Historic Town Centres Cycle Routes - Route 3

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Address

Start of tour

Karl-Marx-Straße 40
16816 Neuruppin

End of tour

Karl-Marx-Straße 40
16816 Neuruppin

Contact address

Tourismusverband Prignitz e.V.
Großer Markt 4
19348 Perleberg

Historic Town Centres Cycle Routes - Route 3

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Length: 291 km

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Length: 291 km

The Prignitz region - Waterways, Trade Routes, Pilgrimage Routes: A Bronze Age king, marauding knights and merchants shaped the millennia-old natural and cultural landscape of the Prignitz region, which is halfway between Hamburg and Berlin. The Historic Town Centres Cycle Route 3 starts in the Fontane town of Neuruppin and takes you to the battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War at Wittstock/Dosse, to the monastery walls of Heiligengrabe, to Lenzen castle in the Elbe River Landscape Biosphere Reserve and through once important trading towns such as Perleberg, Havelberg and Wusterhausen/Dosse.

Ancient pilgrimage and trade routes cross this path, village churches tell stories about the importance of the community, and the rivers Dosse, Stepenitz and Elbe are your faithful companions. Stage maps and town maps for tourists help you find your way around.

Length: 291 kilometres

Start/finish: Neuruppin

Logo/route sign: Logo with town silhouette

How to get there:

Train: Take the S25 from Berlin Friedrichstrasse to Hennigsdorf. From here, take the RE6 (Wittenberge) to Neuruppin (about 1 hour).
Car: From Berlin via the A10 and A24 to Neuruppin (about 1 hour).

Route: Neuruppin, Wittstock (Dosse), Pritzwalk, Perleberg, Wittenberge, Havelberg, Neustadt (Dosse), Wusterhausen, Neuruppin

Points of interest/background information:

Neuruppin
Wittstock (Dosse): Town wall
Perleberg: St. Jakobi church, Roland statue
Lenzen: Castle, Elbe floodplain landscape
Wusterhausen (Dosse): St. Peter and Paul church

Possible combinations

Ruppin Lakes and Culture Cycle Path
Elbe-Müritz Circular Trail
Gänsetour Cycle Path
Bishop’s Tour
Tour Brandenburg
Elbe Cycle Path
Havel Cycle Path

Trail conditions/surface: not specified

Maps/Literature:

Reiseführer zur Radroute Historische Stadtkerne 3 “Unterwegs in der Prignitz - Wasserwege, Handelswege, Pilgerwege”, Verlag terra press, Auflage: 1 (Juli 2019), ISBN 978-3-942917-42-1, Euro 10
ADFC Regionalkarte Radlerparadies Prignitz, 1:75 000, Bielefelder Verlag, 1. Auflage (8. April 2015) , ISBN 978-3-87073-674-3, Euro 8.95
“Radkarte Ruppiner Land”, 1:75.000, Esterbauer Verlag, Auflage: 1. (15. April 2011), ISBN-10: 3850003043, Euro 6.90
“Potsdam - Havelland - Fläming: Fahrradkarte. GPS-genau”, 1:70000, KOMPASS-Karten; Auflage: 3 (1. März 2016), ISBN-13: 978-3850262729, Euro 7.99

Train: Take the S25 from Berlin Friedrichstrasse to Hennigsdorf. From here, take the RE6 (Wittenberge) to Neuruppin (about 1 hour).
Car: From Berlin via the A10 and A24 to Neuruppin (about 1 hour).

Route: Neuruppin, Wittstock (Dosse), Pritzwalk, Perleberg, Wittenberge, Havelberg, Neustadt (Dosse), Wusterhausen, Neuruppin

Points of interest/background information:

Neuruppin
Wittstock (Dosse): Town wall
Perleberg: St. Jakobi church, Roland statue
Lenzen: Castle, Elbe floodplain landscape
Wusterhausen (Dosse): St. Peter and Paul church

Possible combinations

Ruppin Lakes and Culture Cycle Path
Elbe-Müritz Circular Trail
Gänsetour Cycle Path
Bishop’s Tour
Tour Brandenburg
Elbe Cycle Path
Havel Cycle Path

Trail conditions/surface: not specified

Maps/Literature:

Reiseführer zur Radroute Historische Stadtkerne 3 “Unterwegs in der Prignitz - Wasserwege, Handelswege, Pilgerwege”, Verlag terra press, Auflage: 1 (Juli 2019), ISBN 978-3-942917-42-1, Euro 10
ADFC Regionalkarte Radlerparadies Prignitz, 1:75 000, Bielefelder Verlag, 1. Auflage (8. April 2015) , ISBN 978-3-87073-674-3, Euro 8.95
“Radkarte Ruppiner Land”, 1:75.000, Esterbauer Verlag, Auflage: 1. (15. April 2011), ISBN-10: 3850003043, Euro 6.90
“Potsdam - Havelland - Fläming: Fahrradkarte. GPS-genau”, 1:70000, KOMPASS-Karten; Auflage: 3 (1. März 2016), ISBN-13: 978-3850262729, Euro 7.99