Why this ride
A 50 km round trip from Schleswig - roughly 55 min in the saddle. The stops in between: Crooked Wall Area 4 and back through Crooked Wall Area 4. The coast is the point of it.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Offshore Work and National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstei
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 50 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 55 min
- 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. Offshore Work
The word on the sign suggests a ship, but the offshore work here is a piece of earthwork, an outlying defence belonging to the old Danevirke system. The ground is south of the Schlei, the long narrow fjord that cuts inland from the Baltic to Schleswig, between the villages of Fahrdorf, Schaalby and Fleckeby. In practice, for a rider, the label is a pointer to a landscape rather than a single monument: low farmland, hedged fields, small woods and quiet lanes that run down to the water.
Read the complete Offshore Work write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Offshore Work is where the day begins. Next is Crooked Wall Area 4.
2. 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 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstei.
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 Offshore Work.
4. Offshore Work
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Offshore Work write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Offshore Work. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Offshore Work to Crooked Wall Area 4
Offshore Work → Crooked Wall Area 4 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Crooked Wall Area 4 to back through Crooked Wall Area 4
Crooked Wall Area 4 → back through Crooked Wall Area 4 is 1 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Crooked Wall Area 4 to Offshore Work
back through Crooked Wall Area 4 → Offshore Work is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.