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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A 404 km round trip from Pöcking - roughly 6 h 58 in the saddle. On the way it passes Unfriedshausen, Water Management System of Augsburg, Lone Valley and Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Lake Starnberg, south-west of Munich, is the lake where Bavaria's Fairy Tale King met his end. Ludwig II drowned in its waters near Berg in 1886, in circumstances that are still debated, and a cross stands in the lake where his body was found. On the opposite shore, near Feldafing, lies the small Roseninsel, or Rose Island, the only island in the lake. Ludwig's father Maximilian II had a little villa built there, surrounded by a rose garden, and Ludwig used it as a retreat, sometimes meeting his cousin, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, who spent her childhood at nearby Possenhofen.
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Rose Island 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.
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Unfriedshausen comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Water Management System of Augsburg.
Augsburg was a Roman town, a medieval free imperial city and the home of the fabulously rich Fugger banking family, but the thing that held it all together was water. Over the centuries, the city built an intricate network of canals fed by the Lech and Wertach rivers, water towers, pumping stations and fountains, supplying clean drinking water to the citizens and power to mills and workshops. The system was so advanced that UNESCO inscribed it in 2019, recognising twenty-two sites, from the water towers at the Red Gate, dating back to the fifteenth century, to the great Renaissance fountains dedicated to Augustus, Mercury and Hercules on the main street.
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about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Water Management System of Augsburg. 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.
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Lone Valley, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen.
The largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps stood on the site of today's Aalen, in the eastern Swabian Jura. It was home to a regiment of a thousand horsemen, the ala II Flavia, the most prestigious cavalry unit on the Raetian frontier, and its walls enclosed a huge area, with barracks, stables, granaries and a headquarters building. Beside it grew a civilian settlement, with traders, craftsmen and families. Today the site is home to the Limesmuseum Aalen, one of the most important museums of the Roman frontier in Germany, with excavated foundations, reconstructions and a rich collection of finds. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen sits at 202 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lone Valley.
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back through Lone Valley comes up about 246 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Water Management System of Augsburg.
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Read the complete Water Management System of Augsburg write-up.
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about 323 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Water Management System of Augsburg. Next is back through Unfriedshausen.
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Read the complete Unfriedshausen write-up.
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back through Unfriedshausen, late in the day. Next is Rose Island.
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Read the complete Rose Island write-up.
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The route ends here after 404 km.
Rose Island → Unfriedshausen is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Unfriedshausen → Water Management System of Augsburg is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Water Management System of Augsburg → Lone Valley is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Lone Valley → Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen → back through Lone Valley is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lone Valley → back through Water Management System of Augsburg is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Water Management System of Augsburg → back through Unfriedshausen is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Unfriedshausen → Rose Island is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.