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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From Steingaden it runs 336 km to Steingaden; allow about 5 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: Unfriedshausen, Lone Valley and back through Unfriedshausen. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It follows river valleys.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Unfriedshausen.
Unfriedshausen is a hamlet in the rolling farmland west of the Ammersee, part of the municipality of Geltendorf in the Landsberg district of Bavaria, and if you have never heard of it, you are in good company. This is the gentle, prosperous countryside between Munich and Augsburg, a patchwork of fields, meadows, spruce woods, onion-domed churches and farmhouses with balconies full of geraniums, and it is the kind of place where the main event of the day might be a tractor crossing the road.
Read the complete Unfriedshausen write-up.
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Unfriedshausen comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lone Valley.
The Lone is a small river in the Swabian Jura, east of Ulm, that often vanishes underground in dry weather, slipping into the limestone and leaving its bed empty. Its quiet valley, flanked by wooded slopes and limestone cliffs, holds caves where some of the oldest figurative art in the world was found. In the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, fragments of a figure carved from mammoth ivory were pieced together into the Lion Man, a being with a human body and a lion's head, around forty thousand years old. In the Vogelherd cave, tiny ivory animals, a horse, a mammoth, a cave lion, emerged from the sediment.
Read the complete Lone Valley write-up.
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about 168 km into the recorded legs you reach Lone Valley. Next is back through Unfriedshausen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Unfriedshausen write-up.
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back through Unfriedshausen, late in the day. Next is 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 at Pilgrimage Church of Wies. That is the ride.
Pilgrimage Church of Wies → Unfriedshausen is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Unfriedshausen → Lone Valley is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Lone Valley → back through Unfriedshausen is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Unfriedshausen → Pilgrimage Church of Wies is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.