CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 238 km round trip from Maulbronn - roughly 3 h 56 in the saddle. The stops in between: Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung, Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim, Watchtowers WP 12/39 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim. The line favours views over speed.
The monks who founded Maulbronn were Cistercians, and they believed that a monastery should be a self-sufficient world, with its own mill, workshops, fields and, above all, its own water. The abbey, founded in 1147, is today the best-preserved medieval monastery north of the Alps, and a large part of its genius lies in the network of ponds, canals and ditches that the monks dug to collect water from the surrounding hills, drive mills and flush drains. The connecting ditch system is part of that story, a quiet piece of engineering that has lasted for nearly nine hundred years. UNESCO inscribed the monastery complex in 1993.
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Connecting ditch system is where the day begins. Next is Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung.
In 1927, on a hillside overlooking Stuttgart, a group of the most radical architects in Europe built an entire housing estate in a few months as an exhibition of what modern living could look like. The Weissenhof Estate, organised by the Deutscher Werkbund under the direction of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, brought together Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P. Oud and others, and their flat-roofed, white-walled houses became a manifesto for the International Style.
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Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-.
Welzheim sits up in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, a rolling upland of spruce, beech, deep stream valleys and old sawmills east of Stuttgart, and the Romans chose it for the same reason the forest still feels remote today: it was the edge. The Upper German-Raetian Limes ran dead straight through these woods, and Welzheim had not one fort but two, an east and a west fort, with a civilian settlement of traders, craftsmen and soldiers' families packed around them. The east fort has a reconstructed gate and a small archaeological park that gives you a good sense of scale, and the whole frontier line is part of a UNESCO site.
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about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/39.
Iggingen is a small village on the plateau above the Rems valley, a few kilometres east of Schwäbisch Gmünd, and like many villages in this part of Württemberg it has a Roman frontier running through its fields. The site labelled Watchtower WP 12/39 sits on the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the edge of Roman Raetia, and from here the line runs eastwards towards Aalen, the largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps, now home to an excellent Limes museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/39 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 12/39, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is Connecting ditch system.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Connecting ditch system write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Connecting ditch system closes the day.
Connecting ditch system → Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung → Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- → Watchtowers WP 12/39 is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/39 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- → back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung → Connecting ditch system is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.