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 324 km round trip from Hengstdal - roughly 4 h 31 in the saddle. On the way it passes Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1, Neuss-Koenenlager and back through Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Romans were water engineers, and the Berg en Dal aqueduct, near Nijmegen, is a trace of that skill in the Dutch landscape. Nijmegen was a major Roman centre, called Noviomagus, with a legion fortress on the Hunerberg and a town that grew beside it, and it needed a good water supply. The solution was to tap springs in the hills to the east, in the hills around Berg en Dal, and carry the water in a channel for several kilometres. Remains have been found near Louisedal, in the form of stone foundations and traces of the channel.
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Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal is where the day begins. Next is Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1.
The Rhine at Wesel is broad and powerful, the main artery of northwestern Europe, and in Roman times it was the frontier of the empire. The Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021, ran along the river from the Alps to the North Sea, with forts, camps and watchtowers guarding the crossings. At Flüren, on the edge of Wesel, archaeologists have found traces of Roman activity on the Flürener Feld, probably a temporary camp or military installation linked to campaigns across the river into Germania. Nothing is visible on the surface, but the site sits on the edge of the Rhine plain, with the river and its floodplain stretching away to the horizon.
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Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1 comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is Neuss-Koenenlager.
On the southern edge of Neuss, in a residential area near the Rhine, lies one of the most important Roman military sites in Germany, though you would hardly know it from the surface. This was Novaesium, a legionary fortress that housed thousands of soldiers for much of the first century, and it is known as the Koenenlager after Constantin Koenen, the local archaeologist who excavated it systematically in the late nineteenth century. His work revealed the layout of an entire legionary camp, with headquarters, barracks, granaries and a hospital, and it became a model for Roman military archaeology. The site is part of the Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Neuss-Koenenlager. Next is back through Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1, late in the day. Next is Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal. That is the ride.
Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal → Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1 is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1 → Neuss-Koenenlager is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Neuss-Koenenlager → back through Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1 is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 1 → Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Louisedal is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.