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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385 km from Bad Schussenried to Bad Schussenried, about 7 h 30 of riding. It goes by way of Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen, Robenhausen and back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Long before the Federsee became a moor, it was a lake with villages along its edge, and the villagers built on wet ground. In the Bronze Age, people here set their houses on timber platforms and foundations at the water's edge, and as the lake slowly silted up, the waterlogged peat sealed their remains. Wooden posts, tools and pottery survived in astonishing condition. The Siedlung Forschner, named for the farmer on whose land it lay, is one of the excavated settlements, and it belongs to the group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that UNESCO listed in 2011.
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Siedlung Forschner is where the day begins. Next is Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
Unteruhldingen is where most people first meet the prehistoric lake dwellers of the Alps, thanks to the Pfahlbaumuseum, an open-air museum of reconstructed houses on stilts standing in the shallow water of Lake Constance. It started in the 1920s and has been adding houses ever since, and walking along the wooden walkways between thatched huts gives you a vivid idea of village life thousands of years ago. The real archaeological sites, like Stollenwiesen just offshore, lie underwater, a series of settlements preserved in lake mud and listed by UNESCO in 2011 as part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps.
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Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Robenhausen.
In 1858 a local man named Jakob Messikommer began digging in the peat bog at Robenhausen, on the southern end of the Pfäffikersee in the Zurich Oberland, and he spent decades uncovering a remarkably rich Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement. His finds, from stone axes to woven textiles and charred bread, travelled to museums around the world and helped make Swiss lake dwellings famous. Today Robenhausen is one of the components of the UNESCO Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, though what remains lies underground in a protected wetland.
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about 190 km into the recorded legs you reach Robenhausen. Next is back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen write-up.
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back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen, late in the day. Next is Siedlung Forschner.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Siedlung Forschner write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Siedlung Forschner. That is the ride.
Siedlung Forschner → Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Robenhausen is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Robenhausen → back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 131 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Siedlung Forschner is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.