CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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297 km from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, about 4 h 01 of riding. On the way it passes Unfriedshausen, Pestenacker, Water Management System of Augsburg and back through Water Management System of Augsburg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 33 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen lies in a wide Alpine valley in Bavaria, close to the Austrian border, with the Wetterstein range rising behind it and the Zugspitze, at 2,962 metres the highest mountain in Germany, standing at the end of the valley. The town is really two, Garmisch and Partenkirchen, joined together for the 1936 Winter Olympics, and each still has its own character. Partenkirchen, the older part, has a Roman history, as it stood on the road across the Alps, and its main street, with painted houses, is the more charming.
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen is where the day begins. Next is Unfriedshausen.
Unfriedshausen is a hamlet in the rolling farmland west of the Ammersee, part of the municipality of Geltendorf in the Landsberg district of Bavaria, and if you have never heard of it, you are in good company. This is the gentle, prosperous countryside between Munich and Augsburg, a patchwork of fields, meadows, spruce woods, onion-domed churches and farmhouses with balconies full of geraniums, and it is the kind of place where the main event of the day might be a tractor crossing the road.
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Unfriedshausen comes up 33 km in. Next is Pestenacker.
Pestenacker is a field in Bavaria with a secret under it. Around five and a half thousand years ago, Neolithic farmers built a settlement on the damp ground near the Lech, and the waterlogged soil preserved timber, tools and household remains that would have rotted elsewhere. It belongs to the family of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, inscribed by UNESCO in 2011, a group that also includes the Roseninsel in Lake Starnberg to the south. What you see at the surface is modest, since most of the evidence is below ground, so the interest here lies in imagining.
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At least 74 km in you reach Pestenacker. Next is Water Management System of Augsburg.
Augsburg was a Roman town, a medieval free imperial city and the home of the fabulously rich Fugger banking family, but the thing that held it all together was water. Over the centuries, the city built an intricate network of canals fed by the Lech and Wertach rivers, water towers, pumping stations and fountains, supplying clean drinking water to the citizens and power to mills and workshops. The system was so advanced that UNESCO inscribed it in 2019, recognising twenty-two sites, from the water towers at the Red Gate, dating back to the fifteenth century, to the great Renaissance fountains dedicated to Augustus, Mercury and Hercules on the main street.
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Water Management System of Augsburg, about halfway.
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Water Management System of Augsburg sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Water Management System of Augsburg.
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back through Water Management System of Augsburg comes up 166 km in. Next is back through Pestenacker.
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200 km in you reach back through Pestenacker. Next is back through Unfriedshausen.
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back through Unfriedshausen, late in the day. Next is Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
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The route ends here after 297 km.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen → Unfriedshausen is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pestenacker → Water Management System of Augsburg is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Water Management System of Augsburg → back through Pestenacker is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Unfriedshausen → Garmisch-Partenkirchen is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.