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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From Lorsch it runs 130 km to Lorsch; allow about 1 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes Worms Synagogue Compound, Exhibition grounds 1904 and back through Worms Synagogue Compound. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Lorsch Abbey, founded in the eighth century, became one of the most powerful monasteries of the Carolingian empire, with vast estates, a famous library and the patronage of Charlemagne himself. Its first home, however, was not on the site of the later abbey, but a short distance away, on an island in the Weschnitz river, a place known as Altenmünster, the old minster. The ruins of that first foundation, a few low walls in a meadow, are a quiet counterpoint to the abbey's most famous building, the Torhalle, a gatehouse with a façade of red and white stone panels, one of the few surviving examples of Carolingian architecture. The abbey and Altenmünster together have been on the UNESCO list since 1991.
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Ruine Altenmuster is where the day begins. Next is Worms Synagogue Compound.
In the Middle Ages, three Rhineland cities, Speyer, Worms and Mainz, were the centres of Jewish learning in northern Europe, and they gave their initials, in Hebrew, to a community known as ShUM. The Jewish communities of these cities developed traditions, laws and customs that influenced Ashkenazi Jewry for centuries, and their monuments were listed together by UNESCO in 2021. In Worms, the synagogue compound includes the synagogue, rebuilt after its destruction by the Nazis in 1938, the women's synagogue, the mikveh, a ritual bath dating from the twelfth century, and the Rashi house, now a Jewish museum, named after the great medieval scholar who studied here.
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Worms Synagogue Compound comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Exhibition grounds 1904.
In 1899, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse invited a group of young artists and architects to Darmstadt and gave them a hill to build on. The Mathildenhöhe became an artists' colony and a showcase for Jugendstil, the German Art Nouveau, with studios, houses and exhibitions designed as total works of art, down to the cutlery. Behind it lay a simple idea: that art should shape everyday life, from the house to the chair to the wallpaper. The exhibitions of 1901, 1904, 1908 and 1914 drew visitors from all over Europe, and the ensemble was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2021.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Exhibition grounds 1904. Next is back through Worms Synagogue Compound.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Worms Synagogue Compound write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Worms Synagogue Compound, late in the day. Next is Ruine Altenmuster.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ruine Altenmuster write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ruine Altenmuster. That is the ride.
Ruine Altenmuster → Worms Synagogue Compound is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Worms Synagogue Compound → Exhibition grounds 1904 is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Exhibition grounds 1904 → back through Worms Synagogue Compound is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Worms Synagogue Compound → Ruine Altenmuster is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.