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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246 km from Eisleben Lutherstadt to Eisleben Lutherstadt, about 3 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of Collegiate Church, Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of and back through Collegiate Church. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 57 km of Luther's birthplace → Collegiate Church.
For about 66 km this is German Timber Frame Road Central Section, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Martin Luther was born in Eisleben on 10 November 1483, and by an odd twist of fate he died here too, in 1546, while on a visit to settle a dispute between the counts of Mansfeld. The house where he was born was rebuilt after a fire in the seventeenth century and became one of the first museums in Germany dedicated to a single person. Together with the house where he died and the sites in Wittenberg where he lived and taught, it forms the UNESCO site of the Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg, listed in 1996. The museum tells the story of Luther's family, his childhood and the beginning of the Reformation, and it has been extended with modern exhibitions.
Read the complete Luther's birthplace write-up.
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Luther's birthplace is where the day begins. Next is Collegiate Church.
High on a rock above Quedlinburg stands the Collegiate Church of St Servatius, a heavy Romanesque church that is one of the most important of its kind in Germany. The first church on the hill was connected to the Ottonian kings, and Henry the Fowler, the first king of the East Frankish realm in the early tenth century, was buried here. His widow Mathilda founded a convent of noblewomen on the site, which became powerful, with abbesses who were often relatives of the emperors and ran a small state of their own.
Read the complete Collegiate Church write-up.
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Collegiate Church comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of.
Goslar is a small city at the northern edge of the Harz, and it is hard to overstate how much money and power sat here in the Middle Ages. The Rammelsberg hill, just south of the town, held a vast body of silver, lead, copper and zinc ore, and mining went on for about a thousand years, until the mine closed in 1988. The Ottonian and Salian emperors built their palace in Goslar because the silver paid for it. The imperial palace, the Kaiserpfalz, still stands in a big, over-restored form on the edge of the old town. UNESCO listed the mine and the old town together in 1992, and in 2010 the Upper Harz water system was added to the same site.
Read the complete Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of write-up.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of. Next is back through Collegiate Church.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Collegiate Church write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Collegiate Church, late in the day. Next is Luther's birthplace.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Luther's birthplace write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Luther's birthplace. That is the ride.
Luther's birthplace → Collegiate Church is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Collegiate Church → Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of → back through Collegiate Church is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Collegiate Church → Luther's birthplace is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.