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 340 km round trip from Konstanz - roughly 4 h 46 in the saddle. On the way it passes Robenhausen, Kehrsiten and back through Robenhausen. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Germany into Switzerland - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Konstanz is the German city that sits on Switzerland's lap, so close to the border that the two towns, Konstanz and Kreuzlingen, run into each other with a fence in between. The old town lies on the narrows between the Obersee and the Untersee, the two halves of Lake Constance, where the Rhine leaves the lake, and it has one of the best preserved medieval centres in southern Germany. Its survival has a simple explanation: it was not bombed in the Second World War, partly because of its closeness to neutral Switzerland. In the early fifteenth century, it hosted the Council of Constance, which ended a split in the Catholic Church and condemned the reformer Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake in 1415.
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Wollmatingen-Langenrain is where the day begins. Next is Robenhausen.
In 1858 a local man named Jakob Messikommer began digging in the peat bog at Robenhausen, on the southern end of the Pfäffikersee in the Zurich Oberland, and he spent decades uncovering a remarkably rich Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement. His finds, from stone axes to woven textiles and charred bread, travelled to museums around the world and helped make Swiss lake dwellings famous. Today Robenhausen is one of the components of the UNESCO Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, though what remains lies underground in a protected wetland.
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Robenhausen comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kehrsiten.
Kehrsiten is a small settlement on the southern shore of Lake Lucerne, at the foot of the Bürgenstock, a steep, forested ridge that juts out into the lake, and it feels almost cut off from the rest of Switzerland. A narrow road follows the shore from Stansstad, squeezed between the rocks and the water, and ends here; beyond, the cliffs of the Bürgenstock drop straight into the lake. For most visitors, Kehrsiten is the place where the boat from Lucerne stops and the Bürgenstock funicular begins, climbing steeply through the forest to the resort on top, which has been welcoming guests since the late nineteenth century.
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about 170 km into the recorded legs you reach Kehrsiten. Next is back through Robenhausen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Robenhausen write-up.
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back through Robenhausen, late in the day. Next is Wollmatingen-Langenrain.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wollmatingen-Langenrain write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Wollmatingen-Langenrain. That is the ride.
Wollmatingen-Langenrain → Robenhausen is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Robenhausen → Kehrsiten is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kehrsiten → back through Robenhausen is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Robenhausen → Wollmatingen-Langenrain is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.