Print the page content is only available to registered and logged in users and only as a tourbook!

Cycle Tour Around the Great Belt

Travel report: Odense-Nyborg-Skælskør-Vordingborg-Onsevig-Svendborg-Odense

busy

 

Please wait - map data are loading

0100200
Elevation profile Cycle Tour Around the Great BeltNyborgStorebæltsbroenGavnø CastleRudkøbingValdemars SlotSchloss EgeskovH. C. Andersens Hus0100200050100150200250300350

Added on 29 Mar 2018,

on 05 Jun 2018

Cycle route metrics

planned

ridden

Total distance in km

336

336

Cumulative elevation gain in m

1.955

2.144

Avg. slope uphill in %

0,58

0,64

Cumulative elevation loss in m

1.954

2.049

GPS track data

Information about rights to the gps-track data

Rights owner

Ottocolor

Rights characteristic / license

cc0: Public Domain no Rights reserved

Link to the description of the license

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

GPX file uploaded

by Ottocolor on 04 Apr 2018

Track points in total

3.532

3.462

Track points per km (avg)

9

10

Start/endpoint

Start location

Odense, Region of Southern Denmark, DK (11 m NHN)

End location

Odense, Region of Southern Denmark, DK (12 m NHN)

Character

Four days cycle holiday alone in April 2018. Accommodation in my tent at camp sites. Transport by train from Nyborg t(Funen) o Korsoer (Zealand) and by ferry from Taars (Lolland) to Spodsbjerg (Langeland)

Information about copyright

Rights characteristic / license

by-sa: CREATIVE COMMONS Attribution-ShareAlike

Link to the description of the license

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

taken over / edited on

29 Mar 2018

taken over / edited by

Ottocolor

Landscape

I'll set out on this bicycle trip across Eastern Funen to the old city of Nyborg (Newcastle in translation, but everything is relative, you know). Here I have a look at the reconstruction of Nyborg Castle, which is to be restored as it stood in the middle ages. After the Great Belt crossing to Korsoer, I head south. On the trip, I will go through the southern Zealand landscape with its coastal cliffs with outer islands that form lagoons behind. Towns to be (shortly) visisted are the fruit and marmalade town of Skaelskoer, the summer town of Karrebaeksminde, the largish Naestved and Vordingborg with the medieval fortress ruins. Falster, where I spent a whole bicycle holiday in 2016, I go straight across to Lolland. This big flat moraine island has large forests and a lot of sugar beetlands. The tour passes Knuthenborg safari park and on to the bronze age mound of Birket Bavnehoej. With staggering 30m it's Lolland's highest point. My replanned stage goal will be a tiny camp site at a secluded bay on Norhthern Lolland, called Onsevig. Of towns on Lolland, I will have a look at Sakskoebing. Otherwise nature (and agriculture, as it is) will reign throughout. After the crossing to Langeland, the bike tour peters out with some island hopping, first Langeland traversely with the hatshaped hills, the tiny Siø and the hilly Taasinge. Svendborg has to do without me, before hitting the roof of the tour in the hills of Egebjerg, the counterpart of Svanninge hills further west. Route 55 will carry me safely back to Odense. Possibly I jump on the train from Svendborg at some point. All in all this promise to be four enjoyable vacation days in the saddle and in my tent at night. In mid-April, I probably will need my Estonian super sleeping bag from the Nordic cold wave in May last year. But i want to go low-budget, so anythin more luxurious than camping is no-go. In addition, I intend to cook my own food on my gas cooker. And drink water. Okay, the latter condition will surely not be met. But the former ones do. You bet.

Information about copyright

Rights characteristic / license

by-sa: CREATIVE COMMONS Attribution-ShareAlike

Link to the description of the license

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

taken over / edited on

30 Mar 2018 - 04 Apr 2018

taken over / edited by

Ottocolor

Travel to and from ...

No travel to and from! I'll bike all the way except the two Great Belt crossings out- and homebound.

Remarks

The trip was accomplished as planned, with only minor detours on Eastern Lolland in order to shorten it slightly.

Stages

61 km

Næsby-Skælskør

83 km

Skælskør-Vordingborg

83 km

Vordingborg-Onsevig

109 km

Onsevig-Næsby

Beds4Cyclists, worth visiting and infrastructure

Name and address

Latitude / Longitude

Phone
Fax
Mobile

Type of accommodation

Rating for cyclists

Route km
Dist. to route
Elevation

 

4 km
0,1 km
26 m

 

DK-5000 Odense

 

Hotel without restaurant (garni)

 

4 km
0,0 km
13 m

 

DK-5000 Odense

 

Hotel

 

37 km
0,3 km
8 m

DK-5800 Nyborg

 

Old town

Nyborg castle
Nyborg castle
Street in Nyborg
Street in Nyborg
Rampart and church
Rampart and church

Nyborg is a city in central Denmark, located in Nyborg Municipality on the island of Funen Wikipedia Icon and with a population of 16,577 (as of 1 January 2012). Nyborg is one of the 14 large municipalities created on 1 January 2007. This change boosted the population of Nyborg Municipality from around 18,000 to 31,009.

History

Nyborg was first mentioned in 1193 in the history of Denmark as Nyborg Castle, which still exists today, but the town itself was not mentioned before the year 1202. In the 17th century, Nyborg was one of three major, fortified towns in Denmark, together with Fredericia Wikipedia Icon and Copenhagen Wikipedia Icon. Each was placed near an important body of water - in Nyborg's case, the Great Belt Wikipedia Icon (Storebælt). In 1659 the city was captured by theSwedes and relieved by an expeditionary fleet sent by the Dutch, then Denmark's allies, commanded by admiral De Ruyter Wikipedia Icon.

In 1867 the fortress was abolished and the town expanded beyond the ramparts. Much of the town's southern ramparts were destroyed in this process and converted into residential areas. The western and much of the northern ramparts still exist and form the scene of an annual theatre known as Nyborg Voldspil, which is Denmark's oldest outdoor theater.

From 1183 to 1413 it was the gathering place for Danehoffet, which was the country's legislative and judicial assembly. Nyborg is therefore considered Denmark's capital during this period. Christian II of Denmark Wikipedia Icon was born at Nyborg Castle.

In 2005, plans about expanding Nyborg Harbour came to life and Nyborg Harbour, which previously connected Funen to Sealand with the old ferries (until 1996) now contains several large luxury-apartment buildings.

Information about copyright

Rights characteristic / license

by-sa: CREATIVE COMMONS Attribution-ShareAlike

Link to the description of the license

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Input taken over from:

Nyborg. (2013, March 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:27, April 7, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyborg&oldid=546860215

taken over / edited on

07 Apr 2013

taken over / edited by

Ottocolor

 

37 km
0,1 km
4 m

 

DK-5800 Nyborg

 

Tourist information

 

38 km
1,1 km
5 m

 

DK-5800 Nyborg

 

Hotel

 

busy

 


Close

Code snippet to link to Cycle Tour Around the Great Belt

If you want to link from your website to this cycle route / this tour, just copy the following code snippet, and set it at an appropriate location in your source code:

Close

Take over Cycle Tour Around the Great Belt

This feature allows you to edit the GPS track data and the description of the selected route.

This processing is performed on the original, not on a copy.

You will become the owner of this route!