Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum and Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15

Scenic road chapters

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum

   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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum is where the day begins. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.

2. 2. 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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Fort site of Burgsalach comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15.

3. 3. Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15

   Dinkelsbühl looks like a stage set, and the people who live there have worked hard to keep it that way. The old town, with its ring of walls, towers and gates, its half-timbered houses and the huge Gothic church of St George, survived the wars and the bombing that destroyed so many German towns, and it is one of the best preserved medieval towns on the Romantic Road. Each July the Kinderzeche, a festival that recalls the story of local children who saved the town during the Thirty Years' War, fills the streets with costumes and music.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15. Next is back through Fort site of Burgsalach.

4. 4. back through Fort site of Burgsalach

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   back through Fort site of Burgsalach, late in the day. Next is Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum.

5. 5. Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Back at Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum. That is the ride.