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 Bad Kissingen it runs 412 km to Bad Kissingen; allow about 6 h 03 of riding. On the way it passes Rosenbach Park, Watchtower WP 7/37, Fortlet Lehnenwiesen and Building remains south of the watchtower W. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 62 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Bad Kissingen is a spa town in the northern corner of Bavaria, in the valley of the Franconian Saale, between the Rhön hills and the Spessart. People have taken the waters here since the Middle Ages, and in the nineteenth century the town became one of the great resorts of Europe, visited by Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, by tsars and kings, and by Bismarck, who drafted his famous Kissinger Diktat in 1877. In 2021 UNESCO added the town to its list of the Great Spa Towns of Europe, alongside Baden-Baden, Bath, Karlsbad and others.
Read the complete Bad Kissingen write-up.
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Bad Kissingen is where the day begins. Next is Rosenbach Park.
Würzburg sits on the Main in lower Franconia, and the Rosenbach label puts you on its northern edge of green space, a few minutes from the old centre rather than out in open country. Take it as what it is, a pleasant city stop among the trams and one-way streets, and the real interest lies in the town around it.
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Rosenbach Park comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 7/37.
The Romans liked straight lines, and nowhere more than here. On the edge of Walldürn, in the hilly country between the Odenwald and the Tauber valley, runs the course of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, the frontier wall that marked the edge of the Roman Empire across what is now southern Germany. Watchtower WP 7/37 is one of hundreds of small posts that lined it, each within sight of the next, so that signals could be passed along the frontier. The Limes here famously runs almost dead straight for many kilometres, regardless of hills and valleys, a statement of Roman confidence and surveying skill.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 7/37 write-up.
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about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 7/37. Next is Fortlet Lehnenwiesen.
Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, was born in Jagsthausen around 1480, and he is remembered for a rude phrase he supposedly shouted at an enemy, made famous by Goethe in his play about the knight. Jagsthausen's castle, where Götz grew up, hosts an open-air theatre festival every summer, and the iron hand, a prosthesis he wore after losing his right hand in battle, is displayed there. A few kilometres away, in the fields near Widdern, the fortlet of Lehnenwiesen was a small Roman post on the Upper Germanic Limes, part of the chain of forts and watchtowers that ran through this landscape.
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Fortlet Lehnenwiesen, about halfway. Next is Building remains south of the watchtower W.
Mainhardt sits high in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, between Heilbronn and Schwäbisch Hall, on a wooded plateau that the Romans chose for one of the forts guarding their frontier. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes runs through here on its long, ruler-straight stretch heading south towards Welzheim, and along it stood watchtowers every few hundred metres, with small buildings nearby for the soldiers who manned them. The remains south of one of these towers are modest, low foundations in a clearing or under the forest floor, but they are part of the World Heritage frontier that runs for more than five hundred kilometres across Germany. The village has a small Roman museum that explains the fort and its garrison.
Read the complete Building remains south of the watchtower W write-up.
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Building remains south of the watchtower W sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fortlet Lehnenwiesen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Lehnenwiesen write-up.
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back through Fortlet Lehnenwiesen comes up about 248 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtower WP 7/37.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 7/37 write-up.
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about 285 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtower WP 7/37. Next is back through Rosenbach Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rosenbach Park write-up.
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back through Rosenbach Park, late in the day. Next is Bad Kissingen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bad Kissingen write-up.
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The route ends here after 412 km.
Bad Kissingen → Rosenbach Park is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rosenbach Park → Watchtower WP 7/37 is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 7/37 → Fortlet Lehnenwiesen is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Lehnenwiesen → Building remains south of the watchtower W is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains south of the watchtower W → back through Fortlet Lehnenwiesen is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlet Lehnenwiesen → back through Watchtower WP 7/37 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 7/37 → back through Rosenbach Park is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Rosenbach Park → Bad Kissingen is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.