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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A 391 km round trip from Quedlinburg - roughly 7 h 18 in the saddle. On the way it passes Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of, Hainich and back through Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 69 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Quedlinburg is a town that looks as if someone forgot to demolish it, and the result is a delight. More than a thousand timber-framed houses survive in its old centre, representing every century from the fourteenth to the nineteenth, and the lanes between them are so narrow and so cobbled that a motorcycle feels like an intruder. UNESCO listed the town in 1994 as an outstanding example of a medieval European town, and the claim is hard to argue with. It sits at the northern edge of the Harz mountains, with the rounded forested hills on the horizon to the south and the flat Saxon lowlands to the north.
Read the complete Old and new towns of Quedlinburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Old and new towns of Quedlinburg is where the day begins. Next is Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of.
Goslar is a small city at the northern edge of the Harz, and it is hard to overstate how much money and power sat here in the Middle Ages. The Rammelsberg hill, just south of the town, held a vast body of silver, lead, copper and zinc ore, and mining went on for about a thousand years, until the mine closed in 1988. The Ottonian and Salian emperors built their palace in Goslar because the silver paid for it. The imperial palace, the Kaiserpfalz, still stands in a big, over-restored form on the edge of the old town. UNESCO listed the mine and the old town together in 1992, and in 2010 the Upper Harz water system was added to the same site.
Read the complete Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of write-up.
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Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hainich.
Hainich is a long, low ridge of beech forest in the middle of Germany, and it has the distinction of being one of the few places in Europe where beech trees have been left to grow old. The national park, established in 1997, covers a large part of the ridge, and its oldest stands are part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and other Regions of Europe, a UNESCO listing. You notice the difference at once: tall, straight silver trunks, massive fallen logs covered in fungi, and a forest floor that smells of mould and mushrooms.
Read the complete Hainich write-up.
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about 194 km into the recorded legs you reach Hainich. Next is back through Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of, late in the day. Next is Old and new towns of Quedlinburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old and new towns of Quedlinburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Old and new towns of Quedlinburg. That is the ride.
Old and new towns of Quedlinburg → Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of → Hainich is 129 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hainich → back through Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of → Old and new towns of Quedlinburg is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.