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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102 km from Neustadt an der Donau to Neustadt an der Donau, about 2 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 and back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets. The line favours views over speed.
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 Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
The Altmühl valley in Bavaria is one of Germany's best kept riding secrets, a winding river valley cut deep into Jurassic limestone, lined with juniper heaths, rock towers and castles. Near where the valley meets the Danube, the Roman frontier, the Raetian Limes, ran across the land, and the stretch of watchtowers and small forts numbered WP 15/11 to 15/26 lies in the wooded hills here, between Riedenburg, Dietfurt and the Danube town of Vohburg.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
In Bavaria, the Roman frontier changed character. Instead of the wooden palisade used in the Upper German section, the Raetian Limes was eventually built as a stone wall, known locally as the Devil's Wall, because medieval people could not imagine anyone but the devil building something so long. The stretch between Watchtowers 15/1 and 15/7 crosses the hills around the Altmühl valley, near Kipfenberg and Kinding, and the line of the wall can still be traced in places as a low ridge in the forest. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, late in the day. 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.
Back at Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum. That is the ride.
Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum → Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 → back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.