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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From Walldürn it runs 287 km to Walldürn; allow about 5 h 03 of riding. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau, Building remains south of the watchtower W, Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 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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Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Building remains south of the watchtower W.
Mainhardt sits high in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, between Heilbronn and Schwäbisch Hall, on a wooded plateau that the Romans chose for one of the forts guarding their frontier. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes runs through here on its long, ruler-straight stretch heading south towards Welzheim, and along it stood watchtowers every few hundred metres, with small buildings nearby for the soldiers who manned them. The remains south of one of these towers are modest, low foundations in a clearing or under the forest floor, but they are part of the World Heritage frontier that runs for more than five hundred kilometres across Germany. The village has a small Roman museum that explains the fort and its garrison.
Read the complete Building remains south of the watchtower W write-up.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Building remains south of the watchtower W.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard.
Mainhardt sits on a plateau in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, a wooded upland east of Heilbronn, and in the second century, a Roman army unit was stationed here. The fort was built around the middle of the second century, as part of the forward movement of the frontier, to guard the Limes that ran just to the east. It held a unit of around five hundred soldiers, and a civil settlement grew up beside it, with houses, workshops, baths and inns, where families, craftsmen and traders lived.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard sits at 141 km, about halfway. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau comes up about 176 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Building remains south of the watchtower W.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Building remains south of the watchtower W write-up.
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about 211 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Building remains south of the watchtower W.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau, late in the day. Next is Fort Altheimer Strasse.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort Altheimer Strasse write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 287 km.
Fort Altheimer Strasse → Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau → Building remains south of the watchtower W is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains south of the watchtower W → Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau → Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 35 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 Building remains south of the watchtower W is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains south of the watchtower W → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau → Fort Altheimer Strasse is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.