The best road cycling routes around Panschwitz-Kuckau

In near-total silence, we stroll across the grounds, savoring the moment. The church shines in all its glory, bathed in the rays of the autumn sun. We enter the church; a service is in progress, and it's noticeable that Sorbian is still actively spoken here. We don't want to disturb them any further. We continue our walk through the grounds, reach the monastery café, and take a seat. After a while, we head back outside and are surprised by a flood warning sign. A few meters away, the Klosterwasser stream babbles along, almost like a brook, several meters below. We return to the church. https://youtu.be/X0epJTulrSE

This listed cemetery is one of the most beautiful in the country.

Even before his election as supreme shepherd of the Catholic Church, the then Archbishop of Buenos Aires had met several times with Rabbi Abraham Skorka for a joint book project. On the subject of the Holocaust, Jorge Bergoglio (later Pope Francis, who died Easter Monday 2025) said: "The Shoah is a genocide like the others of the 20th century, but with one particularity. I don't want to say that it is paramount in importance and the others secondary, but there is one particularity, an idolatrous construction against the Jewish people. The pure race, the superman, these are idols upon which National Socialism developed (...) And every Jew killed was a slap in the face for the living God in the name of idols." (Source: "On Heaven and Earth, Jorge Bergoglio in Conversation with Rabbi Abraham Skorka", Goldmann-Verlag, Munich 2014)

A perfectly straight bike path with a good surface on a busy road, which makes it even more enjoyable to have the bike path! 😋

A wonderful, blasting route down to Panschwitz-Kuckau. The road may look patched up, but it rolls very well and is quite wide. Traffic is light to moderate.

Super beautiful surroundings and a spring with delicious water

1356 Brewing rights granted in Wittichenau 1435 Brewery founded 1890 New malt house built 1940 Acquired by Eduard Glaab 1972 Nationalized 1990 Reprivatized 1995 New beer varieties developed 1996 Entrepreneur Award 2003 DLG Gold Seal 2003 Lusatian Lakes Radler (Shandy) 2009 Lusatian Copper launched 2010 Brau Ring Copper Award

In 1356, with the issuance of the Golden Bull by Emperor Charles IV, towns, including Wittichenau, were granted the right to brew beer. The beer was largely brewed in private, business and trading houses. A joint brewery was founded in 1435. At its peak, 95 citizens in Wittichenau with brewing rights brewed beer in their own homes and sold it in taverns. At the beginning of the 18th century, the communal brewery was built on the market square. This was demolished in 1890 and moved to the existing malt house.