Why this ride
93 km one way from Goslar - plan on about 1 h 12 of riding. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
German Timber Frame Road Central Section: Goslar to Wernigerode
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 93 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 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. 85 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. 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 is where the day begins. Next is Quedlinburg.
2. 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
Quedlinburg comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wernigerode.
3. Wernigerode
Wernigerode likes to call itself the colourful town of the Harz, and it earns the title. The old town, at the foot of the mountains, has half-timbered houses in every shade of red, yellow, blue and green, carved with figures and inscriptions, and a Gothic town hall with two slim towers that looks like a toy. One of the houses is among the smallest in Germany, squeezed into a gap between two larger buildings, and visitors queue to look at it.
Read the complete Wernigerode 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 93 km.
Leg by leg
Goslar to Quedlinburg
Goslar → Quedlinburg is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Quedlinburg to Wernigerode
Quedlinburg → Wernigerode is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
More motorcycle rides nearby
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