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 170 km round trip from Maulbronn - roughly 2 h 48 in the saddle. On the way it passes Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung, Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim and back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung. The line favours views over speed.
Hermann Hesse ran away from Maulbronn after seven months. He was fourteen, a pupil at the Protestant seminary housed in the old monastery, and one day in 1892 he walked out and was found a day later in a field, cold and hungry. He later turned the experience into his novel Beneath the Wheel, and the monastery has not forgotten. The seminary buildings are still a school, and the cloister is among the best-preserved medieval monasteries in Germany, listed by UNESCO since 1993. Johannes Kepler and the poet Friedrich Hölderlin also studied here, which tells you the standard.
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Hochenacker 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 40 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.
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about 85 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 Hochenacker Pond.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hochenacker Pond write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hochenacker Pond. That is the ride.
Hochenacker Pond → Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 40 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 → Hochenacker Pond is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.