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 Neustadt an der Donau it runs 188 km to Neustadt an der Donau; allow about 3 h 17 of riding. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming, Fort site of Burgsalach and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site of Burgsalach for 34 km.
At Eining, on the Danube in Lower Bavaria, the Roman frontier of Raetia met the river. The Raetian Limes, a stone wall running for over a hundred and sixty kilometres across southern Germany, ended near here at Hienheim on the opposite bank, and from there the Danube itself formed the border all the way to the Black Sea. The Romans built the fort of Abusina at Eining, whose stone foundations are among the best preserved in Bavaria, and on the Weinberg, a hill nearby, they built a watchtower and a sanctuary, where soldiers worshipped their gods. Unusually, two separate World Heritage frontiers touch here: the Raetian Limes on land and the Danube Limes along the river.
Read the complete Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum write-up.
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Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
The Altmühl valley is one of the most beautiful river valleys in Bavaria, and near the village of Böhming, a short way upstream from Kipfenberg, the Romans built a small fort to guard the point where their frontier, the Raetian Limes, crossed the river. The Limes here came down from the plateau, crossed the valley and climbed again on the other side, and the fort, with its civil settlement, controlled the crossing and the route along the river. Little is visible today beyond outlines in the fields and a few marked spots, but a stone inscription found here and the finds displayed in the Roman and Bavarian museum in Kipfenberg bring the site to life.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
The small fortlet at Burgsalach stood on the Raetian Limes, the eastern section of Rome's frontier in Germany. Dating from a late phase of the frontier, it had walls of stone and was compact and well defended, more like a small castle than the usual timber watchtower, and its name lives on in the village of Burgsalach nearby. The outline of the walls can still be traced on the ground, and like the rest of the frontier it is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, in the hills of Middle Franconia, the Raetian Limes was not a palisade but a stone wall, which local legend later attributed to the Devil himself, calling it the Teufelsmauer.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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Fort site of Burgsalach, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming sits at 112 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up about 153 km into the recorded legs. Next is Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum closes the day.
Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site of Burgsalach is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Burgsalach → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.