CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Greding it runs 284 km to Greding; allow about 5 h 12 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb and Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Altmühl valley is one of the most beautiful river valleys in Bavaria, and near the village of Böhming, a short way upstream from Kipfenberg, the Romans built a small fort to guard the point where their frontier, the Raetian Limes, crossed the river. The Limes here came down from the plateau, crossed the valley and climbed again on the other side, and the fort, with its civil settlement, controlled the crossing and the route along the river. Little is visible today beyond outlines in the fields and a few marked spots, but a stone inscription found here and the finds displayed in the Roman and Bavarian museum in Kipfenberg bring the site to life.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
Between Ingolstadt and Kelheim, the Danube flows through a broad, flat valley in Bavaria, with hop gardens, fields of maize and asparagus beds on its banks. Pförring is a small market town on the north bank, with Neustadt an der Donau and Vohburg on the other side. In Roman times, this was the frontier: the Raetian Limes ended at the Danube just downstream, and the Romans built a fort here, known as Celeusum, with a civil settlement outside its walls.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Above the village of Pfünz, on a spur of white Jura limestone looking down into the Altmühl valley, the Romans built a fort they called Vetoniana. Today a reconstructed gate and a stretch of wall stand on the hilltop, and from up there you understand the choice at once: the valley floor curls below you, the river meanders slowly, and anyone moving along it would have been seen hours before they arrived.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb.
Under the modern town of Weißenburg, in Franconia, lie the remains of a Roman fort called Biriciana, and it holds one of the best finds of the frontier. The fort was built in the second century to guard the line of the Raetian Limes, and a civil settlement grew up next to it, and in the third century it had a bathhouse that is the best preserved Roman bath north of the Alps. The walls of the baths still stand to a good height, with the heating system, the changing rooms and the pools, and a modern building protects them. Next to the baths is a museum, which holds a hoard of silver and bronze objects found in 1979 during building work, including statuettes of gods that were buried in a pit, probably to hide them.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb, about halfway. 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.
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Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 sits at 150 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb comes up about 174 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
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about 209 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
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The route ends here after 284 km.
Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb → Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.