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 Neustadt an der Donau it runs 273 km to Neustadt an der Donau; allow about 4 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site of Burgsalach, Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 and back through Fort site of Burgsalach. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 77 km of Fort site and civil settlement of Eining → Fort site of Burgsalach.
The Danube here is already a serious river, and about two thousand years ago it was the edge of the Roman Empire. Abusina, the Roman fort at Eining, stood on the south bank, where a small tributary joins, and its soldiers watched the Germanic lands across the water. The site lies in a bend a few kilometres from Neustadt an der Donau, and what remains are the foundations of a fort that was rebuilt several times, and of a civilian settlement, with a bath house, whose walls you can see outlined in the grass. The fort ended its life in the fifth century, in the unsettled times when Rome let go of the frontier.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Eining write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Eining is where the day begins. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
The small fortlet at Burgsalach stood on the Raetian Limes, the eastern section of Rome's frontier in Germany. Dating from a late phase of the frontier, it had walls of stone and was compact and well defended, more like a small castle than the usual timber watchtower, and its name lives on in the village of Burgsalach nearby. The outline of the walls can still be traced on the ground, and like the rest of the frontier it is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, in the hills of Middle Franconia, the Raetian Limes was not a palisade but a stone wall, which local legend later attributed to the Devil himself, calling it the Teufelsmauer.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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Fort site of Burgsalach comes up about 77 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15. Next is back through Fort site of Burgsalach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Eining.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Eining write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Eining. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Eining → Fort site of Burgsalach is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fort site of Burgsalach → Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 → back through Fort site of Burgsalach is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach → Fort site and civil settlement of Eining is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.