Why this ride
A 62 km round trip from Uedem - roughly 1 h 18 in the saddle. The stops in between: Till, Kleve-Keeken and back through Till. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 4 and Kleve-Keeken
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 62 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 18
- 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 4
Kalkar is where the Hochwald roads lead you if you let them, and Kalkar is full of surprises. It is a small brick town of fourteen thousand on the Lower Rhine plain, and its market square is a model of late medieval civic pride, with a stepped-gable town hall from the fifteenth century facing the church of St Nicolai, where a set of carved wooden altars made in the town's own workshops around 1500 draw art historians from far away. Hochwald 4 itself lies in the forest about seven kilometres from the centre, so you come to the town after the woods.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 4 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 4 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 16 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 31 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 4.
5. Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 4
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 4 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 4. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 4 to Till
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 4 → Till is 16 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 4
back through Till → Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 4 is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.