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 Hüttwilen it runs 267 km to Hüttwilen; allow about 5 h 27 of riding. The stops in between: Abbey of St Gall, Schreckensee and back through Abbey of St Gall. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Switzerland into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 70 km of Nussbaumersee → Abbey of St Gall.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Abbey of St Gall.
In the centre of St Gallen, a city in north-eastern Switzerland between Lake Constance and the Appenzell hills, the twin towers of a baroque cathedral rise above a wide square, and beside them stands one of the oldest and most beautiful libraries in the world. The Abbey of St Gall was founded in the eighth century on the site where the Irish monk Gallus had settled in the early seventh century, and it became one of the great centres of learning in medieval Europe. The abbey precinct was listed by UNESCO in 1983.
Read the complete Abbey of St Gall write-up.
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Abbey of St Gall comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Schreckensee.
The Schreckensee, the lake of terror, is a disappointingly peaceful place for such a dramatic name. It is a small kettle lake in the moraine country of Upper Swabia, between Ravensburg and Aulendorf, left behind when a block of glacial ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age. Its shores, now partly bog and reed bed, hide the remains of prehistoric settlements, and it is one of the German sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As at most of these sites, nothing is visible on the surface; the timbers and household waste lie preserved underwater and in the peat, waiting for future archaeologists.
Read the complete Schreckensee write-up.
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about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach Schreckensee. Next is back through Abbey of St Gall.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abbey of St Gall write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abbey of St Gall, late in the day. Next is 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 at Nussbaumersee. That is the ride.
Nussbaumersee → Abbey of St Gall is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abbey of St Gall → Schreckensee is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Schreckensee → back through Abbey of St Gall is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Abbey of St Gall → Nussbaumersee is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.