CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 299 km round trip from Sulzbach am Main - roughly 4 h 24 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl, Building remains south of Götzingen, Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe and Watchtowers WP 7/38 to 8/10 including fort. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Niedernberg is a quiet village on the left bank of the Main, a few kilometres downstream from Aschaffenburg, where the river was the Roman frontier. The Upper German-Raetian Limes, after running across the Odenwald, used the Main as its boundary between Großkrotzenburg and Miltenberg, and a fort with a civil settlement stood at Niedernberg, guarding the river line. The northern part of the civil settlement is listed separately as part of the UNESCO site. There is little to see above ground, as the remains lie under fields and houses, but the location by the river makes the Roman logic clear.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p write-up.
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Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl.
At Miltenberg, the Roman frontier did something unusual: it stopped being a wall and became a river. North of the town, the Main served as the frontier for some fifty kilometres, guarded by forts and watchtowers along its western bank, and here, where the river bends, the land frontier began again, heading south through the Odenwald. The watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 belong to this stretch, and while most are only traces in fields and forests, they are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Romans built forts at Miltenberg, too, and some of their finds are displayed in the town museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Building remains south of Götzingen.
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.
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about 68 km into the recorded legs you reach Building remains south of Götzingen. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe.
Miltenberg is one of those German towns that seem almost too pretty to be real, with half-timbered houses leaning over the cobbled streets, a market square sloping down toward the river, a castle on the hill above and the Main flowing slowly past. The Romans were here first. Two forts guarded this point on the frontier, one near the old town and another to the east, where the Limes left the river and ran overland through the Odenwald, and the sites, with their civilian settlements, are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. A museum in the town displays finds from the forts.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 7/38 to 8/10 including fort.
The Odenwald Limes is famous for its stubborn straightness. For about eighty kilometres, from the Main near Miltenberg south to the Neckar near Neckarburken, the Romans drew their frontier almost as a ruler line across the wooded hills, ignoring valleys and ridges, and surveyors today still marvel at it. The watchtowers numbered 7/38 to 8/10 belong to this stretch, including a small fort, and the line here passes through the countryside around Buchen, in the Neckar-Odenwald district of Baden-Württemberg, a quiet region of beech forest, meadows and farms. The wooden towers of the first phase were later replaced by stone, and the palisade was supported by a bank and ditch that survive in the woods as a long, shallow trough.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 7/38 to 8/10 including fort write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 7/38 to 8/10 including fort sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe comes up about 190 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Building remains south of Götzingen.
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about 228 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Building remains south of Götzingen. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl, late in the day. Next is Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p write-up.
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The route ends here after 299 km.
Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p → Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl → Building remains south of Götzingen is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains south of Götzingen → Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe → Watchtowers WP 7/38 to 8/10 including fort is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 7/38 to 8/10 including fort → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe → back through Building remains south of Götzingen is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains south of Götzingen → back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl → Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.