CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Bregenz it runs 238 km to Bregenz; allow about 5 h 09 of riding. On the way it passes Bleiche 2-3, Abbey of St Gall, Schreckensee and back through Abbey of St Gall. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses Austria, Switzerland and Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
For 32 km this is German Alpine Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 13 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The ride follows Abbey of St Gall → Schreckensee for 72 km.
Bregenz is where Austria touches Lake Constance, the Bodensee, and the town makes the most of a small piece of shoreline. The lake is huge, shared with Germany and Switzerland, and on a clear day the far shore melts into haze. Behind the town the Pfänder rises to just over a thousand metres, with a cable car that carries you from the harbour to a ridge in a few minutes, and from the top you see the whole lake, the Rhine delta, the Alps and, with luck, a good part of three countries at once.
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Bregenz is where the day begins. Next is Bleiche 2-3.
Arbon sits on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, in the canton of Thurgau, and just outside the town, on land that was once lake shore, lies one of the most remarkable prehistoric sites in Europe. At Arbon-Bleiche, archaeologists excavated a Neolithic village of wooden houses built on the edge of the lake around 3400 BC. Because the wood was preserved in waterlogged ground, tree rings allowed the village to be dated almost to the year: it was built, lived in for about fifteen years and then destroyed by fire. The finds, from pottery and tools to textiles and food remains, gave a detailed picture of how these early farmers lived, and Arbon counts among the Swiss sites in the Alpine pile-dwelling inscription of 2011. There is nothing to see at the site itself, which is now under buildings and fields; the finds are displayed in the Thurgau archaeological museum in Frauenfeld.
Read the complete Bleiche 2-3 write-up.
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Bleiche 2-3 comes up 30 km in. Next is Abbey of St Gall.
In the centre of St Gallen, a city in north-eastern Switzerland between Lake Constance and the Appenzell hills, the twin towers of a baroque cathedral rise above a wide square, and beside them stands one of the oldest and most beautiful libraries in the world. The Abbey of St Gall was founded in the eighth century on the site where the Irish monk Gallus had settled in the early seventh century, and it became one of the great centres of learning in medieval Europe. The abbey precinct was listed by UNESCO in 1983.
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59 km in you reach Abbey of St Gall. Next is Abbey of St Gall.
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Read the complete Abbey of St Gall write-up.
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Abbey of St Gall, about halfway. Next is Schreckensee.
The Schreckensee, the lake of terror, is a disappointingly peaceful place for such a dramatic name. It is a small kettle lake in the moraine country of Upper Swabia, between Ravensburg and Aulendorf, left behind when a block of glacial ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age. Its shores, now partly bog and reed bed, hide the remains of prehistoric settlements, and it is one of the German sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As at most of these sites, nothing is visible on the surface; the timbers and household waste lie preserved underwater and in the peat, waiting for future archaeologists.
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Schreckensee sits at 118 km, about halfway. Next is back through Abbey of St Gall.
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back through Abbey of St Gall comes up 148 km in. Next is back through Abbey of St Gall.
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177 km in you reach back through Abbey of St Gall. Next is back through Bleiche 2-3.
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Read the complete Bleiche 2-3 write-up.
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back through Bleiche 2-3, late in the day. Next is Bregenz.
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Read the complete Bregenz write-up.
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The route ends here after 238 km.
Bregenz → Bleiche 2-3 is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bleiche 2-3 → Abbey of St Gall is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abbey of St Gall → Schreckensee is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Schreckensee → back through Abbey of St Gall is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abbey of St Gall → back through Bleiche 2-3 is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bleiche 2-3 → Bregenz is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.