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Motorcycle tours through Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia

Motorcycle tours through Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia

Motorcycle tours through Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia

Motorcycle tours through Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia

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Motorbike tour through North Rhine-Westphalia. Sauerland and Bergisches Land are biker hits.

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As a good German state, NRW also has the finest half-timbering in its program. Here a jewel in Hoxter.

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One hour south of Cologne, the Eifel part in North Rhine-Westphalia already attracts with sensational motorcycle routes.

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Little brother of the giant telescope Effelsberg: satellite dish on the Stockert near Bad Munstereifel.

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Pit stop in the Bergisches Land.

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The thousandth curve in the Sauerland behind Oberhundem.

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Rarities on the Koterberg: Jurgen Heidemann with his 20-year-old Honda Hawk.

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Jewelery: Husqvarna Nuda and the castle in Bad Berleburg.

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NRW diversity: meditative driving in blooming landscapes – lonely roads are normal in the Weser Uplands.

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Egyptian moments with Sauerland pyramids in the knowledge and puzzle park Galileo in Lennestadt.

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Finally arrived: Peace and quiet on the Biggesee.

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That’s good: Driveway to the Hohe Bracht. Away from the conurbations, NRW offers the best routes in the low mountain ranges.

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Forward in the Weser Uplands. These routes are among the most attractive of all federal states in terms of driving technology.

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Motorcycle tours through Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia

Motorcycle tours through Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia
With the motorcycle across North Rhine-Westphalia

Big cities, big industry, big highways. If you only have these stereotypes in mind when it comes to North Rhine-Westphalia, you are missing out. On the second stage of the Germany Marathon, Dirk Schafer shows why – and thus also provides visitors to Intermot in Cologne with ideas for spicy trade fair escapes.

Dirk Schafer

09/27/2012

Do you remember what a flux compensator is? The box from “Back to the Future”, with which you can travel through time. I have that thing on board. I think so. My way should lead to the radio telescope Effelsberg. A salad bowl with a diameter of 100 meters that never misses a fart between here and the edge of the plate of the universe. But I must have been thrown back decades. Because wherever I stopped, there was only a coffee cup left of the salad bowl. The whole thing looks like it was Mister Spock’s childhood days. And all of this in the middle of the Eifel. There is something wrong!

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The flux compensator is quickly exposed. With the harmless abbreviation GPS, the time machine is emblazoned on the handlebars of the Triumph. Well, I admit that the time jump could also have been caused by incorrect operation of my GPS compensator. Who knows that the Eifel is full of interstellar listening posts? If there is “telescope” in the address line … On the other hand, the mini telescope, which goes by the name of Astropeiler, is perhaps even more attractive than the giant part from the neighborhood. In any case, you are not allowed to go to the 100-meter bowl by bike.

Fired on by this chance find, I ignite the three-jet engine of the Street Triple. Rhine course. An hour and countless Eifel curves later, milky clouds stare over the river. Under the colorless sky, the otherwise picturesque Drachenfels winds like a dragon with a stomach ache. The ferry dismisses us on the “Schal Sick”, that side of the Rhine where the Teutons lived in Roman times. But now an increasingly angled lane crouches under the dense forest behind Bad Honnef. Heaven is off for now, brisk pace too. Numbers with red circles on the roadside dictate the pace. Actually not bad at all. Easy settling for the next stage. I already know what’s waiting for me. The Bergisches Land. Home territory. Goodbye flux compensator and GPS! Also two driving friends: Andy and Bernd, the latter from Hamburg.

The heavenly milk broth has warped. We follow our noses and how our beak has grown. Left, right, left. Hohkeppel, Thier, Gimborn. Fidgety country roads, summer green knolls. North Rhine-Westphalia is the industrial state of the republic. Which industry? Here in the back room of Cologne and the Ruhr area, nothing more remains than the inkling of a distant reality. Short coffee break at one of the dozens of Bergisch dams. Bernd’s Hanseatic face is wrinkled in grinning lines. “I wouldn’t have thought of that. Dos you dos here sou schoein raised. ”“ Have you ever been to the Sauerland? Rothaargebirge? “” No, no. “” Yes, then it’ll be even better! “


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As a good German state, NRW also has the finest half-timbering in its program. Here a jewel in Hoxter.

Before that, we turn south again in a large arc. From Ruppichteroth to the Siegtal. Ten kilometers without a place, without a large intersection through asphalt undergrowth. I whistle first with the three-cylinder, Andy follows with the bearded Nuda, and Bernd’s GS in world travel trim swings behind like a motorized menhir. I haven’t been here in a long time. Apparently too long. Otherwise I should have known: The smart federal highway 256 in the direction of Waldbrol is closed to motorbikes at the weekend. A few meters later, a quirky detour climbs up the mountain in the same direction. Not bad at all, this alternate path!

“You know what’s here?” Bernd repeatedly points to the menu. We have just stopped at an inn between Lister and Biggesee. We would probably have curved even further if our stomachs hadn’t thumped on dinner. And then Bernd sees himself faced with a culinary riddle: “What is Potthucke eating?” The landlady explains: Potato dough with sausage filling. Because the dough often sits in the pot, the pot, it is called the whole Potthucke.

With a belated cockcrow, we stab into the Sauerland in the morning. Half-timbered idyll, well-tended village squares, land of 1000 curves. I mean, yes, there are more curves. Well, we’ll check that out in a moment. Up to the first highlight, the Hohe Bracht. I’m already at 15 corners. Down to Lennestadt. 25. After Oberhundem, I mess up for the first time. The cool serpentines demand 100 percent of my humble brain. 38? Or is it 40? Oh come on, they’ll have been 40 by now. Entrance to Bad Laasphe.

