Main Wall Area 1 and National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Main Wall Area 1

   The Danevirke is the longest and most important archaeological monument in northern Europe, a network of earthworks and walls that stretches across the neck of the Jutland peninsula, and the Main Wall is its backbone. At this spot, close to the village of Dannewerk near Schleswig, you are standing on a grassy ridge that looks like nothing much until someone tells you it was built to stop armies. It runs for kilometres through fields and woods, and over a stretch of centuries it was raised, repaired and extended by Danish kings, from the early Viking age into the twelfth century.

   Read the complete Main Wall Area 1 write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Main Wall Area 1 is where the day begins. Next is National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstei.

2. 2. National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen

   Here the Wadden Sea comes right up against the dyke. This is the coast of the Wurster Nordseeküste, between the Weser and Elbe estuaries, a country of low sea walls, drained farmland and wide skies, and the mudflats outside the dyke are part of the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park. Together with the Dutch and Danish parts of the Wadden Sea, the area is a UNESCO World Heritage site, valued above all for the sheer scale of the tidal flats and the millions of birds that pass through on migration. When the tide goes out, it goes a very long way.

   Read the complete National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   201 km in you reach National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen. Next is back through National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstei.

3. 3. Back to Main Wall Area 1

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete Main Wall Area 1 write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   back through National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstei, late in the day. Next is Main Wall Area 1.

4. 4. Main Wall Area 1

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete Main Wall Area 1 write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Back at Main Wall Area 1. That is the ride.