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 260 km round trip from Wachtberg - roughly 3 h 45 in the saddle. It goes by way of Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at, Dormagen, Krefeld-Gellep and back through Dormagen. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 30 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Professorenweg, the Professors' Way, was a path where Bonn's university teachers walked in the afternoons, and the name still suggests thoughtful strolling. It runs along the high ground of the southern Kottenforst, in the hills of Wachtberg, above the Rhine valley, and the area has been a favourite for walkers since the days when Bonn was a quiet university town on the river rather than a capital.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 2 write-up.
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Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 2 is where the day begins. Next is Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at.
Clemens August of Bavaria, prince-elector and archbishop of Cologne in the eighteenth century, loved two things above all: hunting with falcons and building in the latest style. At Brühl, just south of Cologne, he created two of the finest rococo buildings in Germany. Augustusburg Palace, his summer residence, has a staircase designed by Balthasar Neumann that is one of the masterpieces of the period, a whirl of marble, stucco and frescoes, and a formal French garden that stretches toward the forest. Falkenlust, a smaller hunting lodge at the end of a long avenue, was built for falconry, with a delightful interior decorated with tiles and lacquerwork. The two castles were listed by UNESCO in 1984.
Read the complete Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at write-up.
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Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dormagen.
Dormagen is not the sort of place that ends up on postcards, and it does not try to be. It is a working town of some sixty thousand on the left bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf, dominated on its northern side by a huge chemical park whose pipes and stacks glow at night. Yet the name itself comes from Roman times: Durnomagus was a fort on the Lower German Limes, the Rhine frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and a cavalry unit was stationed here to patrol the river and the road along it.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Dormagen. Next is Krefeld-Gellep.
Most people pass Krefeld-Gellep without a second thought, because the view is dominated by the harbour of Uerdingen, chemical works and Rhine barges. Yet this is one of the most important Roman and early medieval sites on the Lower Rhine. The Roman fort here was called Gelduba, and it belongs to the Lower German Limes, the frontier along the river that UNESCO recognised in 2021. Tacitus mentions Gelduba in his account of the Batavian revolt of 69 and 70 AD, when legions and rebels fought around the camp, and archaeologists have found traces of that violence in the ground.
Read the complete Krefeld-Gellep write-up.
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Krefeld-Gellep, about halfway. Next is back through Dormagen.
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Read the complete Dormagen write-up.
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back through Dormagen sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at.
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Read the complete Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at write-up.
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back through Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at comes up about 214 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 2 closes the day.
Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 2 → Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at → Dormagen is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dormagen → Krefeld-Gellep is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Krefeld-Gellep → back through Dormagen is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dormagen → back through Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at → Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 2 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.