Six lakes in one day

Experience six natural lakes – Entertaining interaction between nature and history

Length: 58 kilometres | 4.5 hours

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, 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 55-kilometre-long 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.

Start/finish: Guben town centre (junction 74)

• Tourist information centre, Frankfurter Strasse 21, 03172 Guben OR
• Railway station, Bahnhofsberg, 03172 Guben (coordinates: 51.9565953N, 14.7074014E)

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 (junction 74):
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
• Canoe and inflatable boat tours on the River Neiße

There are notes on the accessibility of this tour. There is also information on accessibility with the following providers along the route:

• Freizeitbad Guben
• Stadt- und Industriemuseum Guben
• Plastinarium Guben

Possible combinations:

• Tour Brandenburg
• Oder-Neiße Cycle Path
• Historic Town Centres Cycle Routes

How to get there

• Car/parking:
• Stadtverwaltung Guben, Straupitzstrasse, 03172 Guben OR
• Railway station, Bahnhofsberg, 03172 Guben
• Train: RE 1 train line from Berlin (southbound)
• Bus: Neißeverkehr Spree Neiße 877

Maps/Literature:

• Brochure “Radwandern Guben/Gubin”, publisher: Marketing und Tourismus Guben e.V., free
• Guben und Umgebung, Wander- und Radwanderkarte, 1:50.000, Sachsen Kartographie GmbH Dresden, ISBN 3-932281-20-9
• Niederlausitz, Wander- und Radwanderkarte, 1:75.000, Sachsen Kartographie GmbH Dresden ISBN 978-3-932281-16-7