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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735 km from Stralsund to Stralsund, about 12 h 48 of riding. On the way it passes Jasmund, Møns Klint and back through Jasmund. It crosses from Germany into Denmark - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 55 km this is Rugen Island Scenic Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Stralsund's skyline tells you at once that this was a rich merchant town. Red-brick Gothic gables, pointed spires and the enormous bulk of the Marienkirche, whose tower rises more than a hundred metres, crowd the old town island, which is surrounded by water and linked to the mainland by causeways. In the Middle Ages, Stralsund was one of the leading members of the Hanseatic League, the trading alliance that dominated the Baltic, and together with Wismar its old town is a World Heritage site. In the harbour, the three-masted Gorch Fock I, a sail training ship, is moored, and the Ozeaneum, a striking modern museum of sea life, stands beside it.
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Stralsund is where the day begins. Next is Jasmund.
White cliffs rise out of a dark beech forest on the north-east corner of Rügen, which is a strange thing to see in Germany. Jasmund is a peninsula of chalk, laid down in the Cretaceous sea some seventy million years ago and then pushed and folded by the ice that covered the Baltic coast. Its best-known point is the Königsstuhl, the King's Chair, where the cliffs reach more than a hundred metres over the water, and the scene was made famous by Caspar David Friedrich's painting of the chalk cliffs, in which small figures peer over the edge in a mixture of awe and fear.
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Jasmund comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Møns Klint.
The chalk cliffs of Møn rise out of the Baltic in a long white wall, with beech woods growing on top, and it is one of the few places in Denmark where the land stands up and makes an impression. At its highest the cliff is about 120 metres, and it runs for around six kilometres along the island's eastern coast. The chalk was laid down on the sea floor in the Cretaceous period, about 70 million years ago, from the skeletons of tiny marine organisms, and glaciers in the last Ice Age pushed it up and folded it into the shape you see.
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about 366 km into the recorded legs you reach Møns Klint. Next is back through Jasmund.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jasmund write-up.
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back through Jasmund, late in the day. Next is Stralsund.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Stralsund write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Stralsund. That is the ride.
Stralsund → Jasmund is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jasmund → Møns Klint is 311 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Møns Klint → back through Jasmund is 311 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Jasmund → Stralsund is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.