CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Reichenau it runs 362 km to Reichenau; allow about 6 h 22 of riding. The stops in between: Bleiche 2-3, Konstanz-Hinterhausen, Egelsee and Robenhausen. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
For 51 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.
This part of the ride is 37 km of Grand Tour of Switzerland.
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 Bleiche 2-3.
Arbon sits on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, in the canton of Thurgau, and just outside the town, on land that was once lake shore, lies one of the most remarkable prehistoric sites in Europe. At Arbon-Bleiche, archaeologists excavated a Neolithic village of wooden houses built on the edge of the lake around 3400 BC. Because the wood was preserved in waterlogged ground, tree rings allowed the village to be dated almost to the year: it was built, lived in for about fifteen years and then destroyed by fire. The finds, from pottery and tools to textiles and food remains, gave a detailed picture of how these early farmers lived, and Arbon counts among the Swiss sites in the Alpine pile-dwelling inscription of 2011. There is nothing to see at the site itself, which is now under buildings and fields; the finds are displayed in the Thurgau archaeological museum in Frauenfeld.
Read the complete Bleiche 2-3 write-up.
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Bleiche 2-3 comes up 39 km in. Next is Konstanz-Hinterhausen.
There is nothing to see at Konstanz-Hinterhausen, and that is precisely the point. Below the surface of Lake Constance, along the shore near the city, lie the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings: wooden posts, floors, pottery and food remains preserved in the mud for thousands of years. They are part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, a World Heritage site that spans six countries and over a hundred locations. Archaeologists dive to study them, but the rest of us have to make do with the view of the lake and a bit of imagination.
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78 km in you reach Konstanz-Hinterhausen. Next is Egelsee.
There is almost nothing to see at the Egelsee, and that is part of its charm. It is a small, reed-fringed bog lake in the rolling Thurgau countryside between Gachnang and Frauenfeld, and under its peat and mud lie the remains of a Neolithic lakeside settlement, timber piles and floor layers preserved for thousands of years because air never reached them. It is one of the many sites that make up the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps on the UNESCO list, and unlike the reconstructed villages you find elsewhere, this one has been left in the ground on purpose. Archaeologists consider the soggy earth the best museum there is.
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Egelsee, about halfway. Next is Robenhausen.
In 1858 a local man named Jakob Messikommer began digging in the peat bog at Robenhausen, on the southern end of the Pfäffikersee in the Zurich Oberland, and he spent decades uncovering a remarkably rich Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement. His finds, from stone axes to woven textiles and charred bread, travelled to museums around the world and helped make Swiss lake dwellings famous. Today Robenhausen is one of the components of the UNESCO Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, though what remains lies underground in a protected wetland.
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Robenhausen sits at 157 km, about halfway. Next is back through Egelsee.
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back through Egelsee comes up 196 km in. Next is back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen.
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235 km in you reach back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen. Next is back through Bleiche 2-3.
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back through Bleiche 2-3, late in the day. Next is Hornstaad-Hörnle.
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The route ends here after 362 km.
Hornstaad-Hörnle → Bleiche 2-3 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bleiche 2-3 → Konstanz-Hinterhausen is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Konstanz-Hinterhausen → Egelsee is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Egelsee → Robenhausen is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Robenhausen → back through Egelsee is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Egelsee → back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Konstanz-Hinterhausen → back through Bleiche 2-3 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bleiche 2-3 → Hornstaad-Hörnle is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.