Why this ride
A 181 km one-way ride from near Celle, about 2 h 12 of riding. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
German Timber Frame Road Central Section: Celle to Quedlinburg
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 181 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 12
- Journey
- One way; return travel is separate
Distance and timing basis
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: 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.
Scenic road chapters
German Timber Frame Road Central Section
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 75 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 62 km
- Named road
- German Timber Frame Road Central Section
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Celle
Celle is a town that looks like it has been preserved in a jar. More than four hundred half-timbered houses, with carved beams, painted inscriptions and crooked upper storeys, line the streets of the old centre, and the whole place has survived with very little damage because it escaped bombing in the Second World War. About seventy-one thousand people live here, on the banks of the Aller, at the southern edge of the Luneburg Heath.
Read the complete Celle write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Celle is where the day begins. Next is Goslar.
2. 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 comes up about 119 km into the recorded legs. 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
The route ends here after 181 km.
Leg by leg
Celle to Goslar
Celle → Goslar is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Goslar to Quedlinburg
Goslar → Quedlinburg is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.