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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A 462 km round trip from Bad Kissingen - roughly 7 h 06 in the saddle. The stops in between: Rosenbach Park, Watchtower WP 7/37, Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur and Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 104 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.
Read the complete Rosenbach Park write-up.
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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 166 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 7/37. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur.
For a stretch of about fifty kilometres the Romans let the River Main do the work of a wall. Between Miltenberg and Grosskrotzenburg, the frontier of the Upper Germanic Limes followed the river instead of running as a palisade across country, and a chain of forts sat along its west bank. Trennfurt, a village now part of Klingenberg am Main, was one of them: a fort with its civilian settlement, the vicus, where traders, craftsmen and soldiers' families lived. It is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and as with many Limes sites, most of what survives lies under fields and gardens rather than standing proud.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
Walldürn sits on the high, rolling plateau where the Odenwald meets the Bauland, a gentle landscape of fields, woods and small towns in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg. The Romans came here in the second century AD, when the Upper German Limes was pushed forward to a new line running almost straight through the countryside, and they built a small fort at Walldürn with a civil settlement beside it, where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. The remains of a bath house have been excavated and conserved, and the line of the frontier, with its watchtowers and palisade, runs nearby. The Upper German-Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, became a UNESCO site in 2005.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn sits at 195 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur comes up about 269 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 303 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 462 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 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 7/37 → Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur → Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur → back through Watchtower WP 7/37 is 34 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 97 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.