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 Weißenburg in Bayern it runs 167 km to Weißenburg in Bayern; allow about 3 h 06 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei, Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15, Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49 and back through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15.
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.
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Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei.
The name Heidenheim, the heathen's home, is old and has nothing to do with the famous city of the same name in Württemberg. This one is a small village on the Hahnenkamm ridge in Middle Franconia, with a big church for its size, and it takes you to a corner of Bavaria where the Roman frontier cuts through gentle farmland. Close to Gnotzheim, a fort and a civil settlement once stood here on the Raetian Limes, the Roman border that ran across southern Germany. Soldiers lived inside the walls while merchants, craftsmen and families huddled outside, and today the site is mostly a quiet field with the odd information board.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15.
Dinkelsbühl looks like a stage set, and the people who live there have worked hard to keep it that way. The old town, with its ring of walls, towers and gates, its half-timbered houses and the huge Gothic church of St George, survived the wars and the bombing that destroyed so many German towns, and it is one of the best preserved medieval towns on the Romantic Road. Each July the Kinderzeche, a festival that recalls the story of local children who saved the town during the Thirty Years' War, fills the streets with costumes and music.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49.
The numbers here, 13/46 to 13/49, belong to a surveyor's grid, but the line they follow is the old Raetian frontier, which the Romans built across Bavaria in the second century. East of the town of Gunzenhausen it was turned from a simple timber palisade into a proper stone wall, a rarity in the Roman north. The locals later called this wall the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, because they could not imagine human hands had built something so straight and so long. Folk stories said that the devil had built it overnight, and that he had run out of time just before dawn.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei comes up about 134 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb closes the day.
Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb → Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei → Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 → Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49 → back through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei → Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.