Six lakes in one day

When a bicycle tour features six natural lakes back-to-back, there’s nothing that can halt the excitement ahead of this day out. One more advantage makes this prospect all the more interesting: The water quality in the lakes is excellent. You can interrupt your tour of the lakes, starting and finishing in Guben in Niederlausitz, with a dip in the cool water or even top it off with a swim. The clean water also guarantees great natural diversity in the lakes and on their banks. Aquatic birds, storks and many other animals can be observed en route or during a rest surrounded by nature.

You’ll be able to enjoy tastes of history on the route, too, starting in Guben itself, where the streets still bear signs of a once-proud textile town. From here Poland is just a stone’s throw away – only the River Neiße separates the double town of Guben/Gubin. There are also lots of villages well worth seeing between the lakes.

Length: 58 kilometres / Duration: 4,5 hours

Start/finish: Guben railway station

Logo/route sign: not specified

How to get there:

• Train: Take the RE1 regional express train from Berlin Friedrichstrasse to Frankfurt(Oder) and then continue with the RB11 (Cottbus) regional train to Guben (about 2 hours).
• Car: Take the A12 and B12 from Berlin to Guben, passing Frankfurt(Oder) (about 2 hours).

via: Groß Breesen, Sembten, Schieben, Lake Göhlensee, Groß Drewitz, Pinnow, Lake Pinnower See, Lake Kleinsee, Lake Großsee, Drewitz, Lake Pastlingsee, Grabko, Kerkwitz, Lake Deulowitzer See, Kaltenborn

Cycling-by-numbers: The full-day “Six lakes in one day” tour can also be cycled using the new signposts along the junctions. You pass the following junctions by the start/finish in Guben town centre at junction 74: 29, 28, 73, 16, 15, 14, 2, 3, 1, 5, 6, 76, 67, 72, 45, 43, 41, 39, 25, 26, 74

Recommended sights along the route:

• Guben town centre
• Stadt- und Industriemuseum Guben
• Natural lakes: Lake Göhlensee, Lake Pinnower See, Lake Deulowitzer See, Lake Kleinsee, Lake Großsee, Lake Pastlingsee
• Village churches in Groß Breesen, Sembten, Pinnow, Drewitz, Kerkwitz

Tip: If you fancy a boat tour, you can interrupt the bike tour for a rowing boat trip across Lake Deulowitz or a raft tour on Lake Göhlensee.

Restaurant Tips:

• Ratskeller "Tercet" in Gubin Restaurant
• Karpfenschänke in Pinnow

Possible combinations:

• The small village church tour
• Small technology tour
• Tour Brandenburg
• Oder-Neiße Cycle Path

Trail conditions/surface: mainly paved cycle paths, a few sections on side roads or firm, gravel paths, mostly flat, only a few sections slightly hilly

Maps/Literature:

• Brochure “Radwandern Guben/Gubin”, publisher: Marketing und Tourismus Guben e.V., free
• Spreewald, Schlaubetal, Cottbus; 1: 70 000 Kompass Fahrradkarte, ISBN 978-3-85026-291-0, Euro 8.99 
• Mit dem Rad unterwegs Region Spree-Neiße, 1:75 000 Semmler Verlag, ISBN 978-3-935826-02-0, Euro 8.00
• Bikeline Radkarte Spreewald, Burg, Eisenhüttenstadt, Guben, Lübben, Lübbenau,1:75.000, Esterbauer Verlag 07/2016, ISBN-13: 978-3850003070, 6.90 Euro