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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196 km from Hengstdal to Hengstdal, about 3 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Till, Xanten-CUT, Moers-Asberg and back through Xanten-CUT. 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 Swartendijk stretch lies on the quiet side of the hills, away from the villas and museums of Berg en Dal. This is where the Heilig Land Stichting, the Holy Land Foundation, was set up in the nineteenth century by Dutch Catholics, who built an enormous religious theme park with replicas of biblical sites, a Golgotha, a Jordan river and a Holy Sepulchre, in the woods and hills near the German border. It still exists, though it now has the air of a very large and slightly surreal garden, and it stands as a reminder that these slopes have been a place of pilgrimage as well as war.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk write-up.
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Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk is where the day begins. Next is Till.
The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.
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Till comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Xanten-CUT.
Xanten is an old Roman town that still behaves like a small, cosy market town on the Lower Rhine, and right next to it lies one of the largest archaeological parks in Germany. Colonia Ulpia Traiana, CUT for short, was founded around AD 100 under the emperor Trajan, who gave it the rank of a colonia and his family name. At its height it was a walled city of several thousand people, the second most important Roman city in the province of Lower Germany after Cologne.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Xanten-CUT. Next is Moers-Asberg.
Asberg is a quiet district on the southern edge of Moers, on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, and beneath its houses and fields lies the Roman fort of Asciburgium, one of the earliest military bases on the Rhine frontier. It was founded around the time of the emperor Augustus or soon after, garrisoned by cavalry and auxiliary troops, and abandoned toward the end of the first century, when the Rhine shifted its course and moved away from the fort. The site is now part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site, and although there is little to see above ground, information boards and outlines help you imagine the scene.
Read the complete Moers-Asberg write-up.
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Moers-Asberg, about halfway. Next is back through Xanten-CUT.
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Read the complete Xanten-CUT write-up.
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back through Xanten-CUT sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Till.
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Read the complete Till write-up.
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back through Till comes up about 163 km into the recorded legs. Next is Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk closes the day.
Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk → Till is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → Xanten-CUT is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xanten-CUT → Moers-Asberg is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moers-Asberg → back through Xanten-CUT is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xanten-CUT → back through Till is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Till → Berg en Dal-aqueduct | Swartendijk is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.