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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An 89 km round trip from Osterburken - roughly 1 h 40 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fortlet Lehnenwiesen, Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the and back through Fortlet Lehnenwiesen. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Between the Odenwald and the Tauber country lies the Bauland, a high, open plateau of limestone, cornfields and small villages that most travellers cross without slowing down. Just south of Götzingen, among fields and woodland edges between Buchen and Osterburken, are the remains of a Roman building on the line of the Upper Germanic Limes. It is not a grand ruin, more a footprint in the ground, but it belongs to one of the best documented stretches of the frontier, the section that runs straight as a ruler through this part of northern Baden-Württemberg.
Read the complete Building remains south of Götzingen write-up.
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Building remains south of Götzingen is where the day begins. Next is Fortlet Lehnenwiesen.
Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, was born in Jagsthausen around 1480, and he is remembered for a rude phrase he supposedly shouted at an enemy, made famous by Goethe in his play about the knight. Jagsthausen's castle, where Götz grew up, hosts an open-air theatre festival every summer, and the iron hand, a prosthesis he wore after losing his right hand in battle, is displayed there. A few kilometres away, in the fields near Widdern, the fortlet of Lehnenwiesen was a small Roman post on the Upper Germanic Limes, part of the chain of forts and watchtowers that ran through this landscape.
Read the complete Fortlet Lehnenwiesen write-up.
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Fortlet Lehnenwiesen comes up about 22 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 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the. Next is back through Fortlet Lehnenwiesen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Lehnenwiesen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fortlet Lehnenwiesen, late in the day. Next is Building remains south of Götzingen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Building remains south of Götzingen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Building remains south of Götzingen. That is the ride.
Building remains south of Götzingen → Fortlet Lehnenwiesen is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Lehnenwiesen → Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the is 24 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 Fortlet Lehnenwiesen is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlet Lehnenwiesen → Building remains south of Götzingen is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.