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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A 334 km round trip from Walldürn - roughly 4 h 55 in the saddle. On the way it passes Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens, Bad Kissingen and back through Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 62 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Walldürn sits on the high, rolling plateau where the Odenwald meets the Bauland, a gentle landscape of fields, woods and small towns in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg. The Romans came here in the second century AD, when the Upper German Limes was pushed forward to a new line running almost straight through the countryside, and they built a small fort at Walldürn with a civil settlement beside it, where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. The remains of a bath house have been excavated and conserved, and the line of the frontier, with its watchtowers and palisade, runs nearby. The Upper German-Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, became a UNESCO site in 2005.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is where the day begins. Next is Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens.
Balthasar Neumann was a military engineer before he was an architect, and it shows in the Würzburg Residence, a palace so confidently engineered that its great staircase vault, with no central support, was said to be impossible. It was built for the prince-bishops of Würzburg in the early eighteenth century, with the main construction running from about 1720 to the mid-1740s. The ceiling above the stairs carries a fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, which is among the largest in the world and depicts the four continents. UNESCO listed the whole ensemble in 1981, court gardens included.
Read the complete Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bad Kissingen.
Bad Kissingen is a spa town in the northern corner of Bavaria, in the valley of the Franconian Saale, between the Rhön hills and the Spessart. People have taken the waters here since the Middle Ages, and in the nineteenth century the town became one of the great resorts of Europe, visited by Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, by tsars and kings, and by Bismarck, who drafted his famous Kissinger Diktat in 1877. In 2021 UNESCO added the town to its list of the Great Spa Towns of Europe, alongside Baden-Baden, Bath, Karlsbad and others.
Read the complete Bad Kissingen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 168 km into the recorded legs you reach Bad Kissingen. Next is back through Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn → Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens → Bad Kissingen is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bad Kissingen → back through Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens → Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.