Why this ride
A 259 km round trip from Sulzbach am Main - roughly 3 h 43 in the saddle. It goes by way of Fort Altheimer Strasse, Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 and back through Fort Altheimer Strasse.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p and Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 259 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 43
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p is where the day begins. Next is Fort Altheimer Strasse.
2. Fort Altheimer Strasse
Walldürn is a small town on the eastern edge of the Odenwald, where the hills of the forest give way to the open plateau of the Bauland, and the Roman frontier ran right through it. The Upper Germanic Limes followed a straight line here, and the town had a fort and a bathhouse, whose remains have been excavated and partly reconstructed. Fort Altheimer Strasse, named after the road where it was found, was one of the smaller installations along the line, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Fort Altheimer Strasse write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort Altheimer Strasse comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68.
3. Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Between Öhringen and Mainhardt, the Upper German Limes does something a Roman engineer must have been proud of: it runs dead straight for many kilometres, up hill and down dale, ignoring the terrain as if drawn with a ruler on a map. The watchtower sites numbered along this section lie on that line, in the Hohenlohe country of northern Württemberg, between the open farmland around Pfedelbach and the dark wooded hills of the Swabian-Franconian Forest.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68. Next is back through Fort Altheimer Strasse.
4. back through Fort Altheimer Strasse
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort Altheimer Strasse write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Fort Altheimer Strasse, late in the day. Next is Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p.
5. Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p to Fort Altheimer Strasse
Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p → Fort Altheimer Strasse is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort Altheimer Strasse to Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Fort Altheimer Strasse → Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 to back through Fort Altheimer Strasse
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 → back through Fort Altheimer Strasse is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort Altheimer Strasse to Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p
back through Fort Altheimer Strasse → Civil settlement of Niedernberg northern p is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.