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 290 km round trip from Weißenburg in Bayern - roughly 4 h 14 in the saddle. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, Water Management System of Augsburg and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 90 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Water Management System of Augsburg.
Augsburg was a Roman town, a medieval free imperial city and the home of the fabulously rich Fugger banking family, but the thing that held it all together was water. Over the centuries, the city built an intricate network of canals fed by the Lech and Wertach rivers, water towers, pumping stations and fountains, supplying clean drinking water to the citizens and power to mills and workshops. The system was so advanced that UNESCO inscribed it in 2019, recognising twenty-two sites, from the water towers at the Red Gate, dating back to the fifteenth century, to the great Renaissance fountains dedicated to Augustus, Mercury and Hercules on the main street.
Read the complete Water Management System of Augsburg write-up.
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about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Water Management System of Augsburg. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, 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 → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Water Management System of Augsburg is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Water Management System of Augsburg → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.