CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
195 km from Hannover to Hannover, about 3 h 20 of riding. It goes by way of Fagus Factory in Alfeld, Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey, back through Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey and back through Fagus Factory in Alfeld.
Hannover does not seek attention, which is part of its character. The capital of Lower Saxony, with about half a million people, is a flat, green, practical city on the Leine river, famous for its trade fairs, and for speaking what Germans consider the purest standard German. Large parts of the centre were destroyed in the Second World War, and the rebuilding is mostly plain, but there are fine things inside it: the Herrenhausen Gardens, a baroque garden of clipped hedges and fountains, the Maschsee, a big lake laid out in the 1930s where locals sail and jog, and the new town hall, a copper-domed building from 1913 with a lift that rises inside the dome.
Read the complete Hannover write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Hannover is where the day begins. Next is Fagus Factory in Alfeld.
Stand across the railway tracks and look at the Fagus works, and you are looking at one of the buildings where modern architecture started. In 1911 the shoe-last maker Carl Benscheidt hired a young Walter Gropius and his partner Adolf Meyer to design a new factory in Alfeld, in the Leine valley of Lower Saxony. They gave it walls of glass that seem to wrap around the corners with no column to hold them, a radical trick at the time, and the result was so influential that it became a UNESCO site in 2011. The best part: it is still a working factory making shoe lasts, not a museum frozen in place.
Read the complete Fagus Factory in Alfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fagus Factory in Alfeld comes up 27 km in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fagus Factory in Alfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
54 km in you reach Fagus Factory in Alfeld. Next is Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey.
Corvey sits in a loop of the Weser just outside Höxter, a baroque abbey palace set among meadows with the wooded hills of the Solling and the Weser Uplands closing in around it. The baroque part is handsome but not why people come. Hidden behind it, forming the entrance to the church, is a westwork built between 873 and 885, and it is one of the very few Carolingian buildings in the world still standing more or less as it was built.
Read the complete Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey, about halfway. Next is Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey comes up 136 km in. Next is back through Fagus Factory in Alfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fagus Factory in Alfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
163 km in you reach back through Fagus Factory in Alfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fagus Factory in Alfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fagus Factory in Alfeld, late in the day. Next is Hannover.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hannover write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 195 km.
Hannover → Fagus Factory in Alfeld is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fagus Factory in Alfeld → Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey → back through Fagus Factory in Alfeld is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fagus Factory in Alfeld → Hannover is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.