CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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305 km from Hochfeld to Hochfeld, about 5 h 22 of riding. It goes by way of Neuss-Koenenlager, Cologne Cathedral, Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4 and Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 36 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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.
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Duisburg-Werthausen is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Neuss-Koenenlager comes up 39 km in. Next is Cologne Cathedral.
Six hundred and thirty-two years. That is how long it took to finish Cologne Cathedral, from the laying of the foundation stone in 1248 to the completion of the spires in 1880, and when you stand at its foot by the main station it feels as though the building is still growing. The twin towers climb to around 157 metres, black with soot and weather, and for a few years after completion they made it the tallest building in the world.
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79 km in you reach Cologne Cathedral. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4.
West of the Rhine, between Bonn and the low hills of the Vorgebirge, a broad belt of oak and beech woodland covers a plateau called the Kottenforst. For centuries it was a hunting preserve of the Electors of Cologne, who lived in Bonn, and the forest still carries the marks of that history. Long straight rides, called Schneisen, cut through the trees in star patterns, laid out so that riders and hounds could drive deer toward the hunters, and some of these old alleys are now cycle paths and walking tracks. The southern and northern parts of the woodland are now a nature park, shared with the Ville, part of the Rhineland's wider belt of forests.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2.
This is where it all begins, or ends, depending on which way you are walking. At Rheinbrohl, on the east bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes left the river and struck out across country, running more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube near Regensburg. The first watchtowers, numbered 1/1 and 1/2, stood here near the river, and the line can be followed into the hills from the edge of the village. The whole frontier is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and Rheinbrohl has a modern museum, the RömerWelt, which brings the frontier to life with reconstructions, exhibits and hands-on activities.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 sits at 157 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4.
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back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4 comes up 196 km in. Next is back through Cologne Cathedral.
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236 km in you reach back through Cologne Cathedral. Next is back through Neuss-Koenenlager.
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back through Neuss-Koenenlager, late in the day. Next is Duisburg-Werthausen.
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The route ends here after 305 km.
Duisburg-Werthausen → Neuss-Koenenlager is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Neuss-Koenenlager → Cologne Cathedral is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cologne Cathedral → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4 → Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 → back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 4 → back through Cologne Cathedral is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cologne Cathedral → back through Neuss-Koenenlager is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Neuss-Koenenlager → Duisburg-Werthausen is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.