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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An 86 km round trip from Steinhausen - roughly 1 h 28 in the saddle. The stops in between: Vorder Au, Technikum and back through Vorder Au. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Zug has a reputation as one of the wealthiest places in Switzerland, a small canton of low taxes, glass office blocks and companies registered by the hundred. But beneath the surface, quite literally, lies a much older story. Along the shores of Lake Zug, archaeologists have found the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age villages built on piles in the shallow water and marshy ground, and Riedmatt, near the border between Steinhausen, Cham and Zug, is one of the sites included in the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps World Heritage listing. As with most such sites, there is nothing visible on the surface; the remains are preserved in the waterlogged ground.
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Riedmatt is where the day begins. Next is Vorder Au.
The Au peninsula pokes out into Lake Zurich like a green thumb, and at its tip, Vorder Au, the shallow water hides traces of villages built on piles thousands of years ago. It is one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though as with most of them, the archaeology lies under the lake bed and is protected rather than displayed. What you see is a wooded little hill with a castle-like house, vineyards running down to the water, reed beds and a small harbour.
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Vorder Au comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Technikum.
Students at the technical university in Rapperswil study engineering on a lakeside campus, and beneath the shoreline in front of their buildings lie the remains of villages that people built on piles thousands of years ago. The site, named after the old Technikum, as the college was long known, is one of the prehistoric pile dwelling sites around Lake Zurich included in the UNESCO listing of 2011. Nothing is visible, but the idea that this shore has been home to people for so long gives a different perspective to a stroll along the promenade.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Technikum. Next is back through Vorder Au.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vorder Au write-up.
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back through Vorder Au, late in the day. Next is Riedmatt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Riedmatt write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Riedmatt. That is the ride.
Riedmatt → Vorder Au is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vorder Au → Technikum is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Technikum → back through Vorder Au is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vorder Au → Riedmatt is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.