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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384 km from Bad Schussenried to Bad Schussenried, about 7 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen, Robenhausen and back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Some five thousand years ago, someone in Upper Swabia built a wheel out of a single maple plank, mounted it on an axle and used it to move loads across the soft ground near what is now Bad Schussenried. The wheel turned up during excavations at the moor settlement of Olzreute-Enzisholz and is among the oldest wheels ever found in Central Europe, dated to around 2900 BC. The settlement, a group of pile dwellings on the edge of a former lake, is one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps listed by UNESCO in 2011, a transnational site across six countries.
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Olzreute-Enzisholz is where the day begins. Next is Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
Unteruhldingen is where most people first meet the prehistoric lake dwellers of the Alps, thanks to the Pfahlbaumuseum, an open-air museum of reconstructed houses on stilts standing in the shallow water of Lake Constance. It started in the 1920s and has been adding houses ever since, and walking along the wooden walkways between thatched huts gives you a vivid idea of village life thousands of years ago. The real archaeological sites, like Stollenwiesen just offshore, lie underwater, a series of settlements preserved in lake mud and listed by UNESCO in 2011 as part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps.
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Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Robenhausen.
In 1858 a local man named Jakob Messikommer began digging in the peat bog at Robenhausen, on the southern end of the Pfäffikersee in the Zurich Oberland, and he spent decades uncovering a remarkably rich Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement. His finds, from stone axes to woven textiles and charred bread, travelled to museums around the world and helped make Swiss lake dwellings famous. Today Robenhausen is one of the components of the UNESCO Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, though what remains lies underground in a protected wetland.
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about 189 km into the recorded legs you reach Robenhausen. Next is back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen, late in the day. Next is Olzreute-Enzisholz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Olzreute-Enzisholz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Olzreute-Enzisholz. That is the ride.
Olzreute-Enzisholz → Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Robenhausen is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Robenhausen → back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Olzreute-Enzisholz is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.