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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A 376 km round trip from Pöcking - roughly 5 h 32 in the saddle. It goes by way of Linderhof Castle, Water Management System of Augsburg and back through Linderhof Castle. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. An island ride, so the sea is never far.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 66 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 Linderhof Castle.
Of all the palaces King Ludwig II of Bavaria dreamed up, Linderhof is the only one he saw finished, and it is the one he actually lived in for long periods. Hidden in the Graswang valley in the Ammergau Alps, it is a small, extravagant rococo villa inspired by Versailles, with gilded rooms, a hall of mirrors and a dining table that rose from the kitchen below so that the shy king could eat without seeing servants. The park around it is full of follies: a Moorish kiosk, a Moroccan house and, most famous of all, the Venus Grotto, an artificial cave with a lake, a shell-shaped boat and coloured lighting, built so Ludwig could imagine himself in a Wagner opera. Linderhof belongs to the group of Ludwig's palaces recently listed by UNESCO.
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Linderhof Castle comes up about 73 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.
Read the complete Water Management System of Augsburg write-up.
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about 188 km into the recorded legs you reach Water Management System of Augsburg. Next is back through Linderhof Castle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Linderhof Castle write-up.
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back through Linderhof Castle, late in the day. Next is Rose Island.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rose Island write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rose Island. That is the ride.
Rose Island → Linderhof Castle is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Linderhof Castle → Water Management System of Augsburg is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Water Management System of Augsburg → back through Linderhof Castle is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Linderhof Castle → Rose Island is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.