Why this ride
65 km from Friedberg to Friedberg, about 1 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Fort Schrenzer, Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 and back through Fort Schrenzer.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber and Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 65 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 12
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber
Friedberg's castle stands on a basalt ridge above the Wetterau, a walled enclosure so large it is almost a town of its own, with a tall round tower, the Adolfsturm, rising above the trees. What most visitors walking through the castle gate do not know is that they are standing on a Roman fort. The legions chose this same ridge in the first century AD, and a fort with a civil settlement grew up here, linked by road to the Limes a few kilometres to the north and west.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber is where the day begins. Next is Fort Schrenzer.
2. Fort Schrenzer
Butzbach sits at the northern edge of the Wetterau, a broad, fertile plain north of Frankfurt, where the Taunus ends and the land opens out into fields of wheat, sugar beet and rapeseed. The Romans prized this land, and their frontier made a long detour around it, swinging east and then south to include the Wetterau within the empire. Near Butzbach, on the Schrenzer hill, they built a small fort, the Kastell Schrenzer, to guard the frontier where it left the Taunus and began its loop around the plain. The fort and the frontier nearby are part of the frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and the remains, low earthworks in the woods, can be visited on foot.
Read the complete Fort Schrenzer write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort Schrenzer comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57.
3. Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57
The Wetterau is the broad, fertile plain north of Frankfurt, between the Taunus and the Vogelsberg, and the Romans considered it so valuable that they bent their frontier around it to include it in the empire. The Limes ran along the northern edge of the plain, and the watchtowers numbered WP 4/53 to 4/57, near the town of Lich, stood on this section, part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes listed by UNESCO in 2005. Like most watchtowers, they survive only as mounds or traces in the fields and forest, but the line of the frontier can be followed on foot or by bicycle.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 32 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57. Next is back through Fort Schrenzer.
4. back through Fort Schrenzer
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort Schrenzer write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Fort Schrenzer, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber.
5. Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber to Fort Schrenzer
Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber → Fort Schrenzer is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort Schrenzer to Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57
Fort Schrenzer → Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 to back through Fort Schrenzer
Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 → back through Fort Schrenzer is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort Schrenzer to Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber
back through Fort Schrenzer → Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.