CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 229 km round trip from Berchtesgaden - roughly 3 h 54 in the saddle. The stops in between: Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, See, Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur and back through See. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Germany into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
26 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it — speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 41 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go. Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
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Berchtesgaden sits in the far southeast corner of Germany, in a pocket of Bavaria that pokes into Austria, and the mountains here do not bother to be modest. The Watzmann, at 2,713 metres Germany's second highest mountain, stands above the valley in a long ridge, with the pale wall of the Hochkalter opposite. The town is the end of the German Alpine Road, which runs from Lake Constance, and it feels like the end of the line, with the peaks closing in on all sides. For centuries the local economy rested on salt, and the salt mine, worked since the sixteenth century, is open to visitors who put on miners' clothes and slide down the wooden chutes.
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Berchtesgaden is where the day begins. Next is Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Salzburg's old town is a stage set that happens to be real. Squeezed between the river Salzach and the steep rock of the Mönchsberg, it packs baroque domes, church towers and tall merchants' houses into a few dense streets, while the white walls of Hohensalzburg fortress sit high above everything like a lid on a jewellery box. The city has around a hundred and fifty thousand people, yet the centre still feels small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg comes up 27 km in.
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Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
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54 km in you reach Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. Next is See.
At the southeastern tip of the Mondsee, where the lake narrows toward the Attersee and the cliffs of the Drachenwand and the Schafberg crowd in on both sides, lies a hamlet with the shortest name you will find on any map: See. Just offshore, in the shallow water where the lake drains, divers found the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement, and the finds were so characteristic that archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after the lake: the Mondsee culture, known for its decorated pottery and early copper working. The site is part of the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and as with most of them, there is nothing to see except the water, which is part of the point.
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See, about halfway. Next is Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
Salt made all of this. Long before anyone thought of postcards, people were tunnelling into the mountain above Hallstatt for it, and finds from the prehistoric mine and its cemetery were so rich that archaeologists named a whole phase of the European Iron Age, the Hallstatt culture, after a village you can walk across in ten minutes. The Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut cultural landscape, inscribed in 1997, takes in the lake, the village, the salt mountain, the limestone massif of the Dachstein and the valleys around Gosau, Bad Goisern and Bad Aussee.
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Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through See.
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Read the complete See write-up.
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back through See comes up 136 km in. Next is back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
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163 km in you reach back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
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back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg, late in the day. Next is Berchtesgaden.
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The route ends here after 229 km.
Berchtesgaden → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → See is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
See → Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → back through See is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through See → back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Berchtesgaden is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.