CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 386 km round trip from Gendt - roughly 5 h 55 in the saddle. The stops in between: Kalkar-Bornsches Feld, Moers-Asberg, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in and Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Right where the Rhine enters the Netherlands and splits in two, the Dutch put a fort. Fort Pannerden was built around 1870 at the point where the river divides into the Waal, flowing west toward Nijmegen and Rotterdam, and the Pannerdens Kanaal, which feeds the Nederrijn and the IJssel. Control the split, and you control how much water goes where, which in a country defended by deliberate flooding mattered enormously. The fort, a low, heavy brick and earth structure surrounded by a moat, guarded the dykes and sluices that could send water into the defensive lines further west. It is counted among the Dutch Water Defence Lines listed by UNESCO.
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Fort Pannerden is where the day begins. Next is Kalkar-Bornsches Feld.
Kalkar sits on a low terrace a few kilometres from the Rhine, close to the Dutch border, and everything about the landscape here is flat, wide and bright. The label points to the Bornsches Feld, a field on the edge of town that belongs to the Roman Lower Germanic Limes, the frontier that followed the Rhine itself rather than a wall or a palisade. UNESCO added the whole line to its list in 2021. Here, as elsewhere along the lower river, the Roman forts and camps stood on the river bank, the water served as the barrier, and what remains today is mostly in the ground and in the museums of Xanten, a little way up the Rhine.
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Kalkar-Bornsches Feld comes up 45 km in. Next is Moers-Asberg.
Asberg is a quiet district on the southern edge of Moers, on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, and beneath its houses and fields lies the Roman fort of Asciburgium, one of the earliest military bases on the Rhine frontier. It was founded around the time of the emperor Augustus or soon after, garrisoned by cavalry and auxiliary troops, and abandoned toward the end of the first century, when the Rhine shifted its course and moved away from the fort. The site is now part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site, and although there is little to see above ground, information boards and outlines help you imagine the scene.
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91 km in you reach Moers-Asberg. Next is Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
The headframe of Shaft XII at Zollverein, with its red steel lattice and double wheels, is the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr, and it is easy to see why. Designed by the architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer and opened in 1932, the shaft and its surrounding buildings were built in a clean, functional style influenced by the Bauhaus, and it was hailed as the most beautiful coal mine in the world. At its peak, Zollverein was one of the largest and most productive mines in Europe, and the adjacent coking plant processed coal into coke for the steel industry. The mine closed in 1986, the coking plant in 1993, and UNESCO listed the complex in 2001.
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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in, about halfway. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm.
Neuss has been a garrison town for two thousand years, and it still carries the Roman name in a shortened form: Novaesium, the legionary fortress that stood on the Rhine near the mouth of the Erft, was one of the oldest Roman military sites in Germany, founded in the days of Augustus. The Rhine was the frontier here, the Lower Germanic Limes, with no wall but a river, fortresses and watchtowers like the one at Reckberg, and the whole line was added to the UNESCO list in 2021.
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Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
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back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in comes up 226 km in. Next is back through Moers-Asberg.
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272 km in you reach back through Moers-Asberg. Next is back through Kalkar-Bornsches Feld.
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back through Kalkar-Bornsches Feld, late in the day. Next is Fort Pannerden.
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The route ends here after 386 km.
Fort Pannerden → Kalkar-Bornsches Feld is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkar-Bornsches Feld → Moers-Asberg is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moers-Asberg → Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm → back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → back through Moers-Asberg is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moers-Asberg → back through Kalkar-Bornsches Feld is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalkar-Bornsches Feld → Fort Pannerden is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.