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Geli went for a bike ride
August 31, 2026 at 13:47
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3 days ago
...the "Ringgleis"🛤️ was built from 1886 onwards as a circular railway connection around the city center with important stations like West - Nord - Ost and the main train station located to the south 🚂...
...the western part served as an industrial track... there were 50 commercial and supply companies
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Geli went for a hike
August 27, 2026 at 08:22
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7 days ago
...our circular hike 🥾 through the "Gifhorner Heide"🪻 we start at the "Herrmann Löns" parking lot in Winkel...
...the areas of Gifhorner Heide and Fahlen Heide were merged in 2014...
thus a nature reserve 🌿🦋🐜 was created with a total area of 325 ha...
... the Gifhorner Heide with 32 ha is only a small
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Geli went for a hike
August 21, 2026 at 14:27
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August 22, 2026
...visiting my girlfriend 🤗...
...the NSG "Hücker Moor" is a wonderful biotope for many birds 🐦 and insects 🐜🦋...
...over 100,000 years ago, a sinkhole formed by a landslip, which filled with water...this created a fen...in the 18th and 19th centuries, peat was mined here...today the forest around
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Geli went for a bike ride
August 15, 2026 at 08:24
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August 16, 2026
...our last stage begins with a visit to the impressive "Citadel" 🏰Spandau...the citadel is one of the best-preserved Renaissance structures in Europe... the medieval castle was brought up to the technical standard of the time around 1554 and further expanded... a visit is definitely worthwhile
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Geli went for a bike ride
August 14, 2026 at 07:28
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August 14, 2026
...under the motto "pack your swimming trunks" we continue today along the Havel to the Wannsee 🌊⛵...
... we leave Potsdam and cross the "Glienicker Bridge"... the bridge was known as the "Bridge of Spies" during the "Cold War"... spies from West and East Germany were exchanged there in three major operations
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Geli went for a bike ride
August 13, 2026 at 08:57
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August 13, 2026
By bike 🚴 and also on foot 🥾 we are on the road today and are visiting three UNESCO World Heritage Sites 😍 in Potsdam..
..Alexandrina 🏚️...
..the Russian colony was built in 1826/27 by Friedrich Wilhelm III in memory of his friend Tsar Alexander... the artfully designed wooden houses were inhabited
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Geli went for a bike ride
August 12, 2026 at 07:26
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August 12, 2026
... back on the cycle path, we first make a small detour to the "Marina Werder"🚤🛥️... modern... chic... boats ⛵ as far as the eye can see 😉... from the promenade there is a beautiful view of the "Großer Zernsee"😍...
... the further route now first leads through the town of Werder before we cross the
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Geli went for a bike ride
August 11, 2026 at 11:44
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August 11, 2026
...in the coming days we want to cycle a stretch of the HAVELRADWEG 🚴 😊...
we have chosen the route from Brandenburg to Oranienburg because the onward and return journey can be easily made by train 🚆...
... after a short city tour, we leave Brandenburg in the direction of Gollwitz...
initially, the cycle
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Geli went for a hike
August 8, 2026 at 09:03
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August 8, 2026
...…actually I didn't want to publish this walk 😉...…but why not...…this short loop was nice after all ☺️...
...…on a well-kept and freshly mown path, you can learn about the special features of various tree species 🌳 on this nature trail....…unfortunately, most of the information signs are no longer
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Geli went for a hike
August 2, 2026 at 08:10
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August 2, 2026
...the Bienroder See 🫧 was formed after gravel extraction ended in the 1970s and the excavation pit filled with groundwater...
...the lake is popular with swimmers 🏊 and anglers 🐟... Pike... Zander... Perch... Carp... amazing what swims in such an excavation lake 😯😉...
...around it you will find a
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Geli went for a hike
July 23, 2026 at 08:04
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July 23, 2026
...on to the final sprint 🥾...
...we start the last stage from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg 🏰 at Ballenstedt Castle, which is now a hotel 🏨... the normally freely accessible castle park is unfortunately closed due to tree felling...
...so we go around the outside to the stamp point 🕹️ Arboretum "Forstmeister
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Geli went for a hike
July 22, 2026 at 08:10
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July 22, 2026
...at the beginning of our hike 🥾 we make the ascent to the castle 🏰 "Falkenstein" for the HWN stamp 🕹️ 200😉...
...the further path to Meisdorf leads along the banks of the Selke... always through dense, green forest 🌳...on easily walkable paths 😀...
...shortly before Meisdorf we encounter the "Mausoleum
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Geli went for a hike
July 21, 2026 at 07:46
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July 21, 2026
...today's stage is considered the most beautiful section of the Selketalstieg and leads deep into the enchanted... almost mystical valley 🏞️...
...we start from our hotel 🏨 in Alexisbad and hike 🥾 initially along the stream... later ascending above the Selke on the promenade path and later on the
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Geli went for a hike
July 20, 2026 at 07:58
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July 20, 2026
...Pure nature 🌿🌲🌳...
on this stage we are on beautiful, lonely forest paths and single trails...
...unfortunately, at the beginning we had to leave the Selketalstieg due to a closure 😁 and take a not so nice detour...
🥺...from Strassberg we could then continue on the "original" again...
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...the NSG "Heiliger Hain" near Betzhorn is with 56 ha the largest contiguous heathland area in the Südheide 🪻 near Gifhorn...
...the juniper heathland found here is a centuries-old cultural landscape... created by land management... predominantly through sheep farming 🐑...the moorland sheep nibble
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