Why this ride
Out of Dinkelsbühl, one way: 105 km, roughly 1 h 34 in the saddle. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Romantic Road: Dinkelsbuhl to Augsburg
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 105 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 34
- Journey
- One way; return travel is separate
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Romantic Road
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 32 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 32 km
- Named road
- Romantic Road
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Dinkelsbuhl
Dinkelsbühl is the one that makes people stop talking mid-sentence when they ride through the gate. A complete medieval wall rings the old town, with towers, a moat of lawns and a maze of lanes of gabled houses painted in butter and rose, and the whole thing came through the Second World War largely untouched. It lies on the Wörnitz in western Bavaria, a town of about twelve thousand people on the Romantic Road, which makes it a natural place to start or end a day on that famous route.
Read the complete Dinkelsbuhl write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Dinkelsbuhl is where the day begins. Next is Nordlingen.
2. Nordlingen
Nördlingen sits in the middle of a hole in the ground, and the hole was made from space. About fourteen and a half million years ago, a meteorite crashed into this part of southern Germany and left a crater about twenty-five kilometres wide, the Ries, now a gently bowl-shaped plain of fields, villages and low hills. Nördlingen was built inside it, in a perfect circle, and the medieval wall that surrounds it is almost round, the only fully preserved ring wall in Germany that you can walk along the top of. The walk takes about an hour.
Read the complete Nordlingen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Nordlingen comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Augsburg.
3. Augsburg
Augsburg is older than almost everything else on the Romantic Road, and it knows it. The Romans founded a camp here in 15 BC and named it after Emperor Augustus, and for much of the Middle Ages it was one of the richest cities in Europe, thanks to the Fugger and Welser banking families, who lent money to emperors and popes. The Fuggerei, a walled quarter of small yellow houses built by Jakob Fugger in 1521, is the world's oldest social housing complex still in use, and the annual rent is famously less than a euro.
Read the complete Augsburg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 105 km.
Leg by leg
Dinkelsbuhl to Nordlingen
Dinkelsbuhl → Nordlingen is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nordlingen to Augsburg
Nordlingen → Augsburg is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.