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.
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.
A 239 km round trip from Maulbronn - roughly 3 h 57 in the saddle. On the way it passes Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung, Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim, Watchtowers WP 12/39 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim. The line favours views over speed.
Abbot Gerhard is one of those figures who appear in a local pond name and then disappear back into the archive, and there is no need to invent a biography for him. What matters is the office. A Cistercian abbot was the head of a self-governing community of monks, elected by them, responsible for their souls and their accounts, and Maulbronn's abbots were notable managers, who took on the work of draining marshes, laying out ponds and building mills. A pond named for one of them is a small monument to the idea that holiness and good drainage could go together.
Read the complete Abt-Gerhard-Pond write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abt-Gerhard-Pond is where the day begins. Next is Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung.
In 1927, on a hillside overlooking Stuttgart, a group of the most radical architects in Europe built an entire housing estate in a few months as an exhibition of what modern living could look like. The Weissenhof Estate, organised by the Deutscher Werkbund under the direction of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, brought together Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P. Oud and others, and their flat-roofed, white-walled houses became a manifesto for the International Style.
Read the complete Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-.
Welzheim sits up in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, a rolling upland of spruce, beech, deep stream valleys and old sawmills east of Stuttgart, and the Romans chose it for the same reason the forest still feels remote today: it was the edge. The Upper German-Raetian Limes ran dead straight through these woods, and Welzheim had not one fort but two, an east and a west fort, with a civilian settlement of traders, craftsmen and soldiers' families packed around them. The east fort has a reconstructed gate and a small archaeological park that gives you a good sense of scale, and the whole frontier line is part of a UNESCO site.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/39.
Iggingen is a small village on the plateau above the Rems valley, a few kilometres east of Schwäbisch Gmünd, and like many villages in this part of Württemberg it has a Roman frontier running through its fields. The site labelled Watchtower WP 12/39 sits on the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the edge of Roman Raetia, and from here the line runs eastwards towards Aalen, the largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps, now home to an excellent Limes museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/39 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 12/39, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is Abt-Gerhard-Pond.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abt-Gerhard-Pond write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Abt-Gerhard-Pond closes the day.
Abt-Gerhard-Pond → Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung → Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- → Watchtowers WP 12/39 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/39 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- → back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung → Abt-Gerhard-Pond is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.