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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81 km from Weißenburg in Bayern to Weißenburg in Bayern, about 1 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the, Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 and back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Weißenburg in Bayern is the best Roman stop in this part of Franconia, and the fort here, known in antiquity as Biriciana, was a serious place. It stood on the Upper German-Raetian Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2005, and it held a cavalry unit at its height. Today you can walk the reconstructed gate and walls and then visit the Roman baths, which are among the best preserved in southern Germany and sit under a modern roof beside the old town. In 1979, builders found a hoard of bronze and silver objects buried in the fort's grounds, the Weißenburg treasure, which includes ceremonial armour, and it is now one of the key finds of Roman Bavaria.
Read the complete Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb write-up.
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Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Here the frontier changes character. West of the Franconian lakes the Romans built the Raetian Limes not as a palisade but, in its final form, as a stone wall, a metre or so thick and perhaps three high, running across Middle Franconia toward the Danube. Medieval villagers who found its rubble in their fields had no idea who had built it and called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, which tells you how thoroughly the empire had been forgotten. The watchtowers numbered in this section sat along that wall in the farmland around Pfofeld and Gunzenhausen, close to where the line crosses the Altmühl valley.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40.
In the rolling country of Middle Franconia, between Gunzenhausen and Wassertrüdingen, the Raetian Limes ran as a stone wall rather than a wooden palisade. Local people later called its remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing no human could have built such a long barrier. The section near watchtower WP 13/40, close to Arberg and Ornbau, is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site, and in places a low bank of stones in the fields and woods still marks the line.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 write-up.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb → Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 → back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.