Six lakes in one day

When there are six nat­ural lakes in a row on a cycle tour, there is noth­ing to stop you look­ing for­ward to the excur­sion. This even increases with the hint of another advan­tage: the water qual­ity of the lakes is excel­lent. This means that the lake tour with start and fin­ish in Guben in Lower Lusa­tia can be inter­rupted or even crowned with a dip in the cool water at any time. In addi­tion, the clean water guar­an­tees a great wealth of nature in the lakes and on their shores. Water­fowl, storks and many other ani­mals can be eas­ily observed on the way or dur­ing a rest in the coun­try­side.

But the route also offers insights into his­tory. These are already avail­able at the start in Guben, whose streets still bear wit­ness to the once proud city of the tex­tile indus­try. It is only a stone's throw from here to Poland, as only the Neisse River sep­a­rates the dou­ble city of Guben-Gubin. Between the lakes are many vil­lages worth see­ing.

Length: 63 km / Dura­tion: 4.5 hours

Start / Fin­ish: Guben Tourist Infor­ma­tion
Route: Guben, Groß Breesen, Sem­bten, Schieben, Göhlensee, Groß Drewitz, Pin­now, Pin­nower See, Klein­see, Großsee, Drewitz, Pastlingsee, Grabko, Kerk­witz, Deu­low­itzer See, Kaltenborn, Guben

Logo / route signs: Junc­tion sign­post

Arrival / Depar­ture:

• By train: from Berlin with RE1 and RB43 or RE2 and RE10 (approx. 2h)
• By car: from Berlin via the A12 and B12 past Frank­furt(Oder) to Guben (approx. 2h)
• Park­ing avail­able at Guben rail­way sta­tion

Junc­tion sign­post­ing: The day's tour can also be cycled along junc­tions using the sign­post­ing sys­tem. The fol­low­ing junc­tions are passed from junc­tion 74 in the town cen­tre of Guben: 29, 28, 73, 16, 15, 14, 2, 3, 1, 4, 5, 6, 76, 67, 72, 45, 43, 41, 38, 39, 25, 26, 36, 34, 74.

Route con­di­tions: mainly asphalted cycle paths, few sec­tions on side roads or hard, grav­elled paths, mainly flat, only a few sec­tions slightly hilly.

Sight­see­ing / things to know:

• City cen­tre of the twin town of Guben-Gubin
• Guben City and Indus­try Museum
• Nat­ural lakes: Göhlensee, Pin­nower See, Deu­low­itzer See, Klein­see, Großsee, Pastlingsee
• Vil­lage churches: in Groß Breesen, Sem­bten, Pin­now, Drewitz, Kerk­witz

Tip: If you fancy a boat trip, you can inter­rupt your cycle tour for a row­boat trip across Lake Deu­lowitz or a raft trip on Lake Göhlensee.

Restau­rant tips:

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

Pos­si­ble com­bi­na­tions:

• The small vil­lage church tour
• Small tech­ni­cal tour
• Tour Bran­den­burg
• Oder-Neisse Cycle Route
• Nieder­ausitz Min­ing Tour

Maps / Lit­er­a­ture:

• Brochure "Cycling Guben/Gubin", pub­lished by Mar­ket­ing und Touris­mus Guben e.V., free of charge
• Spree­wald, Schlaube­tal, Cot­tbus; 1: 70 000 Kom­pass cycle map, ISBN 978-3-85026-291-0, 8.99 euros
• Cycling in the Spree-Neisse Region, 1:75 000 Semm­ler Ver­lag, ISBN 978-3-935826-02-0, 8.00 Euro
• Bike­line cycle map Beeskow, Burg, Eisenhütten­stadt, Guben, Lübben, Lübbe­nau, 1:75,000, Ester­bauer Ver­lag (07/2016), ISBN-13: 978-3850003070, 6.90 Euro