How do you actually pronounce it? Lahspe or Lahsfe? Uh, wait! How many curves did I count? For us, Bad Laasphe is the point of return. Just a few more meters and we would be in Hessen. The Germany Marathon only leads there in stage eleven, and here in North Rhine-Westphalia we still have a lot to do. Kahler Asten, Weser Uplands … Hey there! It’s already three in a moment, and we’ve barely made any headway. But the fun was so much bigger up to now. But fun was over in the Sauerland in January 2007. Hurricane Kyrill riveted so much wood here that the foresters would have needed a column of trucks from the North Cape to Cape Town to transport it. The wood stayed where it was, and the gashes of the storm can still be seen today. But that should also have advantages. A local tells us. “Some think we are backwoodsmen because it is so inaccessible here. This is of course nonsense. We always knew what was going on in the world. We just couldn’t see it. ”In fact, due to the deforestation, there are many panoramas today that simply did not exist for centuries. Not only from the Kahler Asten, the second highest mountain in North Rhine-Westphalia. Hardly anyone really wants to know the highest, the Langenberg. It just looks boring, is only 1.3 meters higher and much further from Winterberg, the center of après-bikers and downhill buffs.


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The thousandth curve in the Sauerland behind Oberhundem.

The waves of the 1000 official curves fade behind us, and the more unofficial ones of the Teutoburg Forest begin. Somewhere here, Hermann, the old Cheruscan, beat up the Romans in such a way that their desire for Germania was at first completely denied. Where the brawl actually took place, that’s why the experts beat each other up to this day. A flux compensator could help. Just 2003 years back and we would know.

One is arguable here to this day. The last few meters through the North Rhine-Westphalian hinterland lead us to the Koterberg. A telecommunications tower can be seen from afar over the horizon. In its shadow, super athletes, cruisers, enduro riders, simply everything that has two wheels and an engine crowd. To the chagrin of the villagers just below the meeting point. Several newspaper articles hung up at the Koterberghaus are devoted to the sometimes absurd struggle for the mountain. I tear myself off the papers and turn to Andy. He sits relaxed on one of the wooden barriers, lets warm fizzy water run down his throat and looks to the east. Wind turbines, somewhere further down the Weser, and in the distance the Harz shimmers. A summer the way it should be. A tour as it is in the book. And there it goes on.

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Travel time: 3 days. Distance covered: 560 kilometers.

Arrival / travel time
North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is Germany’s most populous federal state and number four in terms of area. Between Stuttgart and the state border of North Rhine-Westphalia there are 320 kilometers on the clock, from Hamburg it is 230 kilometers. The starting point of the stage through NRW is Schonau, south of Bad Muns-tereifel. The next motorway is the A1, exit Blankenheim. For example, those traveling through Rhineland-Palatinate can reach Schonau from Wershofen via Hummel. The low mountain regions Eifel, Siegerland and Sauerland are most likely to limit travel times. Sensitively low temperatures must be expected in spring and late autumn. Rainwear definitely belongs in your luggage. With all their beauty and driving attractiveness, the low mountain ranges belong to the rain-intensive parts of the country.

The distance
Yes, you have to nibble on that: tight 560 kilometers add up in NRW. The spectrum ranges from soft cruising in the Rhineland to the alpine hairpin bends on the Rhein-Weser Tower. In between, the Eifel foothills and snappy highlights in the Bergisches Land, the Siegerland, the Sauerland and the Teutoburg Forest beckon. It’s the perfect mix of action and relaxation.

Stay
Between Bigge and Listersee we were well looked after by Martin Lutticke in the “Landhotel Haus Dumicketal”. Martin drives his GS to the North Cape or the Ardèche and has a lot of tips ready. The prices start at 42.50 euros per person in a double room with breakfast, www.hausdumicketal.de

In Hoxter, the “Hotel Nieder-sachsen” offers stylish comfort from 80 euros in a single room. The bikes rest in the hotel’s own underground car park, www.hotelniedersachsen.de

In the beer garden of the “Hotel Corveyer Hof” (www.hotelcorveyerhof.de) good food is offered at fair prices. Those who prefer international cuisine to domestic cuisine will be made happy in the Spanish “Ritmo”. www.ritmo-hoexter.de

activities
“Star Trek” and “Star Wars” sympathizers will want to visit the imposing 100-meter radio telescope Effelsberg near Bad Munstereifel. www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

Nature lovers are in good hands in the New Eifel National Park. If you need a change of perspective, you can hardly avoid the Atta cave in Attendorn on the Biggesee.

The exact opposite can be done in Winterberg with Christoph Bayer’s microlight aircraft. Half an hour over the 1000 mountains of the Sauerland eases the cash register by 90 euros. Information at www.winterberg.de. The Bike Arena Sauerland (www.bike-arena.de) gets your muscles and adrenaline levels in shape, for example with mountain bike tours.

The homepage of the Teutoburger Forest (www.teutoburgerwald.de) contains information and routes for bikers.

cards
The Marco Polo map of North Rhine-Westphalia on a scale of 1: 200000 points all the way for 8.99 euros.

NRW
Capital: Dusseldorf
Area: 34088 km2
Foundation: August 23, 1946
Government: SPD / GREEN
Population: 17,836,000

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