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 77 km round trip from Butzbach - roughly 1 h 20 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber, Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Butzbach is the sort of town that gets overlooked because it sits beside the motorway and the Frankfurt sprawl, and that is a pity, because the old centre is a proper half-timbered market town with a square worth a coffee. About a kilometre from the middle, the Romans once had a fort on the Limes, and the civil settlement, the vicus, grew up beside it. That is the story behind the label: soldiers first, then traders, wives, craftsmen and innkeepers who followed the pay.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Butzbach write-up.
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Civil settlement of Butzbach is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber.
Friedberg's castle stands on a basalt ridge above the Wetterau, a walled enclosure so large it is almost a town of its own, with a tall round tower, the Adolfsturm, rising above the trees. What most visitors walking through the castle gate do not know is that they are standing on a Roman fort. The legions chose this same ridge in the first century AD, and a fort with a civil settlement grew up here, linked by road to the Limes a few kilometres to the north and west.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82.
Between two neighbouring watchtowers the Romans left a short piece of frontier that today looks like almost nothing, and that is part of its charm. The line between Wachtposten 4/81 and 4/82 runs through the fields of the Wetterau east of Frankfurt, close to Echzell, where the earth wall and ditch of the Limes can still be traced as a long, low swelling in the farmland, sometimes crowned by a hedge or a row of trees that have grown on it. Beneath the field, archaeologists have found postholes of the palisade, which stood about three metres high and was made of split oak trunks.
Read the complete Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82 write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber, late in the day. Next is Civil settlement of Butzbach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Butzbach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Civil settlement of Butzbach. That is the ride.
Civil settlement of Butzbach → Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber → Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber → Civil settlement of Butzbach is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.