CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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309 km from Aalen to Aalen, about 5 h 34 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo, Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the, Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 and Fortlet Holderbusch. The line favours views over speed.
The largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps stood on the site of today's Aalen, in the eastern Swabian Jura. It was home to a regiment of a thousand horsemen, the ala II Flavia, the most prestigious cavalry unit on the Raetian frontier, and its walls enclosed a huge area, with barracks, stables, granaries and a headquarters building. Beside it grew a civilian settlement, with traders, craftsmen and families. Today the site is home to the Limesmuseum Aalen, one of the most important museums of the Roman frontier in Germany, with excavated foundations, reconstructions and a rich collection of finds. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
Lorch is where two Roman frontiers shook hands. The Upper Germanic Limes, a line of wooden palisade and watchtowers running down from the Rhine, met the Raetian Limes, a stone wall stretching east towards the Danube, in the hills near this small town in the Rems valley. The watchtower numbers jump here from series 9, the end of the Upper Germanic stretch, to 12, the start of the Raetian, and the whole system is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
Mainhardt sits on a ridge in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, and the Roman frontier ran right through it, on its way south in one of the longest straight lines ever drawn across European landscape. Here, the Upper Germanic Limes runs for some eighty kilometres from Walldürn to near Welzheim almost perfectly straight, ignoring hills and valleys, as if surveyors had laid a ruler on the map. The watchtowers numbered in this section stood along that line in the forest, and Mainhardt had a fort, whose site is marked in the village, with a small museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the write-up.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, was born at Jagsthausen castle in about 1480, and he would probably be amused to know that he is best remembered today for a rude phrase. In Goethe's play about him, Götz tells an imperial messenger exactly what the emperor can do, a line that every German knows. The castle still stands in the village, now a hotel, and in summer the Burgfestspiele, an open-air theatre festival, stages the play in the castle courtyard. Long before Götz, the Romans were here too: a fort stood at Jagsthausen on the line of the Upper Germanic Limes, and in the hills around, a series of watchtowers, numbered by archaeologists as WP 9/2 to 9/13, kept watch along the frontier.
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Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13, about halfway. Next is Fortlet Holderbusch.
Holderbusch is a small piece of woodland above the Odenwald plateau, close to Buchen, where the Romans placed a fortlet on the Odenwald Limes about the middle of the second century. This part of the Upper Germanic frontier was, for much of its length, a simple palisade and ditch, running in an astonishingly straight line across hills and valleys from the Main to the Neckar. A fortlet was a small post, a few dozen soldiers behind a bank and ditch, and from here the watchtowers on each side could be reached on foot within minutes. The ground is marked by gentle swellings in the forest floor and a path with explanatory signs, and the walk takes less than half an hour.
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Fortlet Holderbusch sits at 150 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
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back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
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about 236 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
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back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen write-up.
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The route ends here after 309 km.
Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen → Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → Fortlet Holderbusch is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Holderbusch → back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.