CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
The Rostock escape that actually feels like a ride. Out of Bad Doberan and back again: 74 km, roughly 1 h 28 in the saddle. It goes by way of Kühlungsborn sea road, Rerik coast view and Satow inland bends. It keeps close to the shore for long stretches.
For about 13 km this is Baltic Coast Scenic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 19 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go. Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
Bad Doberan has one of the finest brick Gothic churches in Europe, and it was built by monks. The minster, the Doberaner Münster, was the church of a Cistercian abbey founded in the twelfth century, and the present building, finished in the fourteenth century, is a tall, plain, pale-red brick basilica whose clear lines and soaring interior are the essence of the Baltic Gothic style. The abbey was dissolved at the Reformation, but the church survived, and the dukes of Mecklenburg were buried inside. Its stained glass, carved altars and a huge cross from the Middle Ages are still there.
Read the complete Bad Doberan minster write-up.
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Bad Doberan minster is where the day begins. Next is Kühlungsborn sea road.
Kühlungsborn is the largest seaside resort on the German Baltic coast, and from the top of the sea road you see why. A promenade runs for several kilometres along the beach, backed by rows of white villas in the old seaside style, with turrets, balconies and carved woodwork, many of them built in the decades before the First World War, when this was a fashionable resort for the Mecklenburg court and for visitors from Berlin. The beach is wide, pale and fine-grained, and the sea beyond is calm and shallow.
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Kühlungsborn sea road comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rerik coast view.
Rerik lies on the Salzhaff, a sheltered lagoon on the Mecklenburg Baltic coast, separated from the open sea by a long narrow peninsula called Wustrow, and the viewpoint looks across a landscape of water, reeds and low hills. It is a place of birds: in spring and autumn migrating geese, cranes and waders fill the lagoon, and the quiet shore draws birdwatchers with binoculars. The air smells of salt, seaweed and grass, and the light is wide and pale.
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about 27 km into the recorded legs you reach Rerik coast view. Next is Satow inland bends.
Satow is a village on the long, low plateau behind the Mecklenburg Baltic coast, a few kilometres inland from the sea and well off the usual tourist track. The town of Satow-Oberhagen has about six thousand people, and the countryside around it is a mix of cornfields, small woods and the avenues of old lime and chestnut trees that line so many roads in Mecklenburg. Following them is half the pleasure of riding here.
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Satow inland bends, late in the day. Next is back to Bad Doberan minster.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bad Doberan minster write-up.
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Back at back to Bad Doberan minster. That is the ride.
Kühlungsborn sea road → Rerik coast view is the reward section in Rostock. Look through the bends, use legal pull-offs for photos and keep a little margin for tractors, cyclists and damp shade. The best ride here is smooth, not noisy.
This Rerik coast view → Satow inland bends stretch is for rhythm and scenery. Keep your head up, let the view breathe, and resist turning every open bend into a target. Stop once properly rather than half-stopping everywhere.