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 Reichenau it runs 336 km to Reichenau; allow about 4 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Schreckensee, Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura and back through Schreckensee. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Hornstaad-Hörnle → Schreckensee for 91 km.
On the Höri peninsula, the long finger of land that pokes into the Untersee arm of Lake Constance, the shallow water off the point of Hornstaad hides the remains of a village burned some six thousand years ago. Hornstaad-Hörnle is one of the most important Neolithic sites in the region: the settlement was destroyed by fire, and the charred remains, sealed in lake mud, preserved an extraordinary record of daily life, including food, textiles, tools and house timbers, which dendrochronology has dated with great precision. It is part of the World Heritage inscription of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, and finds from the site are displayed in museums around the lake.
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Hornstaad-Hörnle is where the day begins. Next is Schreckensee.
The Schreckensee, the lake of terror, is a disappointingly peaceful place for such a dramatic name. It is a small kettle lake in the moraine country of Upper Swabia, between Ravensburg and Aulendorf, left behind when a block of glacial ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age. Its shores, now partly bog and reed bed, hide the remains of prehistoric settlements, and it is one of the German sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As at most of these sites, nothing is visible on the surface; the timbers and household waste lie preserved underwater and in the peat, waiting for future archaeologists.
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Schreckensee comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura.
Forty thousand years ago, someone sitting in a cave above the Ach valley carved a tiny woman out of mammoth ivory, and someone else made a flute from the wing bone of a griffon vulture. Both were found in the Hohle Fels near Schelklingen, a few kilometres from where you are standing, and they rank among the oldest figurative art and musical instruments ever found. The caves of the Ach and Lone valleys were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2017 as the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura, and they changed how archaeologists think about the first modern humans in Europe.
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about 168 km into the recorded legs you reach Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura. Next is back through Schreckensee.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Schreckensee write-up.
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back through Schreckensee, late in the day. Next is Hornstaad-Hörnle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hornstaad-Hörnle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hornstaad-Hörnle. That is the ride.
Hornstaad-Hörnle → Schreckensee is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schreckensee → Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura → back through Schreckensee is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Schreckensee → Hornstaad-Hörnle is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.