Why this ride
From Bad Kissingen it runs 324 km to Bad Kissingen; allow about 4 h 51 of riding. It goes by way of Rosenbach Park, Watchtower WP 7/37 and back through Rosenbach Park.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Bad Kissingen and Watchtower WP 7/37
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 324 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 51
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Romantic Road
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.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 104 km
- Named road
- Romantic Road
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Bad Kissingen
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Bad Kissingen is where the day begins. Next is Rosenbach Park.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Rosenbach Park comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 7/37.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 166 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 7/37. Next is back through Rosenbach Park.
4. back through Rosenbach Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rosenbach Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Rosenbach Park, late in the day. Next is Bad Kissingen.
5. Bad Kissingen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bad Kissingen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Bad Kissingen. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Bad Kissingen to Rosenbach Park
Bad Kissingen → Rosenbach Park is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Rosenbach Park to Watchtower WP 7/37
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 to back through Rosenbach Park
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 to Bad Kissingen
back through Rosenbach Park → Bad Kissingen is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.