CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Hamburg it runs 359 km to Hamburg; allow about 4 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck, East Wall Area 2E to 2F and back through Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck. The line favours views over speed.
There is nowhere in Europe quite like the Speicherstadt, a whole district of warehouses built of dark red brick, rising straight out of the canals as if the water were a street. The buildings date from the 1880s, when Hamburg joined the German customs union and needed a place to store goods outside the customs zone, and they stand on thousands of oak piles driven into the soft mud. Their neo-Gothic gables, turrets and copper roofs make them look like a row of castles, and the streets between them are so narrow that you can touch both sides with outstretched hands. UNESCO recognised the district in 2015, together with the neighbouring Kontorhaus quarter.
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Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with is where the day begins. Next is Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck.
Lubeck's old town is a compact island, and Zone 2 is where its religious and civic heart lies. The Petrikirche, the church of St Peter, is a brick Gothic hall church that now serves as an exhibition space, and its tower has a lift that takes you up to a viewing platform with a view over the red roofs, the Trave river and the silhouettes of the other churches. It is the best way to understand the shape of the city, an oval island ringed by water.
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Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is East Wall Area 2E to 2F.
The Danevirke is a wall, or rather a series of walls, that once stretched across the neck of the Jutland peninsula, and this stretch is the eastern end, near the Windeby lake and the shore of the Baltic. The first earthworks went up in the seventh century, and later kings of Denmark extended them in several phases, culminating in a brick-faced wall built in the twelfth century under Valdemar the Great. The purpose was to protect the southern border against the Franks and the Saxons, and it worked more or less for several hundred years. A few steps along the grassy bank, and you can see a low ridge and a ditch, easily mistaken for a hedgerow.
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about 179 km into the recorded legs you reach East Wall Area 2E to 2F. Next is back through Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck.
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back through Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck, late in the day. Next is Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with.
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Back at Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with. That is the ride.
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with → Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck → East Wall Area 2E to 2F is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
East Wall Area 2E to 2F → back through Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Zone 2: Petrikirche - Dom zu Lübeck → Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.