Why this ride
A 99 km round trip from Wesel - roughly 1 h 39 in the saddle. On the way it passes Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2, Till and back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2.
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 99 km round trip from Wesel - roughly 1 h 39 in the saddle. On the way it passes Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2, Till and back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2.
Here the Rhine bends through some of the emptiest farmland in western Germany. The fields at Flüren, north of Wesel, are flat enough to see a church tower from ten kilometres away, and the land runs in long, straight lines of willows, poplars and drainage ditches towards the Dutch border. This is the Niederrhein, a region where people have lived with floods for as long as they have farmed, and where the cycling routes are signposted better than the main roads.
Read the complete Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 4 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 4 is where the day begins. Next is Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2, 18 km on.
The Hochwald, a low wooded ridge between Uedem, Xanten and Kalkar in the Lower Rhine region, hides the traces of Roman military camps, temporary enclosures where troops trained, camped or prepared for campaigns. Uedem-Hochwald 7.2 is one of these, and the camps are part of the Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021. The camps were discovered through aerial photography and laser scanning, and they show how intensively the Romans used this area near their great base at Xanten.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2 comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Till. Next is back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2, 18 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2, late in the day. Next is Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 4.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 4 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 4. That is the ride.
Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 4 → Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2 → Till is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2 is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 7.2 → Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 4 is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.