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 Buchen in Odenwald it runs 103 km to Buchen in Odenwald; allow about 2 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41, Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the and back through Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Odenwald is old, rounded country, a forested upland between the Rhine and the Main, and the Limes crosses its eastern edge in a line so straight that it looks drawn with a ruler. Near Gotzingen, a village in the Buchen district of Baden-Wurttemberg, the frontier ran past a small Roman building that archaeologists found in the fields. The remains are the foundations of a small military station or a farm building, in a place where the soldiers lived close to the line. It is a modest site, but it shows that the frontier was more than a wall.
Read the complete Building remains north of Götzingen write-up.
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Building remains north of Götzingen is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41.
Somewhere between Walldürn and the hills north of Stuttgart, the Roman surveyors drew a line on the map and simply refused to bend it. For about eighty kilometres, the Upper Germanic Limes runs almost perfectly straight across hill and valley, one of the most remarkable feats of ancient surveying in Europe. The watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 near Osterburken and Adelsheim lie on that straight stretch, and like the rest of the frontier they are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Most are now low mounds in fields and woods, but here and there you will find a reconstructed tower or a stretch of wall to give you an idea of what it looked like.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the.
For about eighty kilometres through northern Württemberg, the Roman frontier runs in a nearly perfectly straight line, ignoring hills, valleys and rivers as if someone had drawn it with a ruler on a map. Surveyors still argue about how the Romans managed it. The stretch with watchtowers 9/14 to 9/32, near Öhringen in the Hohenlohe region, lies along this remarkable line, and Öhringen itself grew from Roman forts, two of them, which guarded the frontier here. The line is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and the Limes trail follows it through fields and forests.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the write-up.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41, late in the day. Next is Building remains north of Götzingen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Building remains north of Götzingen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Building remains north of Götzingen. That is the ride.
Building remains north of Götzingen → Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 → Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the → back through Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 → Building remains north of Götzingen is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.