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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255 km from Alpen to Alpen, about 3 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: Moers-Asberg, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in, Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm and back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in. The line favours views over speed.
On the flat farmland of the Lower Rhine, between Alpen and Rheinberg, there is little to catch the eye: fields of maize and potatoes, poplars along ditches, brick farmhouses and the occasional windmill. Yet this was once the edge of the Roman world. The Rhine formed the frontier of the empire, and along its banks the Romans built legionary fortresses, forts, watchtowers and temporary camps. Alpen-Drüpt is one of the sites included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021; like many on the list, it survives mainly below ground, known from aerial photographs and excavations rather than standing ruins.
Read the complete Alpen-Drüpt write-up.
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Alpen-Drüpt is where the day begins. Next is Moers-Asberg.
Asberg is a quiet district on the southern edge of Moers, on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, and beneath its houses and fields lies the Roman fort of Asciburgium, one of the earliest military bases on the Rhine frontier. It was founded around the time of the emperor Augustus or soon after, garrisoned by cavalry and auxiliary troops, and abandoned toward the end of the first century, when the Rhine shifted its course and moved away from the fort. The site is now part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site, and although there is little to see above ground, information boards and outlines help you imagine the scene.
Read the complete Moers-Asberg write-up.
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Moers-Asberg comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
The headframe of Shaft XII at Zollverein, with its red steel lattice and double wheels, is the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr, and it is easy to see why. Designed by the architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer and opened in 1932, the shaft and its surrounding buildings were built in a clean, functional style influenced by the Bauhaus, and it was hailed as the most beautiful coal mine in the world. At its peak, Zollverein was one of the largest and most productive mines in Europe, and the adjacent coking plant processed coal into coke for the steel industry. The mine closed in 1986, the coking plant in 1993, and UNESCO listed the complex in 2001.
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about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm.
Neuss has been a garrison town for two thousand years, and it still carries the Roman name in a shortened form: Novaesium, the legionary fortress that stood on the Rhine near the mouth of the Erft, was one of the oldest Roman military sites in Germany, founded in the days of Augustus. The Rhine was the frontier here, the Lower Germanic Limes, with no wall but a river, fortresses and watchtowers like the one at Reckberg, and the whole line was added to the UNESCO list in 2021.
Read the complete Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm write-up.
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Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm, about halfway. Next is back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in write-up.
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back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in sits at 155 km, about halfway. Next is back through Moers-Asberg.
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Read the complete Moers-Asberg write-up.
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back through Moers-Asberg comes up about 229 km into the recorded legs. Next is Alpen-Drüpt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Alpen-Drüpt write-up.
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Alpen-Drüpt closes the day.
Alpen-Drüpt → Moers-Asberg is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moers-Asberg → Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm → back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → back through Moers-Asberg is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moers-Asberg → Alpen-Drüpt is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.