Why this ride
A 79 km round trip from Walldürn - roughly 1 h 19 in the saddle. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur, Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort Altheimer Strasse and Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau starting at Walldürn
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 79 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 19
- 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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
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. Fort Altheimer Strasse
Walldürn is a small town on the eastern edge of the Odenwald, where the hills of the forest give way to the open plateau of the Bauland, and the Roman frontier ran right through it. The Upper Germanic Limes followed a straight line here, and the town had a fort and a bathhouse, whose remains have been excavated and partly reconstructed. Fort Altheimer Strasse, named after the road where it was found, was one of the smaller installations along the line, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Fort Altheimer Strasse write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort Altheimer Strasse is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur.
2. Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur
Osterburken is a small town in the Bauland of northern Baden-Württemberg, and the Romans left it one of the most interesting fort sites on the Upper German Limes. The fort here was built in the second century AD, when the frontier was moved forward, and it had an unusual annex fort added later, with walls that ran down the slope toward the stream, making it one of the few double fort complexes on the Limes. Large sections of the walls have been excavated and conserved, and the Roman museum next to the site displays finds from the fort and the civil settlement. The Upper German-Raetian Limes became a UNESCO site in 2005.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur 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 Osterbur comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau.
3. Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau
Jagsthausen is a village of around fifteen hundred people in the Jagst valley of northern Württemberg, and it punches far above its weight in history. The Romans built a fort here on the Upper German-Raetian Limes, with a civilian settlement and a bath house, part of the UNESCO-listed frontier. But the village is better known for a later resident: Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, who was born in the castle here around 1480. He lost his right hand in battle and had a mechanical one made, led peasants in the war of 1525, and became the hero of a play by Goethe that contains a famously rude line that Germans still quote.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur.
4. back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur 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 Osterbur, late in the day. Next is Fort Altheimer Strasse.
5. Fort Altheimer Strasse
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort Altheimer Strasse write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Fort Altheimer Strasse. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fort Altheimer Strasse to Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur
Fort Altheimer Strasse → Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur to Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau
Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur → Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau to back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur to Fort Altheimer Strasse
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur → Fort Altheimer Strasse is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.