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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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402 km from Geltendorf to Geltendorf, about 6 h 56 of riding. The stops in between: Pilgrimage Church of Wies, Olzreute-Enzisholz and back through Pilgrimage Church of Wies. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Pestenacker is a field in Bavaria with a secret under it. Around five and a half thousand years ago, Neolithic farmers built a settlement on the damp ground near the Lech, and the waterlogged soil preserved timber, tools and household remains that would have rotted elsewhere. It belongs to the family of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, inscribed by UNESCO in 2011, a group that also includes the Roseninsel in Lake Starnberg to the south. What you see at the surface is modest, since most of the evidence is below ground, so the interest here lies in imagining.
Read the complete Pestenacker write-up.
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Pestenacker is where the day begins. Next is Pilgrimage Church of Wies.
In a meadow at the foot of the Ammergau Alps, surrounded by fields, cows and a few farmhouses, stands one of the most extraordinary churches in Europe. From the outside, the Wieskirche looks fairly plain, a white building with a modest tower. Step inside and you are hit by a wave of light, colour and movement: white and gold stucco, pastel frescoes, columns and galleries that seem to float, and a ceiling painting of Christ's return that opens the roof into heaven. It is the masterpiece of the Bavarian Rococo, built between 1745 and 1754 by Dominikus Zimmermann, with frescoes by his brother Johann Baptist, and it was listed by UNESCO in 1983.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Church of Wies write-up.
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Pilgrimage Church of Wies comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Olzreute-Enzisholz.
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.
Read the complete Olzreute-Enzisholz write-up.
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about 201 km into the recorded legs you reach Olzreute-Enzisholz. Next is back through Pilgrimage Church of Wies.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Church of Wies write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pilgrimage Church of Wies, late in the day. Next is Pestenacker.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pestenacker write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pestenacker. That is the ride.
Pestenacker → Pilgrimage Church of Wies is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pilgrimage Church of Wies → Olzreute-Enzisholz is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Olzreute-Enzisholz → back through Pilgrimage Church of Wies is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pilgrimage Church of Wies → Pestenacker is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.