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Around Nuremberg
Around Nuremberg
Lovable octopus
Motorways, federal highways, railways, waterways ?? Nuremberg seems to be surrounded by octopus arms. The old town is untouched, it reveals a medieval ambience in its purest form.
Sylvia Lischer
01/16/2004
According to old biker wisdom, you can eat well where the trucks are in front of the door. On the A 9 leaves
Add another insight 20 kilometers from Nuremberg: Parking truckers on a lakeshore to celebrate their idle times with a fishing rod, then this must be a very special tip. In fact, right at the Allersberg exit, the Rothsee lies as if painted and invites you to take a break. Even if you don’t have a fishing license or, as a motorcyclist, don’t necessarily go for a walk with fishing rods in your pannier. Because it is excellent to bathe here. Or you can relax on a freshly mowed lawn in the sun from the exertions on the motorway.
The lake is a second-hand paradise, artificially created during the construction of the Main-Danube Canal, which leads past it to the west. Like a fjord, it seems to blend in naturally between the rolling hills with their spruce forests? only a few tree stumps protrude from the water as mute remnants of past life ?? Some buildings had to be flooded for the huge expanse of water.
Since I’ve already left the autobahn, I stay on the small country roads, try to revive the feeling of slouching and drive around the Nuremberg-Furth-Erlangen conurbation for the time being. Put the little Norton single a hook on the magnificent one
Past the renaissance castle of Roth, roll over the historical market square of the city and then further in the valley of the Rednitz to Schwabach. Picturesque half-timbered houses make you forget that we are whizzing along just below the southwestern edge of the densest urbanity. Satellite cities and industrial plants are miles away, river idyll dominates alternating with rural ambience. The latter suddenly takes on an exotic appearance when completely unknown plants, maize-high with huge leaves and white umbellate flowers, appear in the fields. Tobacco! Never seen in Germany. As if it would lead to Uncle Tom’s hut, the dignified Franconian communal connecting road near Regelsbach avoids
Tobacco Road, and whole truckloads of the freshly harvested nicotine dispensers are carted into the villages by tractor.
It’s hard to imagine that here, between Robtal and Cadolzheim,
where I cross the idyllic Bibert valley, very close to the pulse
of a hectic industrial area. And the little ones
Waldstrabchen also does not give a thought to a big city like Cadolzburg, where the romantic Franconia borders directly on the urban urbanity. The late Middle Ages are present here in every corner with its closed cityscape and the defiant castle. The little single babbles over cobblestones through the narrow city gate until I park him after a few corners. The district around the castle is better explored on foot.
Arrived directly at the gates of Furth, I could now be in the center of Nuremberg in twenty minutes via the city motorway. As early as 1835, Germany’s first railway line demonstrated the region’s perfect infrastructure. But after the many half-timbered houses and historical tours, I first get back on my motorcycle and continue on our circuit around the city. North of Herzogenaurach the landscape changes and is almost pockmarked covered by an army of small and tiny fish ponds. The streets are getting narrower and more winding, and finally I just follow the position of the sun. You won’t get lost in the wonderfully low-traffic maze anyway. Three important motorways, A 3, A 6, A 9, intertwine here and ensure that the traveler is one of six arms
Octopus is caught somewhere again and again. There are also seven tentacle-wide federal highways, eight railway legs and two waterways. The octopus seems to want to whirl all traffic into its mouth.
Nevertheless, Nuremberg is not a Moloch. On the contrary, the almost completely preserved medieval city walls still seem to want to shield everything hostile from the interior, even the high and majestic castle, which is enthroned on a hill, is not surrounded by traffic as in other large cities. Although there is an inner-city driving ban for motorcyclists from 10 p.m., if you sit in a cafe on Tiergartnertorplatz in the evening and look back and forth in the medieval surroundings between the castle and the Durerhaus, you will find it easier to return to your vehicle through the narrow streets perceive enjoyment as a nuisance. And on a foray the next morning on the Pegnitz, where the weeping willows melancholy hang their branches in the water and the blue chicken paddling peacefully around them, I still don’t miss the Norton. Motorcycles can be admired in the old town in the world-famous Nuremberg Toy Museum. Even at the risk of losing sight of your beloved two-wheeler, there are still sausages and legendary gingerbread to be tasted in the old town. But then at the latest, the airflow is due again.
Norti and I shoot out of the city towards the northeast, on the B 14 along the edge of the Sebalder Reichswald, dive into the huge pine forest that borders the entire east of the agglomeration with a wide green belt from Rothsee in the south to Erlangen in the north. The small town of Lauf appears, almost naturally surrounding us with a castle and wonderful Franconian half-timbered houses. I am outside ?? From Lauf the octopus arms let go of us, the traffic ebbs, small country roads roll under the wheels again and in contrast to the otherwise rather flat Nuremberg surrounding area, around 500 meters high mountains rise up here.
The Rothenberg with the fortress of the same name is one of them. and
also beautiful to drive around. Or further south the Moritzberg, Nuremberg’s local mountain. The Franconian Jura begins even further to the east, where things really get down to business in terms of motorcycle technology. If you are not careful, you can quickly get lost in the winding valleys and beautiful mountain stretches with your motorcycle and forget in wild cornering that actually only a short trip around Nuremberg was planned.
Around Nuremberg
Nuremberg’s old town is
one of the best preserved in Germany and with its medieval ambience absolutely worth seeing. That all around also one of the
largest metropolitan areas in Germany
easily forgotten-
guess. Are too good
the transport connections to quickly advance into the surrounding area, which offers a wide variety of landscape types between the Franconian Lake District and the Jura.
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