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 71 km round trip from Rapperswil - roughly 1 h 35 in the saddle. On the way it passes Rorenhaab, Robenhausen and back through Rorenhaab. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
17 km on Hurden Seefeld → Rorenhaab.
Lake Zurich has a narrow waist, and at the waist stands a long causeway called the Seedamm. It links Rapperswil on the north shore with the Pfaffikon side on the south, and the peninsula of Hurden sits at its northern end. The upper lake, the Obersee, lies to the east, a quieter, shallower basin with reed beds, while the main lake stretches away to the west. Behind it all, the Glarus Alps and the Churfirsten rise to the horizon on a clear day.
Read the complete Hurden Seefeld write-up.
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Hurden Seefeld is where the day begins. Next is Rorenhaab.
The winter of 1853 to 1854 was so dry that the water in Lake Zurich fell to an unusually low level, and at Obermeilen, on the eastern shore, villagers extending their land into the lake found rows of wooden piles sticking out of the mud, along with pottery, bone tools and stone axes. The antiquarian Ferdinand Keller studied the finds and concluded that they came from prehistoric villages built on platforms over the water, and his reports launched the pile dwelling craze that swept through Europe in the nineteenth century. Rorenhaab, at Obermeilen, is that very site, and it is part of the pile dwellings around the Alps listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2011.
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Rorenhaab comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Robenhausen write-up.
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about 36 km into the recorded legs you reach Robenhausen. Next is back through Rorenhaab.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rorenhaab write-up.
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back through Rorenhaab, late in the day. Next is Hurden Seefeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hurden Seefeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hurden Seefeld. That is the ride.
Hurden Seefeld → Rorenhaab is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rorenhaab → Robenhausen is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Robenhausen → back through Rorenhaab is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rorenhaab → Hurden Seefeld is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.