Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany
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Long, gentle downhills
Busy industrial towns and old charming ones
34 miles (54 km)
Total so far: 1,022 miles (1,644 km)
Ascent: 1372 ft (418 m); Descent: 1595 ft (486 m)
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- World > Europe > Germany > Baden-Wurttemberg > Laufenburg – map
- World > Europe > Germany > Baden-Wurttemberg > Bad Sackingen – map
Today we got our downhill cruise. We stayed on the German side and had all the way to Waldshut excellent bicycle path and a lot of nice downhill with an easy gradient. It’s perhaps not as attractive as the route going through Switzerland, but it sure is fun to cycle.
Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany-bike path
Waldshut was a mess. It is a bigger town with congested traffic. Construction of roads had the bikeways closed and the roads closed and the signs down. It must’ve taken us an hour to work our way through the town and out the other side.
Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany-Waldshut
There have been a lot of sections with heavy traffic. But for the most part, we’ve had a very nice bike path right next to the main Highway.
We are following Euro Velo route 15. Many times there are no 15 signs, just a green bicycle with an arrow pointing in a certain direction. We did have one longer section of gravel, but it was packed and small in size compared to the gravel on the Swiss side the day before.
After Waldshut, there’s quite a bit more industry along the route on the German side.
Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany-bike path-Industry
Of course we don’t know anything about the Swiss side.
The nicest town after that is Laufenburg on both sides of the River. On the Swiss side, it’s an old walled town and it’s got the narrow streets cobblestones with a wonderful buildings.
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- Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany-Laufenburg
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- Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany-bike path-Rhine River
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- Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany-bike path
Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany-unknown church
We haven’t experienced the overwhelming numbers of tourists as we traveled through this part of the world. It’s been very quiet; there are tourists in the very popular towns because they are so picturesque, but it is not an overwhelming feeling of tourism in the highest part of the season. Perhaps the economy has brought tourism to a lower-level, or perhaps cold weather in Germany and Switzerland and Europe in general during this summer has caused tourism to drop.
Bad Sackingen, another charming town was almost empty of tourism when we arrived.
Lienheim-Bad Sackingen-Germany-Bad Sackingen
