Why this ride
A 247 km loop that starts and ends near Kiel, about 3 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of Rendsburg, Eutin and Lübeck.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Kiel · Canal Roads and Rendsburg Steel Loop + Kiel · Eutin, Lübeck Bay and Old Roads
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 247 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 41
- Journey
- Loop
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
Nortorf fuel gate → Rendsburg high bridge
41 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
Baltic Coast Scenic Road
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 40 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 40 km
- Named road
- Baltic Coast Scenic Road
Baltic Coast Scenic Road
For 15 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.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 15 km
- Named road
- Baltic Coast Scenic Road
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Kiel
Kiel is a city that faces the water in every direction. It sits at the head of the Kiel Fjord, a long inlet of the Baltic, and at the eastern end of the Kiel Canal, which cuts across the base of the Jutland peninsula to the North Sea and is the busiest artificial waterway in the world by ship traffic. Cargo ships, tankers and ferries pass in a line, and from the high bridges you can watch giant vessels slide past apparently at roof level. The canal was opened in 1895, and for its size and importance it deserves more visitors than it gets.
2. Rendsburg
3. Eutin
Eutin calls itself the Rose Town, and in summer you can see why, with rose beds in the market square, the park and the front gardens, but its better claim is a small, pale baroque palace on an island in a lake. The palace was the residence of the prince-bishops of Lübeck for several centuries, and it is surrounded by a moat and a landscape park that slopes down to the water of the Great Eutin Lake. In summer an open-air opera festival is staged in the palace gardens, with the lake as a backdrop, and it has done so for decades.
4. Lübeck
At the northern edge of the city, in the district around Stockelsdorf, the road leads to the Baltic coast, and the ride begins here, heading north-east through the forests and fields of Ostholstein towards Travemünde, Timmendorfer Strand and the sea.
5. Kiel
Return visit. Read the place description above.