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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Reichenau it runs 243 km to Reichenau; allow about 4 h 12 of riding. The stops in between: Nussbaumersee, Storen-Wildsberg, Hurden Rosshorn and back through Storen-Wildsberg. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It stays on the island.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 28 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Reichenau is a flat, green island in the Untersee, the western arm of Lake Constance, connected to the mainland by a long causeway lined with poplars. A wandering bishop named Pirmin founded the monastery here in 724, and over the next centuries it became one of the great centres of learning and art in Europe, famous for its scriptorium and its illuminated manuscripts. The island's three Romanesque churches survive, and UNESCO listed the whole as a World Heritage Site in 2000.
Read the complete Monastic Island of Reichenau write-up.
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Monastic Island of Reichenau is where the day begins. 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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Nussbaumersee comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Storen-Wildsberg.
The Greifensee lies just east of Zurich, a shallow, quiet lake of about six kilometres in length, framed by reeds, meadows and the gentle hills of the Zurich Oberland. Its shores are largely protected, and there is no road running right along the water, which keeps it remarkably calm for a lake so close to Switzerland's biggest city. At Storen-Wildsberg near the village of Greifensee, the remains of a prehistoric settlement lie under the water and in the shoreline sediments, one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As with all of them, it is the ground itself that is protected; there is nothing to see except the reeds and the water.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Storen-Wildsberg. Next is Hurden Rosshorn.
Where Lake Zurich narrows to a waist between Rapperswil and Hurden, a low peninsula runs out from the Schwyz shore, and at its tip, the Rosshorn, the remains of prehistoric lakeside villages lie beneath the shallow water. People lived here in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, in houses built on wooden piles, and they also built some of the earliest known bridges across the narrows. The site is one of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011, a group of sites that has given archaeologists a remarkably detailed view of everyday life thousands of years ago, preserved in the mud of lakes and moors.
Read the complete Hurden Rosshorn write-up.
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Hurden Rosshorn, about halfway. Next is back through Storen-Wildsberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Storen-Wildsberg sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Nussbaumersee.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nussbaumersee write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Nussbaumersee comes up about 198 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monastic Island of Reichenau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monastic Island of Reichenau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Monastic Island of Reichenau closes the day.
Monastic Island of Reichenau → Nussbaumersee is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nussbaumersee → Storen-Wildsberg is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Storen-Wildsberg → Hurden Rosshorn is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hurden Rosshorn → back through Storen-Wildsberg is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Storen-Wildsberg → back through Nussbaumersee is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nussbaumersee → Monastic Island of Reichenau is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.