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Germany: Cycling in West Berlin

In the morning I finished reading the De viaje por Europa del Este (English: Journey through Eastern Europe) by Gabriel García Márquez, a landmark work discerning the true political, economic, and human landscape of the countries that made up the USSR four decades after the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution. After the breakfast, Nada and me decided to spend the day on bikes, riding in the West part of Berlin, mostly near the part, where the Berlin Wall separated the City and the DDR, near Fort Hahneberg. In the end we relaxed near the Havel river.

 

We rented 2 Deezer nextbikes near our apartment

 

Siemensstadt with Siemens -Tower and The Wings by Daniel Libeskind

Crossing the bridge over Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal

Just took off from Berlin Tegel Airport

The main international airport of Berlin, TXL, formerly served West Berlin.

Our bikes stopped by for a geocache.

Back over the same channel, built between 1848 and 1859, formerly known as the Hohenzollern Canal or Hohenzollernkanal.

The 12.2-kilometre long canal links the River Havel north of Spandau to the River Spree near the Hauptbahnhof in Berlin. Because it joins the River Havel upstream of the river lock at Spandau, it provides a more direct route from the River Spree to the Oder–Havel Canal.

After the Berlin Wall was built, the canal’s eastern bank became an inaccessible military zone.

 

Ampelmännchen - little traffic light men safely took us to many new places, also abandoned powder factory with the water tower.

Still rivers, in this case Havel river, attract many people

Rathaus Spandau - the town hall that was built between 1910 and 1913.

The Havel is a right tributary of the Elbe and 325 kilometres long. However, the direct distance from its source to its mouth is only 94 kilometres.

 

Riding through Spandau, the smallest borough by population in Berlin.

Street lamps on the crossroad

 

The village church in Alt-Staaken was probably built from 1436 to 1438, and a tower and a charnel house were added in 1712. Although the church was in the border area from 1952 to 1990, the congregation in West-Staaken (DDR) was able to continue using it.

 

Conquered Hahneberg, 88 m

Downhill with a rental without susspension

Short, but sweet

 

Met some friends on the way

Through some fields

 

Plenty of plane areas

Havel river for a short chill out

Refreshing water

 

Over Stößenseebrücke bridge past Romanian Orthodox Church back to the city centre

 

Messe Berlin and ICC

Riding in Berlin - Garmin Connect

GeoCaches found:
- Abflug TXL, GC2RVCC
- Puschbär´s - SSSS - III - Teil 1, Mystery, GC4D63J
- Shibumi IX, GC17G70
- Die "kalte" Havel-Insel, GCM4YQ
- Puschbär´s - SSSS - III - Teil 4, Mystery, GC4WCW3
- #20 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau -Hahneberg (Finale), Mystery, GC6Y99F
- #19 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6Y9A7
- #18 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6V6GC
- #17 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6P6VN
- #16 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6NCJZ
- #15 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6NCD3
- #14 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6N7KN
- #13 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6MY7V
- #11 Berliner Mauerweg: Lieblingsblick auf Spandau, GC5Z0B0
- #10 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6F9WF
- #09 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, GC58MRN
- #08 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6F7G3
- #07 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6F7FN
- #06 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6B6T8
- #05 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6B6PV
- #03 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6AQ9T
- #02 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC6ADVB
- #01 Berliner Mauerweg: Spandau - Fort Hahneberg, Mystery, GC69ZVR