Why this ride
A 63 km round trip from Hollingstedt - roughly 1 h 04 in the saddle.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstei and East Wall Area 1A to 1C
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 63 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 04
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Crooked Wall Area 4
Here the ground is flat, wet and green, and a long, low bank runs across it for no obvious reason. The bank is the Krummwall, the Crooked Wall, one of the oldest sections of the Danevirke, the great system of ramparts that the Danes built across the neck of the Jutland peninsula against their southern neighbours. The first banks go back to the early Middle Ages, and the line was added to and rebuilt for centuries, in timber, earth and brick, until the nineteenth century. UNESCO recognised the Danevirke, together with the Viking town of Hedeby, in 2018.
Read the complete Crooked Wall Area 4 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Crooked Wall Area 4 comes up about 0 km into the recorded legs. Next is East Wall Area 1A to 1C.
2. East Wall Area 1A to 1C
When the Vikings built their trading town of Hedeby at the head of the Schlei, a long narrow inlet of the Baltic, they chose a spot with a short portage to the North Sea rivers, making it one of the great crossroads of Northern Europe. To protect the isthmus between the two seas, the Danes built a long earthwork called the Danevirke, begun in the eighth century and strengthened for centuries after, with a rampart, a ditch and in places a brick wall added in the twelfth century by King Valdemar. Hedeby and the Danevirke are together a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The East Wall, the Ostwall, is the eastern arm of the system, running through the countryside near Kosel above the Schlei.
Read the complete East Wall Area 1A to 1C write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach East Wall Area 1A to 1C. Next is back through Crooked Wall Area 4.
3. back through Crooked Wall Area 4
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Crooked Wall Area 4 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Crooked Wall Area 4, late in the day. Next is National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstei.
Leg by leg
Crooked Wall Area 4 to East Wall Area 1A to 1C
Crooked Wall Area 4 → East Wall Area 1A to 1C is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
East Wall Area 1A to 1C to back through Crooked Wall Area 4
East Wall Area 1A to 1C → back through Crooked Wall Area 4 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.