CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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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From Klingenstein it runs 214 km to Klingenstein; allow about 3 h 34 of riding. The stops in between: Lone Valley, Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen, Building remains of south of Pfahlheim and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen.
Ehrenstein is a small district on the western edge of Ulm, in the Blau valley, where the little Blau river flows from its spring at Blaubeuren towards the Danube. In the 1950s and 60s, archaeologists found here the remains of a Neolithic village, built on the damp ground of the valley floor around six thousand years ago, with wooden houses, hearths and remarkably well-preserved organic material. The site is part of the World Heritage list of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, though there is nothing to see above ground today.
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Ehrenstein is where the day begins. Next is Lone Valley.
The Lone is a small river in the Swabian Jura, east of Ulm, that often vanishes underground in dry weather, slipping into the limestone and leaving its bed empty. Its quiet valley, flanked by wooded slopes and limestone cliffs, holds caves where some of the oldest figurative art in the world was found. In the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, fragments of a figure carved from mammoth ivory were pieced together into the Lion Man, a being with a human body and a lion's head, around forty thousand years old. In the Vogelherd cave, tiny ivory animals, a horse, a mammoth, a cave lion, emerged from the sediment.
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Lone Valley comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen.
The largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps stood on the site of today's Aalen, in the eastern Swabian Jura. It was home to a regiment of a thousand horsemen, the ala II Flavia, the most prestigious cavalry unit on the Raetian frontier, and its walls enclosed a huge area, with barracks, stables, granaries and a headquarters building. Beside it grew a civilian settlement, with traders, craftsmen and families. Today the site is home to the Limesmuseum Aalen, one of the most important museums of the Roman frontier in Germany, with excavated foundations, reconstructions and a rich collection of finds. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
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about 85 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen. Next is Building remains of south of Pfahlheim.
The name of the village gives the game away. Pfahlheim, a part of Ellwangen in the Ostalb, takes its name from the Pfahl, the stake line, which is what generations of farmers called the Roman frontier that ran through their fields. Here, at the edge of what is now Baden-Württemberg, the Upper German Limes and the Raetian Limes met, and the building remains south of the village are one of many small components of the UNESCO-listed Upper German-Raetian Limes. The frontier ran almost dead straight across this country for long distances, ignoring hills and streams in a way that still baffles people. There is very little to see on the ground today, perhaps a low bank or a signboard, but the line can be traced by eye if you know where to look.
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Building remains of south of Pfahlheim, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen sits at 135 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lone Valley.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lone Valley write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lone Valley comes up about 174 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ehrenstein.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ehrenstein write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Ehrenstein closes the day.
Ehrenstein → Lone Valley is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lone Valley → Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen → Building remains of south of Pfahlheim is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains of south of Pfahlheim → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen → back through Lone Valley is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lone Valley → Ehrenstein is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.