CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Garmisch-Partenkirchen it runs 482 km to Garmisch-Partenkirchen; allow about 7 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria:, Rose Island, Unfriedshausen and Water Management System of Augsburg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,600 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The ride follows German Alpine Road for 42 km.
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34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
This is one of the few royal residences in Europe that you cannot reach by any road, and King Ludwig II of Bavaria would have liked it that way. The King's House on Schachen stands on a high alpine meadow at about 1,866 metres in the Wetterstein mountains, south of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, below the jagged walls of the range that culminates in the Zugspitze. Ludwig had it built between 1869 and 1872 as a mountain retreat, and from the outside it looks like a modest Swiss chalet. Inside, upstairs, is a fantasy: the Turkish Hall, a room of blue, gold and red, with a fountain, peacock-feather fans, divans and stained glass, where the king liked to celebrate his birthday dressed in oriental costume while his servants smoked hookahs.
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King's House on Schachen is where the day begins. Next is The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria:.
Neuschwanstein is the castle that everybody has seen before they arrive, and it is almost impossible to see it freshly. Ludwig II, the king of Bavaria, had it built from 1869 as a private retreat in the style of a medieval knight's castle, with towers, turrets and rooms painted with scenes from the operas of Wagner, whom he adored. It stands on a rocky spur above the Pöllat gorge, with the Alpsee lake and the plain below. Ludwig lived in it only a few months before he was declared unfit to rule and died in mysterious circumstances in Lake Starnberg in June 1886, at the age of forty. The castle was opened to the public within weeks.
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The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: comes up 51 km in. Next is Rose Island.
Lake Starnberg, south-west of Munich, is the lake where Bavaria's Fairy Tale King met his end. Ludwig II drowned in its waters near Berg in 1886, in circumstances that are still debated, and a cross stands in the lake where his body was found. On the opposite shore, near Feldafing, lies the small Roseninsel, or Rose Island, the only island in the lake. Ludwig's father Maximilian II had a little villa built there, surrounded by a rose garden, and Ludwig used it as a retreat, sometimes meeting his cousin, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, who spent her childhood at nearby Possenhofen.
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102 km in you reach Rose Island. Next is Unfriedshausen.
Unfriedshausen is a hamlet in the rolling farmland west of the Ammersee, part of the municipality of Geltendorf in the Landsberg district of Bavaria, and if you have never heard of it, you are in good company. This is the gentle, prosperous countryside between Munich and Augsburg, a patchwork of fields, meadows, spruce woods, onion-domed churches and farmhouses with balconies full of geraniums, and it is the kind of place where the main event of the day might be a tractor crossing the road.
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Unfriedshausen, about halfway. Next is Water Management System of Augsburg.
Augsburg was a Roman town, a medieval free imperial city and the home of the fabulously rich Fugger banking family, but the thing that held it all together was water. Over the centuries, the city built an intricate network of canals fed by the Lech and Wertach rivers, water towers, pumping stations and fountains, supplying clean drinking water to the citizens and power to mills and workshops. The system was so advanced that UNESCO inscribed it in 2019, recognising twenty-two sites, from the water towers at the Red Gate, dating back to the fifteenth century, to the great Renaissance fountains dedicated to Augustus, Mercury and Hercules on the main street.
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Water Management System of Augsburg sits at 204 km, about halfway. Next is back through Unfriedshausen.
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back through Unfriedshausen comes up 255 km in. Next is back through Rose Island.
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306 km in you reach back through Rose Island. Next is back through The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria:.
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back through The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria:, late in the day. Next is King's House on Schachen.
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The route ends here after 482 km.
King's House on Schachen → The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: → Rose Island is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Rose Island → Unfriedshausen is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Unfriedshausen → Water Management System of Augsburg is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Water Management System of Augsburg → back through Unfriedshausen is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Unfriedshausen → back through Rose Island is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rose Island → back through The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: → King's House on Schachen is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.