Velo Europe and Cycling in and around Berlin
Many waterways and forests are ideal conditions for good cycling tours from and around Berlin.
On the one hand, the Spree flows through the city, which then flows into the Havel in the western part of Spandau.
Both rivers serve as orientation for the cycle routes and stages from and to Berlin.
There is also a signposted cycle path on the former frontier between the FRG and the GDR ( wall cycle path)
The Berlin S-Bahn can be used on wheels and, if desired, will take us out of the city centre first.
Velo Europe - Daily stages from Berlin
1) Berlin to Potsdam via Wannsee (Havel) ,ca 41 km, train 25 min , 2 x per hour, connection stages to Bad Belzig and Brandenburg/Havel
2) Berlin to Erkner approx. 41 km, train approx. 32-47 min, 2-3 times per hr, connection stages to Strausberg, Königs Wusterhausen and Fürstenwalde/Spree
3) Berlin to Bermau bei Berlin, 30 km, train approx. 40 min, 2x per hour, connection stage to Eberswalde
4) Berlin to Hennisgsdorf, abt 34 km, abt 45-50 min 1-2 x per hr, connections steges Oranienburg(Havel),
The Velo Europe Routes from Berlin
Berlin to Breslau
Through the Berlin city, follow the Spree in an easterly direction. After Köpenick and Müggelsee we leave Berlin parallel to the river Spree in direction Fürstenwalde.
From Fürstenwalde we continue via the Spree - Oder connection (Spree - Oder connection canal) to Eisenhüttenstadt at the German-Polish border. From here we follow the Oder upstream through the Lebus landscape to the Silesian town of Breslau an der Oder.
Berlin to Dresden
Variant 1 - first to Fürstenwalde/Spree (see route to Breslau) - from there we take a southern course through the Spreewald. We follow the wide and widely branched Spree, in southern direction via Cottbus and Bautzen.
From Bautzen at the Spree we cycle a connection leading to the west to the Elbe in the Saxon capital Dresden.
Option 2 to Dresden first leads from the main station in the direction of Spandau and from there through the Grunewald forest along the Havel river downstream to Potsdam.
The Havel is here partly hardly recognizable as a river, since it forms lake landscapes to which also the Wannsee counts.
Potsdam is only 30 km away.
Every year Potsdam attracts many tourists from all over the world, who visit the many worth seeing castles and parks (among others Sanssouci) of Prussian rulers.
From Potsdam follow the Havel to Schielowsee.
There we leave the river and cycle through the nature park Hoher Fläming to the Luther town Wittenberg an Elbe.
From the historic Luther town of Wittenberg we follow the Elbe upstream to Dresden.
Option 3 - if you want to cycle an even longer way you can also follow the Havel from Potsdam/ Schielowsee to the mouth of the Havel near Havelberg and then drive up the Elbe river via Lutherstadt to Dresden.
Berlin to Leipzig
We choose the same routes along the Elbe, which we also use to Dresden via Lutherstadt Wittenberg or Havelberg, follow the Elbe upstream to Riesa an der Elbe. From Riesa we use the Elbe-Parthe connection via Grimma to Leipzig.
In phase 2 we plan to use the rivers Mulde and Saale for routes to Leipzig, from Barby an der Mulde and from Dessau an der Saale. The Mulde and Saale rivers are tributaries of the Elbe.
Berlin to Hamburg
Variant 1 - we cycle the above mentioned route via Postdam along the Havel via Brandenburg to the mouth of the Havel to Havelberg.
From Havelberg we follow the Elbe downstream into the Hanseatic city of Hamburg.
Option 2 is the route along the Havel, upstream, through the Müritz-Seenplatte, Mecklenburg Vorpommern to Rostock on the Baltic Sea.
From Rostock along the Baltic Sea coast to Lübeck and from Lübeck along the Trave and a canal to the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, which we reach from the east.
Berlin to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern + Denmark
A path leads us over the Havel upstream from the city via Fürstenberg an der Havel in the direction of Mecklenburg Vorpommern through the lake district of the Müritz to the Baltic Sea coast to Rostock.
A second route is a signposted long-distance cycle path from Berlin to Copenhagen and parallel to the Panke to Bernau near Berlin and further through the landscape of the biosphere reserve Schorfheide - Chorin. Then along the Uecker via Prenzlau to Ückermünde through the nature park at the Stettiner Haff.
Near Anklam / Greifswald / Stralsund on the Baltic Sea cycle path, which takes us via Stralsund to Rostock.
From Rostock there is the possibility to transfer to Gedser or to cycle along the Baltic Sea coast via Lübeck to Fehmarn.
The Danish part from Gedser or Rödbyhavn is described under Routes in Denmark (Denmark see option Copenhagen).
Berlin to Hannover
On the way to the capital of Lower Saxony we first cycle via Postdam along the Havel to the mouth of the Havel to Havelberg.
From there we follow the
