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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174 km from Maulbronn to Maulbronn, about 2 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung, Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim and back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The monks of Maulbronn did not just build a monastery. They built a waterworks. In the twelfth century the Cistercians who settled in this wooded fold of the Stromberg hills dammed the streams, dug channels and created a chain of ponds to supply the monastery with fish, to power mills and to keep the buildings dry. Billensbach Pond, a few hundred metres from the abbey walls, is one of that series of lakes, and a reminder that the beauty of the place is the product of planning.
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Billensbacher 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.
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Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung comes up about 42 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.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-. 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, late in the day. Next is Billensbacher Pond.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Billensbacher Pond write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Billensbacher Pond. That is the ride.
Billensbacher Pond → Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 42 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- → 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 → Billensbacher Pond is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.