CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 242 km round trip from Maulbronn - roughly 3 h 57 in the saddle. The stops in between: Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung, Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim, Watchtowers WP 12/39 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Elfinger Pond belongs to the same Cistercian water system as the others around Maulbronn, but its label travels with a surprising companion: a Roman watchtower, number twelve of thirty-nine on a ride devoted to the frontier of the empire. The Roman limes ran well to the east of here, so there is no Roman connection on the ground, only the odd fact that this hill country has been a place of lines and boundaries, in one form or another, for two thousand years. The ponds belong to a gentler kind of border, the one between wilderness and a well-run estate.
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Elfinger Pond is where the day begins. Next is Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung.
In 1927, on a hillside overlooking Stuttgart, a group of the most radical architects in Europe built an entire housing estate in a few months as an exhibition of what modern living could look like. The Weissenhof Estate, organised by the Deutscher Werkbund under the direction of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, brought together Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P. Oud and others, and their flat-roofed, white-walled houses became a manifesto for the International Style.
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Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung comes up about 45 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-.
Welzheim sits up in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, a rolling upland of spruce, beech, deep stream valleys and old sawmills east of Stuttgart, and the Romans chose it for the same reason the forest still feels remote today: it was the edge. The Upper German-Raetian Limes ran dead straight through these woods, and Welzheim had not one fort but two, an east and a west fort, with a civilian settlement of traders, craftsmen and soldiers' families packed around them. The east fort has a reconstructed gate and a small archaeological park that gives you a good sense of scale, and the whole frontier line is part of a UNESCO site.
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about 90 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/39.
Iggingen is a small village on the plateau above the Rems valley, a few kilometres east of Schwäbisch Gmünd, and like many villages in this part of Württemberg it has a Roman frontier running through its fields. The site labelled Watchtower WP 12/39 sits on the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the edge of Roman Raetia, and from here the line runs eastwards towards Aalen, the largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps, now home to an excellent Limes museum.
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Watchtowers WP 12/39, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim-.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- sits at 163 km, about halfway. Next is back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung comes up about 196 km into the recorded legs. Next is Elfinger Pond.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Elfinger Pond write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Elfinger Pond closes the day.
Elfinger Pond → Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung → Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- → Watchtowers WP 12/39 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/39 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welheim- → back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung → Elfinger Pond is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.