Why this ride
A 66 km round trip from Uedem - roughly 1 h 13 in the saddle. The stops in between: Till, Kleve-Keeken and back through Till. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 and Kleve-Keeken
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 66 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 13
- 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. Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12
Between Uedem and Kalkar, the Hochwald is a block of forest on a low ridge in the flat country of the Lower Rhine, a few kilometres from the Dutch border. It looks like a quiet, orderly German woodland, with rows of pine and beech, forest tracks and the smell of resin, but the ridge has a hard history. In February and March 1945, during the Allied offensive to clear the area between the Maas and the Rhine, known as Operation Veritable, the Hochwald was part of a German defensive line, and some of the fiercest fighting of the campaign took place among its trees, with tanks bogged in mud and infantry digging in under shell fire.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 is where the day begins. Next is Till.
2. Till
The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.
Read the complete Till write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Till comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kleve-Keeken.
3. Kleve-Keeken
Here the Rhine stops being a German river. Just downstream of the village of Keeken, the great river crosses the border into the Netherlands, and a few kilometres further on it divides, with the Waal carrying most of the water west and the Pannerdens Canal leading to the Nederrijn and the IJssel. In Roman times, this was the northern frontier of the empire, the Lower German Limes, and Keeken is one of the sites listed as part of the UNESCO frontier, with traces of Roman military installations along the old river course.
Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 32 km into the recorded legs you reach Kleve-Keeken. Next is back through Till.
4. back through Till
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Till write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Till, late in the day. Next is Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12.
5. Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 to Till
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 → Till is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till to Kleve-Keeken
Till → Kleve-Keeken is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Keeken to back through Till
Kleve-Keeken → back through Till is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Till to Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12
back through Till → Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.