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In 2021 I suggested a campaign to guerilla garden the area with Cupressus Sempervirens tree seeds to propagate a Tuscan landscape to compliment the Göttingen white roads and I also suggested surreptitiously replacing asphalt with cobbles.

In Gö most cobbles or Steinweg have been swept away in the march of progress. In Northern France or Flanders many stretches of cobbles remain and are protected whilst the myriad of interconnecting farm roads (Feldweg) in the Gö region are for the most part gravel, asphalt or Betonweg.

Gö Medieval Cobbles perserved

The Gö Gravel Feldweg Omloop rides feature sectors of cobbles although others exist in the city.

Not part of the Gö Feldweg Omloop routes are Bunsenstraße in West Stadt (not pictured), which is wonderful, as are the cobbled climbs of Bertha-von-Suttner-Straße and Sandersbeek/Barbarastraße at Zietenterrassen. Or there is the Kopfsteinpflaster Karousel. My real love is at Kerstlingeröder Feld on a long-abandoned stone/cobbled road that I like to think was once possibly the high street of the lost village of Klein Kerstlingeröder Feld. I do ride them regularly, but they are not in the right location to be useable for the Omloop´s.

Remnants of Steinweg can still be found – here under gravel

The Gö Feldweg Omloop cobbled sections are not as rough or as long as Paris Roubaix or the Tour of Flanders, but they are hard enough to shake your bike and your teeth loose, nonetheless.

In April 6/7, 2024, the women´s and men´s Paris Roubaix will be held, and, on the Saturday, there is the Die Hölle des Ostens held near Halle, Germany.

The latter only allows bikes with a maximum 28m tyres width – https://upcycling-team.de/hoelle-des-ostens#info

The main picture is of cobbles near Bovenden and those below are from the Gö Feldweg Omloop´s and elsewhere. Gö ride them!

Gö Feldweg Omloop Home