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 Neustadt an der Donau it runs 268 km to Neustadt an der Donau; allow about 4 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site of Burgsalach, Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 and back through Fort site of Burgsalach. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This part of the ride is 74 km of Bad Gögging - Heilbad → Fort site of Burgsalach.
Bad Gogging is a spa town, and it has been one for nearly two thousand years. The Romans found hot sulphur springs here, in the Danube plain between Abensberg and Neustadt, and built a bathhouse beside the fort of Abusina, a short distance away. The spring water still rises, smelling of eggs, and the modern spa uses it for treatments. Excavated Roman baths are displayed in the town, and the heating channels and pools give a good idea of how the Romans relaxed after a day on the frontier.
Read the complete Bad Gögging - Heilbad write-up.
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Bad Gögging - Heilbad is where the day begins. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
The small fortlet at Burgsalach stood on the Raetian Limes, the eastern section of Rome's frontier in Germany. Dating from a late phase of the frontier, it had walls of stone and was compact and well defended, more like a small castle than the usual timber watchtower, and its name lives on in the village of Burgsalach nearby. The outline of the walls can still be traced on the ground, and like the rest of the frontier it is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, in the hills of Middle Franconia, the Raetian Limes was not a palisade but a stone wall, which local legend later attributed to the Devil himself, calling it the Teufelsmauer.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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Fort site of Burgsalach comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15.
Dinkelsbühl looks like a stage set, and the people who live there have worked hard to keep it that way. The old town, with its ring of walls, towers and gates, its half-timbered houses and the huge Gothic church of St George, survived the wars and the bombing that destroyed so many German towns, and it is one of the best preserved medieval towns on the Romantic Road. Each July the Kinderzeche, a festival that recalls the story of local children who saved the town during the Thirty Years' War, fills the streets with costumes and music.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 134 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15. Next is back through Fort site of Burgsalach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach, late in the day. Next is Bad Gögging - Heilbad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bad Gögging - Heilbad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Bad Gögging - Heilbad. That is the ride.
Bad Gögging - Heilbad → Fort site of Burgsalach is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fort site of Burgsalach → Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 → back through Fort site of Burgsalach is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach → Bad Gögging - Heilbad is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.