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 528 km to Uhldingen-Mühlhofen; allow about 9 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Insel Werd, Storen-Wildsberg, Oterswil / Insel Eielen and Halbinsel. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 89 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Insel Werd.
Where the Rhine leaves Lake Constance at Stein am Rhein, a group of small islands sits in the river, connected to the shore by a wooden footbridge, and on the largest, Werd, stands a small chapel surrounded by trees and water. It was here, in 759, that Saint Otmar, the first abbot of St Gallen, died in exile after falling foul of powerful local nobles, and the island has been a place of pilgrimage ever since. Long before Otmar, people lived here too: the islands and the surrounding shores are among the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, a World Heritage site, and excavations have found traces of settlements from the Neolithic onwards.
Read the complete Insel Werd write-up.
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Insel Werd comes up about 89 km into the recorded legs. Next is Storen-Wildsberg.
The Greifensee lies just east of Zurich, a shallow, quiet lake of about six kilometres in length, framed by reeds, meadows and the gentle hills of the Zurich Oberland. Its shores are largely protected, and there is no road running right along the water, which keeps it remarkably calm for a lake so close to Switzerland's biggest city. At Storen-Wildsberg near the village of Greifensee, the remains of a prehistoric settlement lie under the water and in the shoreline sediments, one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. As with all of them, it is the ground itself that is protected; there is nothing to see except the reeds and the water.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Storen-Wildsberg. Next is Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
Lake Zug is the quiet one among the central Swiss lakes, long and slender, with the Rigi rising steeply from its southern end and gentle farmland and orchards rolling down to its northern shores. Around its edges, as around many Alpine lakes, people built villages on the shore in prehistoric times, and the remains of these settlements at places like Oterswil and the little island of Eielen are among the sites of the transnational pile dwelling listing inscribed by UNESCO in 2011. Under water and mud, wooden piles, pottery and tools have survived for thousands of years.
Read the complete Oterswil / Insel Eielen write-up.
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Oterswil / Insel Eielen, about halfway. Next is Halbinsel.
At the northern tip of Lake Sempach, near the little town of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne, a small peninsula pushes into the water, and on and around it lie the remains of prehistoric lakeside settlements, part of the World Heritage site of the Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Nothing remains visible above ground, but under the water and in the wet soil of the shore, piles and objects have survived for thousands of years, telling the story of farmers and fishermen who lived here long before the Romans. Today, the shore is a quiet area of reeds, meadows and paths, popular with walkers and cyclists.
Read the complete Halbinsel write-up.
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Halbinsel sits at 165 km, about halfway. Next is back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen.
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Read the complete Oterswil / Insel Eielen write-up.
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back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen comes up about 321 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Storen-Wildsberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Storen-Wildsberg write-up.
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about 383 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Storen-Wildsberg. Next is back through Insel Werd.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Insel Werd write-up.
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back through Insel Werd, late in the day. Next is Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen write-up.
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The route ends here after 528 km.
Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen → Insel Werd is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Insel Werd → Storen-Wildsberg is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Storen-Wildsberg → Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oterswil / Insel Eielen → Halbinsel is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Halbinsel → back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oterswil / Insel Eielen → back through Storen-Wildsberg is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Storen-Wildsberg → back through Insel Werd is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Insel Werd → Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.