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 98 km round trip from Worms - roughly 1 h 33 in the saddle. The stops in between: Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch, Exhibition grounds 1904 and back through Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 21 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Heiliger Sand in Worms is the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Europe, with gravestones going back to the eleventh century. Weathered sandstone slabs lean at angles among the grass and trees, carved with Hebrew inscriptions, some barely legible after nearly a thousand years. Pebbles and small notes lie on many of them, left by visitors as a sign of remembrance, especially on the grave of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, a great scholar of the thirteenth century who died in captivity. Together with the synagogue and ritual bath of Worms and the Jewish sites of Speyer and Mainz, the cemetery forms the ShUM Sites, listed by UNESCO in 2021, recognising the Rhineland communities that shaped Ashkenazi Jewish culture in the Middle Ages.
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Old Jewish Cemetery Worms is where the day begins. Next is Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch.
Lorsch looks like a regular small town of the Hessian Bergstrasse, and then you see the Torhalle, a little gatehouse of red and white stone with an arcade at the bottom and a pitched roof above, which is one of the very few surviving buildings of the Carolingian age in Germany. The abbey was founded in 764, rose to enormous wealth and influence under Charlemagne's family, and its library produced and preserved a startling number of manuscripts. The Lorsch Pharmacopoeia, written around 795, is one of the earliest known medical texts from German lands, and the monks' collection of books is scattered through libraries in Rome, Heidelberg and the Vatican today. UNESCO listed the abbey and nearby Altenmünster in 1991.
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Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Exhibition grounds 1904.
In 1899, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse invited a group of young artists and architects to Darmstadt and gave them a hill to build on. The Mathildenhöhe became an artists' colony and a showcase for Jugendstil, the German Art Nouveau, with studios, houses and exhibitions designed as total works of art, down to the cutlery. Behind it lay a simple idea: that art should shape everyday life, from the house to the chair to the wallpaper. The exhibitions of 1901, 1904, 1908 and 1914 drew visitors from all over Europe, and the ensemble was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2021.
Read the complete Exhibition grounds 1904 write-up.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Exhibition grounds 1904. Next is back through Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch, late in the day. Next is Old Jewish Cemetery Worms.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old Jewish Cemetery Worms write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Old Jewish Cemetery Worms. That is the ride.
Old Jewish Cemetery Worms → Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch → Exhibition grounds 1904 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Exhibition grounds 1904 → back through Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch → Old Jewish Cemetery Worms is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.