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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222 km from Sankt Gallen to Sankt Gallen, about 4 h 32 of riding. On the way it passes Konstanz-Hinterhausen, Wangen-Hinterhorn, Bodman-Schachen / Löchle and back through Wangen-Hinterhorn. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
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.
For about 39 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
In the centre of St Gallen, a city in north-eastern Switzerland between Lake Constance and the Appenzell hills, the twin towers of a baroque cathedral rise above a wide square, and beside them stands one of the oldest and most beautiful libraries in the world. The Abbey of St Gall was founded in the eighth century on the site where the Irish monk Gallus had settled in the early seventh century, and it became one of the great centres of learning in medieval Europe. The abbey precinct was listed by UNESCO in 1983.
Read the complete Abbey of St Gall write-up.
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Abbey of St Gall is where the day begins. Next is Konstanz-Hinterhausen.
There is nothing to see at Konstanz-Hinterhausen, and that is precisely the point. Below the surface of Lake Constance, along the shore near the city, lie the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings: wooden posts, floors, pottery and food remains preserved in the mud for thousands of years. They are part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, a World Heritage site that spans six countries and over a hundred locations. Archaeologists dive to study them, but the rest of us have to make do with the view of the lake and a bit of imagination.
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Konstanz-Hinterhausen comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wangen-Hinterhorn.
When the water of the Untersee, the western arm of Lake Constance, was unusually low in the winter of 1853 to 1854, people around the Swiss and German shores noticed wooden posts sticking out of the mud. They were the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, villages built on the lakeshore thousands of years ago, and the find sparked a wave of research and a craze for lake-dwelling romance across Europe. Wangen, on the German shore of the Untersee, was one of the first sites studied, and Wangen-Hinterhorn belongs to the World Heritage inscription for prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though there is nothing to see above the water.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Wangen-Hinterhorn. Next is Bodman-Schachen / Löchle.
Lake Constance takes its German name, Bodensee, from this village. Bodman, at the western tip of the Überlinger See arm of the lake, was the site of a royal palace in the early Middle Ages, and the name of the place spread to the water. Below the village, in the shallows at Schachen and Löchle, lie the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, part of the transnational World Heritage Site of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, inscribed in 2011.
Read the complete Bodman-Schachen / Löchle write-up.
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Bodman-Schachen / Löchle, about halfway. Next is back through Wangen-Hinterhorn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wangen-Hinterhorn write-up.
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back through Wangen-Hinterhorn sits at 123 km, about halfway. Next is back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Konstanz-Hinterhausen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen comes up about 178 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abbey of St Gall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abbey of St Gall write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abbey of St Gall closes the day.
Abbey of St Gall → Konstanz-Hinterhausen is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Konstanz-Hinterhausen → Wangen-Hinterhorn is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wangen-Hinterhorn → Bodman-Schachen / Löchle is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bodman-Schachen / Löchle → back through Wangen-Hinterhorn is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wangen-Hinterhorn → back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen → Abbey of St Gall is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.