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 257 km round trip from Butzbach - roughly 3 h 05 in the saddle. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro, Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Butzbach sits at the northern edge of the Wetterau, a broad, fertile plain north of Frankfurt, where the Taunus ends and the land opens out into fields of wheat, sugar beet and rapeseed. The Romans prized this land, and their frontier made a long detour around it, swinging east and then south to include the Wetterau within the empire. Near Butzbach, on the Schrenzer hill, they built a small fort, the Kastell Schrenzer, to guard the frontier where it left the Taunus and began its loop around the plain. The fort and the frontier nearby are part of the frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and the remains, low earthworks in the woods, can be visited on foot.
Read the complete Fort Schrenzer write-up.
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Fort Schrenzer is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro.
Großkrotzenburg sits at a turning point of the Roman frontier. Here, on the Main east of Frankfurt, the river border that ran north from Miltenberg came to an end, and the Limes turned away from the water to head north across the Wetterau toward the Taunus. A fort guarded the spot, with a civilian settlement, and parts of its walls and gate can still be traced in the old town, where the fort's outline is marked in the streets. The site belongs to the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and the local museum displays finds from the fort and the vicus.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe.
Miltenberg is one of those German towns that seem almost too pretty to be real, with half-timbered houses leaning over the cobbled streets, a market square sloping down toward the river, a castle on the hill above and the Main flowing slowly past. The Romans were here first. Two forts guarded this point on the frontier, one near the old town and another to the east, where the Limes left the river and ran overland through the Odenwald, and the sites, with their civilian settlements, are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. A museum in the town displays finds from the forts.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe write-up.
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about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro, late in the day. Next is Fort Schrenzer.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort Schrenzer write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort Schrenzer. That is the ride.
Fort Schrenzer → Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro → Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Grosskro → Fort Schrenzer is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.