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 305 km round trip from Brühl - roughly 6 h 29 in the saddle. The stops in between: Iversheim, Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1, Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the and Watchtower WP 1/73. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
38 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it — speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
For about 49 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Clemens August of Bavaria, prince-elector and archbishop of Cologne in the eighteenth century, loved two things above all: hunting with falcons and building in the latest style. At Brühl, just south of Cologne, he created two of the finest rococo buildings in Germany. Augustusburg Palace, his summer residence, has a staircase designed by Balthasar Neumann that is one of the masterpieces of the period, a whirl of marble, stucco and frescoes, and a formal French garden that stretches toward the forest. Falkenlust, a smaller hunting lodge at the end of a long avenue, was built for falconry, with a delightful interior decorated with tiles and lacquerwork. The two castles were listed by UNESCO in 1984.
Read the complete Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at write-up.
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Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at is where the day begins. Next is Iversheim.
Iversheim is a village in the valley of the Erft, at the northern edge of the Eifel, just downstream from the old spa town of Bad Münstereifel. It is known for one thing: a Roman lime-burning works, one of the best preserved in Europe. The Romans built a series of kilns here to burn limestone from the surrounding hills into quicklime, which was used to make mortar for the forts, towns and roads of the province of Lower Germany. The kilns were worked by detachments of soldiers from the Rhine legions, as inscriptions found on the site show.
Read the complete Iversheim write-up.
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Iversheim comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1.
The Kottenforst is a big, flat-topped wooded ridge south-west of Bonn, an island of oak and hornbeam in a landscape of fields and commuter towns. It was a hunting forest of the Electors of Cologne, and the straight avenues that cut through it, still named Allee, were laid out in the eighteenth century so that a hunting party could ride after game, or follow falcons, in a precise geometric pattern. Elector Clemens August, who built the Augustusburg palace at Brühl and the little hunting lodge of Falkenlust beside it, loved heron hunting with falcons, and the avenues were part of that grand and slightly absurd game.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 write-up.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
Here is where the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the longest stretch of Roman frontier in Europe, begins. The Romans started the line at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and ran it up over the hills of the Westerwald, then on through the Taunus and beyond for more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube. The section with watchtowers numbered WP 1/11 to 1/20 follows the first climb away from the river through the forests above Rheinbrohl, Hammerstein and Niederbreitbach. Most of the towers survive only as low mounds of stone in the woods, but the course of the frontier ditch and rampart can often be traced on foot, and there are information boards and a few reconstructions along the way.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the, about halfway. Next is Watchtower WP 1/73.
The Roman frontier in Germany starts at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and climbs into the hills of the Westerwald, and Watchtower WP 1/73, near Hillscheid, belongs to that first stretch. The numbers tell you where you are: section one, tower seventy-three. All that survives is a low mound in the woods, but in the second and third centuries it was a stone tower with a view over the frontier line and, behind it, the palisade and ditch that ran across the landscape. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes has been part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire since 2005, and this is where it all begins.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/73 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/73 sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the comes up about 200 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 write-up.
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about 240 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1. Next is back through Iversheim.
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Read the complete Iversheim write-up.
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back through Iversheim, late in the day. Next is Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 305 km.
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at → Iversheim is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Iversheim → Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 → Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → Watchtower WP 1/73 is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/73 → back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 → back through Iversheim is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Iversheim → Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.