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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303 km from Augsburg to Augsburg, about 4 h 43 of riding. It goes by way of Pestenacker, Rose Island, Pilgrimage Church of Wies and back through Rose Island. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 33 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Augsburg was a Roman town, a medieval free imperial city and the home of the fabulously rich Fugger banking family, but the thing that held it all together was water. Over the centuries, the city built an intricate network of canals fed by the Lech and Wertach rivers, water towers, pumping stations and fountains, supplying clean drinking water to the citizens and power to mills and workshops. The system was so advanced that UNESCO inscribed it in 2019, recognising twenty-two sites, from the water towers at the Red Gate, dating back to the fifteenth century, to the great Renaissance fountains dedicated to Augustus, Mercury and Hercules on the main street.
Read the complete Water Management System of Augsburg write-up.
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Water Management System of Augsburg is where the day begins. Next is Pestenacker.
Pestenacker is a field in Bavaria with a secret under it. Around five and a half thousand years ago, Neolithic farmers built a settlement on the damp ground near the Lech, and the waterlogged soil preserved timber, tools and household remains that would have rotted elsewhere. It belongs to the family of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, inscribed by UNESCO in 2011, a group that also includes the Roseninsel in Lake Starnberg to the south. What you see at the surface is modest, since most of the evidence is below ground, so the interest here lies in imagining.
Read the complete Pestenacker write-up.
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Pestenacker comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rose Island.
Lake Starnberg, south-west of Munich, is the lake where Bavaria's Fairy Tale King met his end. Ludwig II drowned in its waters near Berg in 1886, in circumstances that are still debated, and a cross stands in the lake where his body was found. On the opposite shore, near Feldafing, lies the small Roseninsel, or Rose Island, the only island in the lake. Ludwig's father Maximilian II had a little villa built there, surrounded by a rose garden, and Ludwig used it as a retreat, sometimes meeting his cousin, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, who spent her childhood at nearby Possenhofen.
Read the complete Rose Island write-up.
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about 91 km into the recorded legs you reach Rose Island. Next is Pilgrimage Church of Wies.
In a meadow at the foot of the Ammergau Alps, surrounded by fields, cows and a few farmhouses, stands one of the most extraordinary churches in Europe. From the outside, the Wieskirche looks fairly plain, a white building with a modest tower. Step inside and you are hit by a wave of light, colour and movement: white and gold stucco, pastel frescoes, columns and galleries that seem to float, and a ceiling painting of Christ's return that opens the roof into heaven. It is the masterpiece of the Bavarian Rococo, built between 1745 and 1754 by Dominikus Zimmermann, with frescoes by his brother Johann Baptist, and it was listed by UNESCO in 1983.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Church of Wies write-up.
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Pilgrimage Church of Wies, about halfway. Next is back through Rose Island.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rose Island write-up.
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back through Rose Island sits at 183 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pestenacker.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pestenacker write-up.
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back through Pestenacker comes up about 269 km into the recorded legs. Next is Water Management System of Augsburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Water Management System of Augsburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Water Management System of Augsburg closes the day.
Water Management System of Augsburg → Pestenacker is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pestenacker → Rose Island is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rose Island → Pilgrimage Church of Wies is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pilgrimage Church of Wies → back through Rose Island is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rose Island → back through Pestenacker is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pestenacker → Water Management System of Augsburg is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.