Why this ride
Sustained elevation change, linked bends and open summit views. It also links naturally to Mines of Rammelsberg and Quedlinburg.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Harz High Roads
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 85 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 21
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Access context
Check motorcycle weekend restrictions and noise-control closures on specific roads. Specific flag: weekend restrictions possible; weather.
Seasonal context
Apr-Oct
Scenic road chapters
German Timber Frame Road Central Section
For 23 km this is German Timber Frame Road Central Section, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 23 km
- Named road
- German Timber Frame Road Central Section
German Timber Frame Road Central Section
38 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 38 km
- Named road
- German Timber Frame Road Central Section
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Goslar
Goslar is the town where Harz mining became legend. For more than a thousand years, miners dug silver, lead, copper and zinc from the Rammelsberg hill just outside the town, and the wealth built an imperial city. Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire held court at the Kaiserpfalz, the great palace hall beside the old town, which was built in the eleventh century and rebuilt in the nineteenth. The Rammelsberg mine closed in 1988, after a thousand years of work, and UNESCO listed the mine and the old town in 1992, later adding the water management system of the Upper Harz.
Read the complete Goslar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Goslar sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Braunlage.
2. Braunlage
Braunlage is the Harz mountains' main winter town, a place of hotels and guesthouses sitting in a high bowl at around five hundred and sixty metres, ringed by spruce forest. Above it rises the Wurmberg, at 971 metres the highest summit in Lower Saxony, with a cable car, a ski area and, on a clear day, a good view of the Brocken, the Harz's bald and brooding top, which sits across the old inner-German border in Saxony-Anhalt. The Brocken is where Goethe sent Faust and his witches to dance on Walpurgis Night, and the whole region leans happily into the witch theme.
Read the complete Braunlage write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Braunlage comes up 31 km in. Next is Quedlinburg.
3. Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg is one of the best preserved medieval towns in Germany, with roughly thirteen hundred half-timbered houses, a number that is hard to believe until you have walked its streets. The whole old town, with the castle hill and the abbey church, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1994. The houses date from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and many have been restored with care.
Read the complete Quedlinburg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
85 km in you reach Quedlinburg.
Recorded source links
More motorcycle rides nearby
- Harz Mountain Route from Goslar · 92 km
- Collegiate Church and Hainich · 393 km
- Church of St. Wiperti and Hainich · 391 km