Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin
Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin , also Berlin – Kottbus – Berlin , was one of the most famous German one-day cycle races . The race led from Berlin to Cottbus and back to Berlin. The race is also known as the spring trip , the Spreewaldfahrt or German Milan – Sanremo .
history
The race was launched in 1909 by the Treptower Racing Driver Association. The first race was held on August 29, 1909. The Treptower train driver Ernst Rottnick won with more than eleven hours of travel time.
The majority of the participants were German drivers. Most of the editions were professional races, except in 1909, 1929, 1931, 1932 and 1933. For a few years there was a race for professionals as well as for amateurs (e.g. 1947 and 1948 on the Berlin – Lübben – Berlin 180 km route ). In 1948 the professional driver's race was also financed by the SED newspaper “ Neues Deutschland” .
From 1949 the race was only held for amateurs . In 1949 and 1950 there were still participants from the West Zone ( FRG ), after that almost only the GDR drivers contested the race with sometimes a few guest teams from Eastern Europe and Egypt (as an "exchange" for the GDR team's participation in the Egypt Round trip ). The only victory of a foreign driver in 1957 went to Pole Wieslaw Podobas.
The race usually took place in March or April. Only in 1909, 1910 (when, in addition to the race in March, there was also a race in September) and 1918, the race took place in autumn. Since 1957 the race has taken place in June, since 1977 in August, the last two events (1988, 1989) at the end of May / beginning of June.
The route from Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin was also often used in the peace trip. In some years nowadays a stage of the Tour de Berlin is driven on the route of this one-day race.
Almost all the stars of GDR cycling won the race. The biggest surprise came in 1965. The drivers of the A-class, who started the 240 km drive with eight minutes, held their own against the 25 “seeded” in the performance class. Fritz Braun from the BSG LOK Ost Leipzig won by forty seconds. The first driver to be seeded was Klaus Ampler in 9th place.
route
The first race in 1909 was over 300 km. When the race was repeated, you drove 265, then 246 and then 250 kilometers.
1921: 271 km> 1922: 259.5 km> 1924: 249.8 km> 1925: 249.8 km
1928: 260 km. Start in Treptow (in front of the “Tivoli” restaurant, Neue Krugallee), Niederschöneweide , Adlershof , Grünau , Zeuthen , Wendisch Buchholz , Leibsch , Neu Lübbenau , Lübben , Lübbenau , Vetschau , Ströbitz (turning point control), Vetschau, Calau , Luckau , Golßen , Baruth , Zossen , Groß Machnow , Dahlewitz , goal on the slopes (stadium train) at Wannsee.
1947: Start at the " New Germany " building, Schönhauser Allee 176, further Senefelderplatz , Lothringer Strasse, Prenzlauer Allee , Prenzlauer Berg , Friedenstrasse , Straussberger Strasse, Andreasstrasse, Schillingsbrücke, Köpenicker Strasse , Köpenicker Landstrasse, Niederschöneweide, Adlershof, Grünau, Zeuthen, Wildau , Königs Wusterhausen , Wendisch Buchholz, Neu Lübbenau, Lübben, Lübbenau, Vetschau, Ströbitz, Kottbus (market place, turning point with a 30-minute mandatory break) - Lübbenau, Lübben, Golßen, Baruth, Zossen, Mittenwalde , Königs Wusterhausen, Wildau, Zeuthen, Grünau, Adlershof, Niederschöneweide, Köpenicker Landstrasse, etc., Schönhauser Allee.
1948: 260 km
1949: 260 km. The start took place this year in the Frankfurter Allee at the corner of Bersarinstrasse, and from here the journey led via Grünau, Wildau, Königs Wusterhausen, Wendisch Buchholz, Lübben, Vetschau to Cottbus and back on the same route.
1952: 280 km
1956: For the first time as a stage trip. The first stage led from Berlin to Frankfurt / Oder, the second was held as a circuit race in Stalinstadt , and the third stage then led back from Stalinstadt via Cottbus to Berlin.
1957: 275 km
1958: Only 174 km (Berlin - Lübbenau - Berlin). The 1958 race was shortened to 174 kilometers. The turning point was not Ströbitz or Cottbuser Markt, but Lübbenau . Instead, the 20 or 30-minute compulsory break at the turning point that had been customary up to that point was omitted.
1959: 324 km (2 stages: Berlin – Cottbus, Cottbus – Berlin)
1960: Berlin - Lübben - Berlin
1965: 240 km> 1966: 230 km
1967: 264 km (start & finish at the Filmtheater am Friedrichshain )
1979: 279 km
1980: 243 km
1981, 1982: 251 km
1983: 260 km
1985: 235 km
1986: 257 km
1987, 1988, 1989: 250 km
Winners list
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Illustrated cycling. Edition April 10, 1953, page 8, start and finish in Treptow ... , Sportverlag GmbH
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 40/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 16 .
- ^ Website of the Tour de Berlin
- ↑ New Germany . August 2, 1965 (Volume 20, Issue 210), page 7
- ↑ Illustrated cycling express. 1st year, no. 1, April 22, 1947, Berlin – Kottbus – Berlin , page 1, Express-Verlag GmbH
- ↑ Illustrated cycling sport
- ↑ Illustrated cycling express
- ↑ New Germany. March 23, 1956 (Volume 11, Issue 71), page 8
- ↑ Cycling week. Volume 6 / No. 21, May 28, 1958, Jochen Glaser stamped forward alone , page 8
Web links
- Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Berlin – Kottbus – Berlin on memoire-du-cyclisme.ne