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Iron Curtain Trail

Jon Smart
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Iron Curtain Trail

planned a gravel ride

February 17, 2023

Iron Curtain Trail

Hard

105:57

1,213km

11.5km/h

14,290m

13,740m

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Overview

Hard gravel ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The route includes a crossing by ferry.

Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 36.9 km for 75 m

After 59.9 km for 349 m

After 75.8 km for 61 m

After 126 km for 2.93 km

After 139 km for 1.35 km

After 1,113 km for 242 m

Most people would complete this in 16-35 days

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Waypoints

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Travemünde Waterfront and Maritim High-Rise

Highlight (Segment) • Settlement

A broad, white sandy beach, its more than 200 years of history as a seaside resort and Germany's largest Baltic Sea port characterize the maritime image of the place at …

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2.12 km

Priwall–Travemünde Ferry

Highlight • Rest Area

The ferry from Travemünde to Priwall runs every 15 minutes during the day and costs 1.3 euros for you plus 90 cents for the bike (do not forget your change!). …

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2

4.50 km

Memorial Stone 'Never Divided Again' and Border Information at Priwall

Highlight • Monument

The Priwall has a rather eventful history behind it. On it was once an important German airport, in World War II here was a submarine port and accordingly suffered the …

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3

33.8 km

Siegfried Appotin Memorial

Highlight • Historical Site

This is the former lane for the East German border troops just beyond the border fence.

Here, in 1950, a fleeing border guard shot and killed his comrade (see picture with the memorial stone).

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4

55.8 km

Grenzhus Schlagsdorf – Museum of the Inner German Border

Highlight • Historical Site

Very nice little exhibition that is really worth a visit. As a child of the Berlin Wall, you may have grown up with it, but here you can see once again how perfidious the inner-German border was. More information: herzogtum-lauenburg.de/poi/grenzhus

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5

84.3 km

Swimming spot at Priestersee

Highlight • Lake

Like several other smaller lakes, the Priestersee belongs to the Schaalsee, which is one of the deepest German lakes. During the division of Germany, large parts of the area lay …

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86.5 km

Restaurant Maräne

Highlight • Restaurant

About 65 kilometers are made if you abradelst the former German-German border from Travemünde. Time for a break! Here at the edge of the biosphere reserve Schaalsee could not be …

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7

114 km

Open-Air Border Museum Tor 21 – Leisterförde

Highlight • Historical Site

Interesting and informative little open-air museum located right on the street. You pass it straight away and should take a little time to refresh the faded memories.

Many years have …

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8

121 km

Schwanheide Border Station

Highlight • Historical Site

The station Schwanheide was during the German division a border station in the course of the railway line Berlin-Hamburg on the side of the German Democratic Republic in Mecklenburg town …

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138 km

Kolonnenweg in the Elbe River Landscape Biosphere Reserve

Highlight • Trail

Something historical. No problem with the MTB.

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10

165 km

Josefa Tower Viewpoint Over the Sudeniederung near Dellien

Highlight • Viewpoint

Ausguck / view over the south-facing valley near Dellien from the "Josefa Turm"
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Kiekut oewer de Sudemaasch bi't Dörp Dellien vun'n "Josefa tower" ut ...
- Auerossen / Heckrinner, Wildpierd / Koniks, Adebor, Milan, White-tailed Eagle ....

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11

261 km

Concrete slab paths in Arendsee Conservation Area

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

The right air pressure is everything :-)

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12

565 km

13

602 km

GDR Patrol Road

Highlight • Trail

Wide tires make sense here with the fat holes in the plates.

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14

656 km

Three-States Stone Hesse–Thuringia–Lower Saxony

Highlight • Monument

Landmark.
from 1945 - 1949 interface between three victorious powers.
Since 1990 landmark between Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony.

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1,181 km

Three Free States Stone

Highlight • Monument

Nice path, also for Nordic walking.

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1,213 km

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

880 km

156 km

65.7 km

58.2 km

39.8 km

10.0 km

2.69 km

357 m

254 m

Surfaces

626 km

207 km

172 km

153 km

36.5 km

18.9 km

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