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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A 184 km round trip from Uedem - roughly 3 h 15 in the saddle. On the way it passes Kleve-Reichswald | East, Elst-Grote Kerk, Tiel Inundation Canal and back through Elst-Grote Kerk. It crosses from Germany into Netherlands - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 is where the day begins. Next is Kleve-Reichswald | East.
South of Kleve, near the Dutch border, the Reichswald is one of the largest forests in the Lower Rhine region, a mix of oak, beech and pine on a low ridge of sand and gravel left behind by the glaciers of the Ice Age. On its edge, the Romans built military installations as part of the Lower German Limes, the frontier along the Rhine, and the remains in the Reichswald, including traces of camps, are part of the World Heritage site listed by UNESCO in 2021. There is little to see above ground, but the forest itself is a quiet, beautiful place to walk.
Read the complete Kleve-Reichswald | East write-up.
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Kleve-Reichswald | East comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Elst-Grote Kerk.
Elst is a commuter town in the Betuwe, the flat river island between the Rhine and the Waal, halfway between Arnhem and Nijmegen. At first glance there is nothing remarkable about its big brick church on the market square. The surprise lies underneath it. Excavations in the twentieth century found the remains of two Roman temples beneath the floor, built one after another on the same spot, dedicated to a local god adopted into the Roman world. The site belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021, and the foundations can be seen in the church cellar when it is open.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Elst-Grote Kerk. Next is Tiel Inundation Canal.
Tiel is a river town on the Waal, the main branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands, in the middle of the Betuwe, a region of orchards, dykes and meadows between the Waal and the Lower Rhine. Just outside the town, a wide, straight channel runs through the fields, crossed by bridges and lined by dykes. This is the Tiel inundation canal, built in the late nineteenth century as part of the New Dutch Waterline, the defensive system of controlled flooding that protected the heart of Holland, and it is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
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Tiel Inundation Canal, about halfway. Next is back through Elst-Grote Kerk.
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Read the complete Elst-Grote Kerk write-up.
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back through Elst-Grote Kerk sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kleve-Reichswald | East.
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Read the complete Kleve-Reichswald | East write-up.
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back through Kleve-Reichswald | East comes up about 160 km into the recorded legs. Next is Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 write-up.
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Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 closes the day.
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 → Kleve-Reichswald | East is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Reichswald | East → Elst-Grote Kerk is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Elst-Grote Kerk → Tiel Inundation Canal is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Elst-Grote Kerk is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Elst-Grote Kerk → back through Kleve-Reichswald | East is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Reichswald | East → Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.