Why this ride
Out of Stolberg, one way: 58 km, roughly 1 h 12 in the saddle. Kyffhäuser serpentines is the high point.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Kyffhäuser Hairpin Expedition · part 2
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 58 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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Stolberg Harz old road
Stolberg is a tiny half-timbered town of about fourteen hundred people in a narrow valley on the southern edge of the Harz, so well preserved that people often call it a museum in itself, with houses leaning against each other along the main street and a castle on the hill above. It was the seat of the counts of Stolberg, whose line ran for centuries, and the birthplace of Thomas Müntzer, the preacher and radical leader of the Peasants' War of 1525, who was executed after the battle of Frankenhausen not far to the south.
Read the complete Stolberg Harz old road write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Stolberg Harz old road is where the day begins. Next is Kyffhäuser serpentines.
2. Kyffhäuser serpentines
Kyffhäuser is a modest range of wooded hills on the border of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, just rising out of the Goldene Aue plain, and it is soaked in legend. The hills are low, but they stand alone above the flat plain, so the views from the top are remarkable.
Read the complete Kyffhäuser serpentines write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Nordhausen reset stop.
3. Nordhausen reset stop
Nordhausen is a town of some forty-four thousand people on the southern edge of the Harz, the biggest place for a wide area, and it carries a heavy history that deserves a pause. In the last years of the Second World War the Nazis built a huge underground factory in the nearby Kohnstein hill, where V-2 rockets were assembled by prisoners from the Mittelbau-Dora camp, and thousands died of hunger, disease and brutality. The Dora memorial and museum at the site is a serious, sober place, open to the public. In April 1945 the town itself was destroyed in air raids, and most of the old centre was lost.
Read the complete Nordhausen reset stop 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 58 km.
Leg by leg
Stolberg Harz old road to Kyffhäuser serpentines
Stolberg Harz old road → Kyffhäuser serpentines is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kyffhäuser serpentines to Nordhausen reset stop
Kyffhäuser serpentines → Nordhausen reset stop is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.