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 112 km round trip from Überlingen - roughly 2 h 32 in the saddle. On the way it passes Hornstaad-Hörnle, Nussbaumersee and back through Hornstaad-Hörnle. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
For about 32 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.
25 km on Grand Tour of Switzerland.
The Bodanrueck is a wooded peninsula that sticks out into the western end of Lake Constance, between the Uberlinger See and the Zeller See, and Litzelstetten is a small village on its southern side, close to the city of Konstanz. The Krahenhorn is a little promontory on the shore, and the whole area is an easy, gentle mix of orchards, forest, reeds and quiet beaches. Mainau Island, the flower island, lies just off the coast, with its palm trees and rhododendrons.
Read the complete Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 write-up.
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Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 is where the day begins. Next is Hornstaad-Hörnle.
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.
Read the complete Hornstaad-Hörnle write-up.
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Hornstaad-Hörnle comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nussbaumersee.
Out in the Thurgau countryside, between Frauenfeld and the Rhine, a chain of small lakes lies in a glacial hollow: the Nussbaumersee, the Hüttwilersee and the Hasensee, with the wetland of the Seebachtal around them. It is a place of reeds and still water, where herons stand in the shallows and dragonflies hang over the surface. The Nussbaumersee is the biggest of them, a modest lake with a wooded shore, and a footpath circles it.
Read the complete Nussbaumersee write-up.
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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Nussbaumersee. Next is back through 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 through Hornstaad-Hörnle, late in the day. Next is Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32. That is the ride.
Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 → Hornstaad-Hörnle is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hornstaad-Hörnle → Nussbaumersee is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nussbaumersee → back through Hornstaad-Hörnle is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hornstaad-Hörnle → Litzelstetten-Krähenhorn 32 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.