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 401 km round trip from Salzburg - roughly 6 h 09 in the saddle. The stops in between: Herrenchiemsee New Palace, Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus and back through Herrenchiemsee New Palace. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Austria into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 72 km of Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Herrenchiemsee New Palace.
Salzburg's old town is a stage set that happens to be real. Squeezed between the river Salzach and the steep rock of the Mönchsberg, it packs baroque domes, church towers and tall merchants' houses into a few dense streets, while the white walls of Hohensalzburg fortress sit high above everything like a lid on a jewellery box. The city has around a hundred and fifty thousand people, yet the centre still feels small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is where the day begins. Next is Herrenchiemsee New Palace.
King Ludwig II wanted to build Versailles on an island, and for the most part he did. The New Palace on Herrenchiemsee, the largest island in the Chiemsee, is his answer to Louis XIV, a Bavarian homage to the French sun king that took years to build and was never finished. Ludwig spent barely ten days there in total. The money ran out, the king's reputation among his ministers fell, and in 1886 he was dead in Lake Starnberg under circumstances people still argue about.
Read the complete Herrenchiemsee New Palace write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Herrenchiemsee New Palace comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus.
Künzing sits on the Danube in Lower Bavaria, in a broad, fertile plain known as the Gäuboden, and in Roman times it was a place with a name, Quintana. The Romans built a fort here in the second century, one of the posts on the river frontier of the province of Raetia, and a civilian settlement, a vicus, grew up beside it, with houses, workshops and even an amphitheatre. The Danube Limes in Germany, Austria and Slovakia was listed by UNESCO in 2021, and Künzing is one of the places where it is easiest to grasp what daily life along the frontier was like.
Read the complete Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 200 km into the recorded legs you reach Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus. Next is back through Herrenchiemsee New Palace.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Herrenchiemsee New Palace write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Herrenchiemsee New Palace, late in the day. Next is Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg. That is the ride.
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg → Herrenchiemsee New Palace is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Herrenchiemsee New Palace → Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus is 128 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus → back through Herrenchiemsee New Palace is 128 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Herrenchiemsee New Palace → Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.