninsula, you come across the Kohle/Dampf/Licht cycle path, which takes you past Lake Muldestau to Lake Goitzscher. Passing the book village Mühlbeck Friedersdorf, you reach the gauge tower and the pier.

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

Return on the Bernstein promenade (approx. 2.2 km) until you turn left onto the Opfer des Faschismus street. Here you meet the Mulderadweg, which takes 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 &: cycling groups with normal fitness. Slightly longer bike tours that require good basic fitness. These more dynamic cycling tours take you through flat and partially hilly terrain with short but easy ascents.

Average distance per day: 21 – 44 km