Tegernsee and Sudelfeld Pass · short arc

Scenic road chapters

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Munich / Bavarian Alps

   South of Ingolstadt on the Danube plain, the ground is so flat that the horizon becomes the main landscape feature. This stop lies between Manching and Ingolstadt, in a region once covered by the great Donaumoos, a peat bog drained in the eighteenth century under the Bavarian elector Karl Theodor, who wanted farmland and settlers. The road network that crosses the old moor is neat, straight and carefully ditch-lined, with fields of maize, wheat and sugar beet standing behind.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Munich / Bavarian Alps is where the day begins. Next is Food stop near Affing.

2. 2. Food stop near Affing

   Planning note

   Food stop near Affing is where this day stops to eat. Next is Photo stop in Peißenberg.

3. 3. Photo stop in Peißenberg

   Peißenberg owes its existence to coal. For more than a century a deep mine worked the seams of pitch coal under the town, and when it closed in 1971 the place had to reinvent itself. You can still see traces of the mining past in the old shaft buildings and a small museum, but the modern town is a pleasant, unpretentious market centre in the rolling foothills between the Ammersee and the Alps.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   This is where the road stops climbing. Next is Tegernsee and Sudelfeld Pass checkpoint 8.

4. 4. Grünwald

   It is a quiet, wealthy area of villas and forests, and for riders coming back from the Tegernsee and the Sudelfeld it is a pleasant, low-key finish, close enough to the city but still among trees.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Tegernsee and Sudelfeld Pass checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is High point near Miesbach.

5. 5. High point near Miesbach

   In 1882, a wire strung on poles between Miesbach and Munich carried electricity over a distance of fifty-seven kilometres, one of the first long-distance power transmissions in history, a demonstration organised by the engineer Oskar von Miller and the French physicist Marcel Deprez. It powered a small pump driving an artificial waterfall at an exhibition in Munich. The achievement helped launch the age of electricity, and Oskar von Miller went on to found the Deutsches Museum.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   High point near Miesbach tops the climb. Next is Scenic stretch in Bruckmühl.

6. 6. Scenic stretch in Bruckmühl

   The Mangfall flows out of the Tegernsee and winds north through a deep, wooded valley before turning east towards Rosenheim and the Inn, and Bruckmühl sits on its banks, a modest industrial town with a church, a few factories and modern homes. The valley's springs supply a large part of Munich's drinking water, which is famously pure, and the forests along the river are protected to keep it that way.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   The route ends here after 328 km.