Why this ride
From Klingenstein it runs 300 km to Klingenstein; allow about 4 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb, Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ehrenstein and Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 300 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 35
- 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. Ehrenstein
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.
Read the complete Ehrenstein write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ehrenstein is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb.
2. Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb
The Rems valley runs east from Stuttgart towards the edge of the Swabian Jura, and Unterböbingen lies just outside the village of Böbingen, with Heubach three kilometres on and the long wooded wall of the Alb rising behind. The ground here is gently rolling farmland, orchards, small fields and the occasional church spire, the kind of country that looks entirely ordinary until you remember who once held it.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb comes up about 91 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 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb.
4. back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb, late in the day. Next is Ehrenstein.
5. Ehrenstein
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ehrenstein write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Ehrenstein. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Ehrenstein to Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb
Ehrenstein → Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb to Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb → Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is 59 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 site and civil settlement of Unterböb
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb to Ehrenstein
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb → Ehrenstein is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.