Why this ride
A 157 km round trip from Sipplingen - roughly 2 h 16 in the saddle. On the way it passes Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen, Wangen-Hinterhorn and back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Sipplingen-Osthafen and Wangen-Hinterhorn
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 157 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 16
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Grand Tour of Switzerland
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 16 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 16 km
- Named road
- Grand Tour of Switzerland
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Sipplingen-Osthafen
At Sipplingen the north shore of Lake Constance changes character. The Überlinger See, the long north-western arm of the lake, is hemmed in here by steep molasse cliffs and wooded slopes rising to the Sipplinger Berg, and the village sits on a narrow strip between the hill and the water. Below the surface off the eastern harbour lie the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, villages of wooden houses built on stilts along the shore some five to six thousand years ago. They are part of the World Heritage site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
Read the complete Sipplingen-Osthafen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sipplingen-Osthafen is where the day begins. Next is Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
2. 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.
Read the complete Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wangen-Hinterhorn.
3. Wangen-Hinterhorn
When the water of the Untersee, the western arm of Lake Constance, was unusually low in the winter of 1853 to 1854, people around the Swiss and German shores noticed wooden posts sticking out of the mud. They were the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings, villages built on the lakeshore thousands of years ago, and the find sparked a wave of research and a craze for lake-dwelling romance across Europe. Wangen, on the German shore of the Untersee, was one of the first sites studied, and Wangen-Hinterhorn belongs to the World Heritage inscription for prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though there is nothing to see above the water.
Read the complete Wangen-Hinterhorn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Wangen-Hinterhorn. Next is back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
4. back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen, late in the day. Next is Sipplingen-Osthafen.
5. Sipplingen-Osthafen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sipplingen-Osthafen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Sipplingen-Osthafen. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Sipplingen-Osthafen to Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen
Sipplingen-Osthafen → Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen to Wangen-Hinterhorn
Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Wangen-Hinterhorn is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wangen-Hinterhorn to back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen
Wangen-Hinterhorn → back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen to Sipplingen-Osthafen
back through Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Sipplingen-Osthafen is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.