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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310 km from Baden-Baden to Baden-Baden, about 4 h 14 of riding. It goes by way of Strasbourg, La place forte de Neuf-Brisach and back through Strasbourg. It crosses from Germany into France - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Strasbourg → La place forte de Neuf-Brisach for 91 km.
Baden-Baden is so nice they named it twice, as the old joke goes, though the doubling actually comes from distinguishing it from other places called Baden. Romans soaked in its hot springs, and the remains of their baths lie under the old town, but the town's golden age came in the nineteenth century, when European royalty, aristocrats, writers and gamblers flocked here to take the waters, stroll the avenues and lose fortunes at the casino. Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Brahms all spent time here. Baden-Baden is one of the eleven Great Spa Towns of Europe, listed together by UNESCO in 2021.
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Baden-Baden is where the day begins. Next is Strasbourg.
Strasbourg sits where the Rhine, France and Germany come together, and the city has been passed back and forth between them for centuries. It was a free imperial city, then French from 1681, German from 1871 to 1918, French again, German again in the Second World War, and French since 1944. The history is written into the city, in the half-timbered houses of the Petite France quarter with their steep roofs, in the German-built Neustadt and the Palais du Rhin, in the language, Alsatian, which is a Germanic dialect still spoken by older residents, and in the food, with sauerkraut, tarte flambée and Riesling. Today the city is also the seat of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament.
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Strasbourg comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. Next is La place forte de Neuf-Brisach.
After the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, France had to give the fortress of Breisach, on the right bank of the Rhine, back to the Habsburgs, and Louis XIV needed a new stronghold to guard the river. His engineer Vauban designed it from scratch on an empty plain on the left bank: Neuf-Brisach, a perfect octagon of walls, bastions and moats, with a grid of streets inside and a large central square with a church and a parade ground. Built between 1698 and the early eighteenth century, it was Vauban's last great work and is often considered his masterpiece. It is one of the twelve groups of Fortifications of Vauban, listed by UNESCO in 2008.
Read the complete La place forte de Neuf-Brisach write-up.
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about 157 km into the recorded legs you reach La place forte de Neuf-Brisach. Next is back through Strasbourg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Strasbourg write-up.
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back through Strasbourg, late in the day. Next is Baden-Baden.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Baden-Baden write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Baden-Baden. That is the ride.
Baden-Baden → Strasbourg is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Strasbourg → La place forte de Neuf-Brisach is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
La place forte de Neuf-Brisach → back through Strasbourg is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Strasbourg → Baden-Baden is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.