Why this ride
A 183 km round trip from Hengstdal - roughly 3 h 07 in the saddle. The stops in between: Till, Xanten-CUT, Moers-Asberg and back through Xanten-CUT. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South and Moers-Asberg
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 183 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 07
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
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.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South
The Netherlands is famous for having no hills, which makes the ridge at Berg en Dal a small, comic exception. East of Nijmegen, the land rises in a line of wooded heights, shaped by the Ice Age, when a great glacier pushed up a mound of sand and gravel, and the highest point barely reaches a hundred metres. It looks modest on paper, but after the flat polders it feels like an alpine foothill, with beech and pine woods, steep little lanes, villas among the trees and views across the Waal valley into Germany. The name Berg en Dal means hill and valley, and the Dutch mean it.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South is where the day begins. Next is Till.
2. Till
The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.
Read the complete Till write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Till comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Xanten-CUT.
3. Xanten-CUT
Xanten is an old Roman town that still behaves like a small, cosy market town on the Lower Rhine, and right next to it lies one of the largest archaeological parks in Germany. Colonia Ulpia Traiana, CUT for short, was founded around AD 100 under the emperor Trajan, who gave it the rank of a colonia and his family name. At its height it was a walled city of several thousand people, the second most important Roman city in the province of Lower Germany after Cologne.
Read the complete Xanten-CUT write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Xanten-CUT. Next is Moers-Asberg.
4. Moers-Asberg
Asberg is a quiet district on the southern edge of Moers, on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, and beneath its houses and fields lies the Roman fort of Asciburgium, one of the earliest military bases on the Rhine frontier. It was founded around the time of the emperor Augustus or soon after, garrisoned by cavalry and auxiliary troops, and abandoned toward the end of the first century, when the Rhine shifted its course and moved away from the fort. The site is now part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site, and although there is little to see above ground, information boards and outlines help you imagine the scene.
Read the complete Moers-Asberg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Moers-Asberg, about halfway. Next is back through Xanten-CUT.
5. back through Xanten-CUT
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Xanten-CUT write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Xanten-CUT sits at 127 km, about halfway. Next is back through Till.
6. back through Till
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Till write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Till comes up about 156 km into the recorded legs. Next is Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South.
7. Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South closes the day.
Leg by leg
Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South to Till
Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South → Till is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till to Xanten-CUT
Till → Xanten-CUT is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xanten-CUT to Moers-Asberg
Xanten-CUT → Moers-Asberg is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moers-Asberg to back through Xanten-CUT
Moers-Asberg → back through Xanten-CUT is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xanten-CUT to back through Till
back through Xanten-CUT → back through Till is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Till to Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South
back through Till → Berg en Dal-De Holdeurn | South is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.