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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From Nürnberg it runs 201 km to Nürnberg; allow about 3 h 13 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtower WP 14/28, Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the, Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen and fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh.
Nuremberg wears its history heavily and with some honesty. The old town sits inside a ring of walls on both banks of the Pegnitz, crowned by the Kaiserburg, the imperial castle on its sandstone ridge, where the Holy Roman emperors held court. In the late Middle Ages the city was one of the richest in Germany, a centre of trade, craft and invention, and the home of the painter Albrecht Dürer, whose house you can still visit, as well as of the toy-makers, gingerbread bakers and instrument makers who made it famous.
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Nuremberg is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 14/28.
Near the Franconian town of Pleinfeld, the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the frontier of the province of Raetia, crossed a landscape of woods, fields and small rivers, and a watchtower stood here, one of hundreds along the line. Watchtower WP 14/28 is now a low mound or reconstructed foundation, but it is part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. The frontier here was a stone wall, known locally as the Teufelsmauer, the devil's wall, because medieval villagers could not believe that humans had built it.
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Watchtower WP 14/28 comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Here the frontier changes character. West of the Franconian lakes the Romans built the Raetian Limes not as a palisade but, in its final form, as a stone wall, a metre or so thick and perhaps three high, running across Middle Franconia toward the Danube. Medieval villagers who found its rubble in their fields had no idea who had built it and called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, which tells you how thoroughly the empire had been forgotten. The watchtowers numbered in this section sat along that wall in the farmland around Pfofeld and Gunzenhausen, close to where the line crosses the Altmühl valley.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
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about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen.
Ellingen is a small town that punches well above its weight. Its centre is dominated by a vast baroque palace built by the Teutonic Order, the German crusading knights who later became a religious and administrative order, and who ran a commandery here for centuries. The palace, with its church, courtyards and gardens, is far grander than you would expect in such a small place. Just outside the town, the Romans had an earlier presence: a fort called Sablonetum stood here on the Raetian Limes, with a civil settlement beside it, guarding the frontier as it crossed the countryside north of Weißenburg. Its outline has been marked in the fields, and it is part of the World Heritage site of the Upper German-Raetian Limes.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen, about halfway. Next is fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh.
The Romans called it Iciniacum, and for a century and a half it was home to a cavalry unit guarding the Raetian frontier in what is now Middle Franconia. The fort at Theilenhofen, near Gunzenhausen in Bavaria, lay just behind the Limes, the frontier wall that here was built of stone, running across the landscape from the Danube toward the Main. Today there is little above ground, but information panels by the site and the line of the fort traced in the fields help visitors picture it. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005.
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fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen comes up about 114 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
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about 134 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the. Next is back through Watchtower WP 14/28.
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Read the complete Watchtower WP 14/28 write-up.
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back through Watchtower WP 14/28, late in the day. Next is Nuremberg.
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Read the complete Nuremberg write-up.
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The route ends here after 201 km.
Nuremberg → Watchtower WP 14/28 is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 14/28 → Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen → fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen → back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → back through Watchtower WP 14/28 is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 14/28 → Nuremberg is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.