Something different, Hessen / Kassel (Paderborn, sort of), Frankfurt, Heidelberg

Closer than the Alps and great for people heading across the North Sea to Rotterdam or even via Calais, this part of Germany is often overlooked in the rush to get to the Alps, the Harz and the Ardennes.

Unashamedly lifted from a German magazine, this might well be worth a look. If nothing else it might give an idea of a different way to get to Heidelberg.







The maps are good enough quality to zoom in on, so as to pick out the roads, their numbers and the towns. Certainly good enough to create it yourself. Failing that, download it from Kurviger, using the tour code. The numbered places on the map correspond to the ‘biker friendly’ hotels.


Get some more stuff on it here:

https://motorradstrassen.de/touren/erlebnisrouten/motorradstrasse-hessen

Yes, it’s in foreign but there are enough pictures. Scroll and tap around, you can’t break it. Up will pop the Kurviger route, without you having to do anything more:

https://kurviger.de/motorradstrasse...929&point=50.511898,8.797646&point=50.53569,8

How easy is that?

All done originally, just by subscribing to some German magazines, via Readly. Then by thumbing through them, whilst still not speaking a word of the language.

PS See also the Sauerland thread:

https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/515407-Sauerland-(including-the-Dam-Busters)

It really is an area worth visiting.

After a recommendation on here, I made a point of passing through the area in the first map on the way to and from Goslar in the Harz. Lots of quiet roads running through forest and river valleys. Somewhere near Siegen is easy to get to from Calais. Either use it as a base to explore the area or just ride some of the roads on the way further east.

On the way out my group had a few days in Bad Bertrich in the Eifel and just passed through, stopping in Bad Berleburg for some food on the way to Goslar. An enjoyable ride and a good way to avoid the autobahn roadworks. On the way back I was travelling solo and wiggled my way through the valleys without any real plan other than to get near Siegen for an overnight. I ended up in the charming, small town of Freudenberg at Hotel Zum Alten Fleckerei https://goo.gl/maps/71P84TtiSUfhzBTF6 - a traditional, German boozer with rooms.



Apparently, from the google maps link, Freudenstadt is on the German-Dutch Orange route so another for you to research Richard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang...(Dutch: Oranje,and nine German federal states.

Thank you, Wessie.

I remember a thread where some bod was asking for a miles long route to Freudenstadt but he was wasn’t very clear which one, as there are several.

I am warming up to riding either the German ‘tree lined’ route or the German ‘motorcycle route’, the latter at 10,000 kms would see a complete tyre change before the end and maybe an en-route service, too. I have cut the ‘tree lined’ route into BaseCamp, just needing to do the same with the ‘motorcycle’ route. The 10,000 kms of course excludes getting from home to the start and back again from the end. I have lapped Germany around the outside edge, so something sort of down the middle, would seem like a good idea. The bods went to the trouble to create the routes, it woukd be rude not to use them.