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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From Stockach it runs 176 km to Stockach; allow about 4 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Allensbach-Strandbad, Insel Werd, Weier I - III and Nussbaumersee. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
For about 20 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.
The ride follows Grand Tour of Switzerland for 20 km.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Allensbach-Strandbad.
Lake Constance does not do dramatic. It does soft: a huge sheet of water, a far shore that comes and goes with the haze, and little towns with tidy promenades that seem to have been tidied again while you were not looking. Allensbach's Strandbad is one of those spots, a lido on the Gnadensee, the western arm of the lake, with a swimming area, grass banks and a view across to the Reichenau island and the Swiss shore beyond.
Read the complete Allensbach-Strandbad write-up.
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Allensbach-Strandbad comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Insel Werd.
Where the Rhine leaves Lake Constance at Stein am Rhein, a group of small islands sits in the river, connected to the shore by a wooden footbridge, and on the largest, Werd, stands a small chapel surrounded by trees and water. It was here, in 759, that Saint Otmar, the first abbot of St Gallen, died in exile after falling foul of powerful local nobles, and the island has been a place of pilgrimage ever since. Long before Otmar, people lived here too: the islands and the surrounding shores are among the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, a World Heritage site, and excavations have found traces of settlements from the Neolithic onwards.
Read the complete Insel Werd write-up.
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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Insel Werd. Next is Weier I - III.
Just outside Thayngen, almost on the German border, a small wetland hides the remains of Neolithic villages that stood here more than five thousand years ago. The sites known as Weier I to III were built on the edge of a former lake or moor, now mostly filled in, and excavations revealed well-preserved timber houses, tools, pottery and food remains that give a detailed picture of early farming communities. They form part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though as with most such sites, there is little to see above ground today beyond the landscape itself.
Read the complete Weier I - III write-up.
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Weier I - III, about halfway. Next is Nussbaumersee.
Out in the Thurgau countryside, between Frauenfeld and the Rhine, a chain of small lakes lies in a glacial hollow: the Nussbaumersee, the Hüttwilersee and the Hasensee, with the wetland of the Seebachtal around them. It is a place of reeds and still water, where herons stand in the shallows and dragonflies hang over the surface. The Nussbaumersee is the biggest of them, a modest lake with a wooded shore, and a footpath circles it.
Read the complete Nussbaumersee write-up.
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Nussbaumersee sits at 81 km, about halfway. Next is back through Weier I - III.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weier I - III write-up.
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back through Weier I - III comes up about 107 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Insel Werd.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Insel Werd write-up.
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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Insel Werd. Next is back through Allensbach-Strandbad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Allensbach-Strandbad write-up.
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back through Allensbach-Strandbad, late in the day. Next is Bodman-Schachen / Löchle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bodman-Schachen / Löchle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 176 km.
Bodman-Schachen / Löchle → Allensbach-Strandbad is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Allensbach-Strandbad → Insel Werd is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Insel Werd → Weier I - III is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weier I - III → Nussbaumersee is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nussbaumersee → back through Weier I - III is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Weier I - III → back through Insel Werd is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Insel Werd → back through Allensbach-Strandbad is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Allensbach-Strandbad → Bodman-Schachen / Löchle is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.