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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A 160 km round trip from Walldürn - roughly 2 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur, Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau, Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 and back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30.
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.
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Fort Altheimer Strasse is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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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.
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.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30.
Osterburken is the place on the German Limes where you really can see the Romans in the town. The fort here sat on the frontier in the Bauland, a hilly farming district between the Odenwald and the Neckar, and the museum in the town houses the remains of the fort baths and a rare relief of the god Mithras, an eastern cult favoured by soldiers, whose followers met in small, dark temples to share a sacred meal. The watchtowers 8/29 and 8/30 stand out in the fields a short distance away, part of the line that ran straight over the hills.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30, about halfway.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau sits at 72 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 comes up about 102 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur, late in the day. Next is Fort Altheimer Strasse.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort Altheimer Strasse write-up.
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The route ends here after 160 km.
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 → 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 → Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 → Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau → back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Fort Altheimer Strasse is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.