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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From Uhldingen-Mühlhofen it runs 255 km to Uhldingen-Mühlhofen; allow about 3 h 46 of riding. The stops in between: Olzreute-Enzisholz, Ehrenstein and back through Olzreute-Enzisholz. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Unteruhldingen is where most people first meet the prehistoric lake dwellers of the Alps, thanks to the Pfahlbaumuseum, an open-air museum of reconstructed houses on stilts standing in the shallow water of Lake Constance. It started in the 1920s and has been adding houses ever since, and walking along the wooden walkways between thatched huts gives you a vivid idea of village life thousands of years ago. The real archaeological sites, like Stollenwiesen just offshore, lie underwater, a series of settlements preserved in lake mud and listed by UNESCO in 2011 as part of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps.
Read the complete Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen write-up.
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Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is where the day begins. Next is Olzreute-Enzisholz.
Some five thousand years ago, someone in Upper Swabia built a wheel out of a single maple plank, mounted it on an axle and used it to move loads across the soft ground near what is now Bad Schussenried. The wheel turned up during excavations at the moor settlement of Olzreute-Enzisholz and is among the oldest wheels ever found in Central Europe, dated to around 2900 BC. The settlement, a group of pile dwellings on the edge of a former lake, is one of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps listed by UNESCO in 2011, a transnational site across six countries.
Read the complete Olzreute-Enzisholz write-up.
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Olzreute-Enzisholz comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ehrenstein.
Ehrenstein is a small district on the western edge of Ulm, in the Blau valley, where the little Blau river flows from its spring at Blaubeuren towards the Danube. In the 1950s and 60s, archaeologists found here the remains of a Neolithic village, built on the damp ground of the valley floor around six thousand years ago, with wooden houses, hearths and remarkably well-preserved organic material. The site is part of the World Heritage list of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though there is nothing to see above ground today.
Read the complete Ehrenstein write-up.
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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Ehrenstein. Next is back through Olzreute-Enzisholz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Olzreute-Enzisholz write-up.
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back through Olzreute-Enzisholz, late in the day. Next is Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen. That is the ride.
Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Olzreute-Enzisholz is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olzreute-Enzisholz → Ehrenstein is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ehrenstein → back through Olzreute-Enzisholz is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Olzreute-Enzisholz → Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.