Fürst-Pückler-Weg

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Fürst-Pückler-Weg
Logo Fürst-Pückler-Radweg.png
overall length approx. 500 km
location BrandenburgBrandenburg Brandenburg Saxony
SaxonySaxony 
Starting point Luckau
51 ° 51 ′ 10 ″  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 57 ″  E
Target point Luckau
51 ° 51 ′ 10 ″  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 57 ″  E
Flooring 75% paved
Height difference Total ascent: 2047 m,
total gradient 1994 m
Traffic volume mostly low
Connection to Gurken-Radweg ,
Niederlausitzer Bergbautour ,
Oder-Neisse-Radweg ,
Schwarze-Elster-Radweg ,
Seenlandroute ,
Spreeradweg , Tour Brandenburg
ADFC certification 4 out of 5 stars
Website URL fuerst-pueckler-radweg.de

Fürst-Pückler-Weg is the name for a cycle path in the south of Brandenburg and, on short sections, in the north of Saxony . It was officially opened in 2005. The 500 km long cycle path has been included in the project list of the International Building Exhibition Fürst-Pückler-Land under the motto 500 kilometers through time . In 2006, the cycle path was the first long-distance cycle path in Germany to be certified with a seal of approval according to the criteria of the ADFC .

course

The long-distance cycle path touches the following places in an anti-clockwise direction:

Luckau - Altdöbern - Großräschen - Finsterwalde - Doberlug-Kirchhain - Bad Liebenwerda - Elsterwerda - Plessa - Lauchhammer - Senftenberg - Großkoschen - Spremberg - Forst (Lausitz) - Cottbus - Werben (Spreewald) - Burg (Spreewald) - Raddusch - Calau

Route sign

The Fürst-Pückler-Weg is continuously marked with a symbol, which consists of a blue square on top and a stylized small white Fürst-Pückler pyramid .

Attractions

The long-distance cycle path leads past traditional settlements and villages, castles and parks in Lusatia, which is characterized by lignite mining; affects, among other things, almost all IBA projects in the Brandenburg and Saxon parts:

Branitzer Park - Forster Rosengarten - Glashütte Döbern - Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau - Kromlauer Park - Muskau fold arch - viewpoint open pit Welzow - Lusatian Lakeland with floating houses - Garden City Marga - Artistic Casting Museum Lauchhammer - Biotowers Lauchhammerda - Power Plant Plessa - Post windmill and miniature windmills - Briquette factory Louise - visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60 - IBA terraces - art barn Pritzen - palace and park Fürstlich Drehna - Heinz Sielmann nature park center Wanninchen - Slavic castle Raddusch - Peitz with fishing museum and iron and steel works.

Literature and maps

  • Tour book: Experience the landscape Experience the landscape - cycling on the Fürst-Pückler-Weg with a map (scale: 1: 100,000), International Building Exhibition Fürst-Pückler-Land, ISBN 3-9809844-0-0
  • Cycling and leisure map of South Brandenburg
  • IBA mid-term documentation , ISBN 3-9809844-1-9
  • Fürst-Pückler-Weg . Verlag Esterbauer GmbH, A-Rodingersdorf, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85000-258-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Fürst-Pückler-Weg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), at www.adfc-tourenportal.de, accessed on October 29, 2017
  2. 500 kilometers through time , on iba-see2010.de, accessed on October 29, 2017