Why this ride
190 km from Weimar to Weimar, about 3 h of riding. The stops in between: Mikveh, Hainich and back through Mikveh. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The House Am Horn and Hainich
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 190 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 38
- 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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. The House Am Horn
Weimar has a way of making people feel they have walked into a library. Goethe and Schiller lived and worked here, Bach and Liszt played here, and in 1919 the German National Assembly met in the town to write the constitution of the Weimar Republic. That same year Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, merging the old art school and the school of applied arts into something new. The Haus Am Horn, built in 1923 for the school's first big exhibition, is the only Bauhaus building that was actually erected in Weimar itself.
Read the complete The House Am Horn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The House Am Horn is where the day begins. Next is Mikveh.
2. Mikveh
In 2007, during construction work near the Krämerbrücke in Erfurt, archaeologists uncovered a medieval ritual bath, a mikveh, beside the river Gera, which had been forgotten for centuries. It dates from the thirteenth century and was used by the city's Jewish community until the pogrom of 1349, when the community was destroyed during the panic of the Black Death. It is now protected and can be visited on guided tours. Together with the Old Synagogue and the Stone House, a medieval residence, the mikveh forms the Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt, listed by UNESCO in 2023.
Read the complete Mikveh write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mikveh comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hainich.
3. Hainich
Hainich is a long, low ridge of beech forest in the middle of Germany, and it has the distinction of being one of the few places in Europe where beech trees have been left to grow old. The national park, established in 1997, covers a large part of the ridge, and its oldest stands are part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and other Regions of Europe, a UNESCO listing. You notice the difference at once: tall, straight silver trunks, massive fallen logs covered in fungi, and a forest floor that smells of mould and mushrooms.
Read the complete Hainich write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Hainich. Next is back through Mikveh.
4. back through Mikveh
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mikveh write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mikveh, late in the day. Next is The House Am Horn.
5. The House Am Horn
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The House Am Horn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at The House Am Horn. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
The House Am Horn to Mikveh
The House Am Horn → Mikveh is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mikveh to Hainich
Mikveh → Hainich is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hainich to back through Mikveh
Hainich → back through Mikveh is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mikveh to The House Am Horn
back through Mikveh → The House Am Horn is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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