CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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98 km from Frankfurt am Main to Frankfurt am Main, about 1 h 50 of riding. The stops in between: Building remains southwest of Saalburg, Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456, Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg and Fortlet Lochmühle.
26 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it — speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
10 km on Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg → Fortlet Lochmühle.
Frankfurt is the one German city with a skyline, and the locals have a nickname for it: Mainhattan. A cluster of glass towers rises from the north bank of the river Main, the banking district, and you can see it from the Taunus hills on clear days. The rest of the city is more modest than the towers suggest. The old centre was heavily bombed in the war and has been rebuilt in places, with the Römer, a medieval town hall with stepped gables, restored on its square and the Cathedral of St Bartholomew, where emperors were crowned, still standing by the river.
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Frankfurt is where the day begins. Next is Building remains southwest of Saalburg.
If you want to know what a Roman fort on the German frontier really looked like, the Saalburg is the place, and these building remains lie in the forest just southwest of it, part of the civilian and military landscape that grew up around the fort. The Saalburg itself was rebuilt at the beginning of the twentieth century on the orders of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was fascinated by Roman history and keen to present the German empire as the heir of Rome. The walls, gates, headquarters building and granaries were reconstructed on the original foundations, based on the archaeology of the time, and today the fort houses a museum full of finds from the frontier, along with workshops, a Roman garden and regular events with reenactors.
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Building remains southwest of Saalburg comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456.
The Saalburg is the Roman fort that Germany rebuilt. On the crest of the Taunus north of Bad Homburg, where the Limes crossed a pass, archaeologists excavated the remains of a fort in the nineteenth century, and between 1897 and 1907, with the enthusiastic support of Kaiser Wilhelm II, it was reconstructed with walls, gates, barracks and a headquarters building. Today it is a museum and archaeological park, and the civil settlement, or vicus, that grew up outside the fort lies east of the B 456 road. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site.
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about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg.
If you want to know what a Roman frontier fort actually looked like, this is the place. The Saalburg, on the ridge of the Taunus above Bad Homburg, is the only Limes fort in Germany rebuilt in full: walls, gates, towers, granary and the headquarters building, all standing again on their original foundations. The reconstruction was ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm II around 1900, who liked his Romans grand and imperial, and while archaeologists today debate some details, walking through the main gate is still a jolt.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg, about halfway. Next is Fortlet Lochmühle.
The Lochmühle is a small fortlet on the Limes in the Taunus, near Wehrheim and the famous Saalburg, and it guarded a spot where the frontier crossed the valley of the Erlenbach stream. Fortlets like this were small outposts, housing a handful of soldiers who watched the border and controlled traffic, and they formed a link between the watchtowers and the larger forts. Its remains are modest, but the location, in a quiet valley surrounded by forest, has a peaceful charm. The name comes from a nearby mill, now a popular leisure park for families with play areas and farm animals.
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Fortlet Lochmühle sits at 43 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456.
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about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456. Next is back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg.
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back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg, late in the day. Next is Frankfurt.
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The route ends here after 98 km.
Frankfurt → Building remains southwest of Saalburg is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 → Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg is 9 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg → Fortlet Lochmühle is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Lochmühle → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg is 10 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Saalburg → back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 is 9 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg → Frankfurt is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.