Why this ride
From Dormagen it runs 246 km to Dormagen; allow about 3 h 48 of riding. The stops in between: Neuss-Koenenlager, Krefeld-Gellep, Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm and Duisburg-Werthausen.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Dormagen and Duisburg-Werthausen
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 246 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 48
- 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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Scenic road chapters
Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm → Duisburg-Werthausen
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 37 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 41 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Dormagen
Dormagen is not the sort of place that ends up on postcards, and it does not try to be. It is a working town of some sixty thousand on the left bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf, dominated on its northern side by a huge chemical park whose pipes and stacks glow at night. Yet the name itself comes from Roman times: Durnomagus was a fort on the Lower German Limes, the Rhine frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and a cavalry unit was stationed here to patrol the river and the road along it.
Read the complete Dormagen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Dormagen is where the day begins. Next is Neuss-Koenenlager.
2. Neuss-Koenenlager
On the southern edge of Neuss, in a residential area near the Rhine, lies one of the most important Roman military sites in Germany, though you would hardly know it from the surface. This was Novaesium, a legionary fortress that housed thousands of soldiers for much of the first century, and it is known as the Koenenlager after Constantin Koenen, the local archaeologist who excavated it systematically in the late nineteenth century. His work revealed the layout of an entire legionary camp, with headquarters, barracks, granaries and a hospital, and it became a model for Roman military archaeology. The site is part of the Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Neuss-Koenenlager write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Neuss-Koenenlager comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Krefeld-Gellep.
3. Krefeld-Gellep
Most people pass Krefeld-Gellep without a second thought, because the view is dominated by the harbour of Uerdingen, chemical works and Rhine barges. Yet this is one of the most important Roman and early medieval sites on the Lower Rhine. The Roman fort here was called Gelduba, and it belongs to the Lower German Limes, the frontier along the river that UNESCO recognised in 2021. Tacitus mentions Gelduba in his account of the Batavian revolt of 69 and 70 AD, when legions and rebels fought around the camp, and archaeologists have found traces of that violence in the ground.
Read the complete Krefeld-Gellep write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 47 km into the recorded legs you reach Krefeld-Gellep. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm.
4. Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm
Neuss has been a garrison town for two thousand years, and it still carries the Roman name in a shortened form: Novaesium, the legionary fortress that stood on the Rhine near the mouth of the Erft, was one of the oldest Roman military sites in Germany, founded in the days of Augustus. The Rhine was the frontier here, the Lower Germanic Limes, with no wall but a river, fortresses and watchtowers like the one at Reckberg, and the whole line was added to the UNESCO list in 2021.
Read the complete Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm, about halfway. Next is Duisburg-Werthausen.
5. Duisburg-Werthausen
Werthausen sits on the left bank of the Rhine in Duisburg, across the river from the steelworks, harbour cranes and bridges of one of Europe's great industrial cities. It is an unexpected place to look for Rome, but the Lower Rhine was the frontier of the Roman Empire for centuries, and the line of forts, fortlets and watch posts along it is now inscribed on the UNESCO list as the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, the Lower German Limes. The site at Werthausen is one of these components, part of the chain of military posts that watched the river between the legionary bases at Neuss and Xanten.
Read the complete Duisburg-Werthausen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Duisburg-Werthausen sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm.
6. back through Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm comes up about 164 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Krefeld-Gellep.
7. back through Krefeld-Gellep
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Krefeld-Gellep write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Krefeld-Gellep. Next is back through Neuss-Koenenlager.
8. back through Neuss-Koenenlager
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Neuss-Koenenlager write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Neuss-Koenenlager, late in the day. Next is Dormagen.
9. Dormagen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dormagen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
The route ends here after 246 km.
Leg by leg
Dormagen to Neuss-Koenenlager
Dormagen → Neuss-Koenenlager is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Neuss-Koenenlager to Krefeld-Gellep
Neuss-Koenenlager → Krefeld-Gellep is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Krefeld-Gellep to Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm
Krefeld-Gellep → Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm to Duisburg-Werthausen
Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm → Duisburg-Werthausen is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Duisburg-Werthausen to back through Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm
Duisburg-Werthausen → back through Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm to back through Krefeld-Gellep
back through Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm → back through Krefeld-Gellep is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Krefeld-Gellep to back through Neuss-Koenenlager
back through Krefeld-Gellep → back through Neuss-Koenenlager is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Neuss-Koenenlager to Dormagen
back through Neuss-Koenenlager → Dormagen is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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