CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Bregenz it runs 455 km to Bregenz; allow about 7 h 51 of riding. The stops in between: Allensbach-Strandbad, Olzreute-Enzisholz, Monastic Island of Reichenau and back through Monastic Island of Reichenau. 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. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 1 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Allensbach-Strandbad.
Lake Constance does not do dramatic. It does soft: a huge sheet of water, a far shore that comes and goes with the haze, and little towns with tidy promenades that seem to have been tidied again while you were not looking. Allensbach's Strandbad is one of those spots, a lido on the Gnadensee, the western arm of the lake, with a swimming area, grass banks and a view across to the Reichenau island and the Swiss shore beyond.
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Allensbach-Strandbad comes up 57 km in. Next is Olzreute-Enzisholz.
Some five thousand years ago, someone in Upper Swabia built a wheel out of a single maple plank, mounted it on an axle and used it to move loads across the soft ground near what is now Bad Schussenried. The wheel turned up during excavations at the moor settlement of Olzreute-Enzisholz and is among the oldest wheels ever found in Central Europe, dated to around 2900 BC. The settlement, a group of pile dwellings on the edge of a former lake, is one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps listed by UNESCO in 2011, a transnational site across six countries.
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114 km in you reach Olzreute-Enzisholz. Next is Monastic Island of Reichenau.
Reichenau is a flat, green island in the Untersee, the western arm of Lake Constance, connected to the mainland by a long causeway lined with poplars. A wandering bishop named Pirmin founded the monastery here in 724, and over the next centuries it became one of the great centres of learning and art in Europe, famous for its scriptorium and its illuminated manuscripts. The island's three Romanesque churches survive, and UNESCO listed the whole as a World Heritage Site in 2000.
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Monastic Island of Reichenau, about halfway.
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Monastic Island of Reichenau sits at 228 km, about halfway. Next is back through Monastic Island of Reichenau.
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back through Monastic Island of Reichenau comes up 284 km in. Next is back through Olzreute-Enzisholz.
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341 km in you reach back through Olzreute-Enzisholz. Next is back through Allensbach-Strandbad.
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Read the complete Allensbach-Strandbad write-up.
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back through Allensbach-Strandbad, late in the day. Next is Bregenz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bregenz write-up.
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The route ends here after 455 km.
Bregenz → Allensbach-Strandbad is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Allensbach-Strandbad → Olzreute-Enzisholz is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Olzreute-Enzisholz → Monastic Island of Reichenau is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Monastic Island of Reichenau → back through Olzreute-Enzisholz is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Olzreute-Enzisholz → back through Allensbach-Strandbad is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Allensbach-Strandbad → Bregenz is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.