CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Bregenz it runs 251 km to Bregenz; allow about 4 h 20 of riding. On the way it passes Schreckensee, Konstanz-Hinterhausen, Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen and Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Austria into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
The ride follows Bregenz → Schreckensee for 61 km.
For about 9 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
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 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 comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Konstanz-Hinterhausen.
There is nothing to see at Konstanz-Hinterhausen, and that is precisely the point. Below the surface of Lake Constance, along the shore near the city, lie the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings: wooden posts, floors, pottery and food remains preserved in the mud for thousands of years. They are part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, a World Heritage site that spans six countries and over a hundred locations. Archaeologists dive to study them, but the rest of us have to make do with the view of the lake and a bit of imagination.
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At least about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Konstanz-Hinterhausen. Next is Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
Unteruhldingen is where most people first meet the prehistoric lake dwellers of the Alps, thanks to the Pfahlbaumuseum, an open-air museum of reconstructed houses on stilts standing in the shallow water of Lake Constance. It started in the 1920s and has been adding houses ever since, and walking along the wooden walkways between thatched huts gives you a vivid idea of village life thousands of years ago. The real archaeological sites, like Stollenwiesen just offshore, lie underwater, a series of settlements preserved in lake mud and listed by UNESCO in 2011 as part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps.
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Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen, about halfway. Next is Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32.
The Bodanrueck is a wooded peninsula that sticks out into the western end of Lake Constance, between the Uberlinger See and the Zeller See, and Litzelstetten is a small village on its southern side, close to the city of Konstanz. The Krahenhorn is a little promontory on the shore, and the whole area is an easy, gentle mix of orchards, forest, reeds and quiet beaches. Mainau Island, the flower island, lies just off the coast, with its palm trees and rhododendrons.
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Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 sits at 126 km, about halfway. Next is back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
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back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen comes up about 131 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Konstanz-Hinterhausen write-up.
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about 140 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen. Next is back through Schreckensee.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Schreckensee write-up.
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back through Schreckensee, late in the day. Next is Bregenz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bregenz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 251 km.
Bregenz → Schreckensee is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schreckensee → Konstanz-Hinterhausen is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Konstanz-Hinterhausen → Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 9 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 is 5 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 → back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 5 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen is 9 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen → back through Schreckensee is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Schreckensee → Bregenz is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.