CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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95 km from Wassertrüdingen to Wassertrüdingen, about 2 h 01 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho, Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 22 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The name Heidenheim, the heathen's home, is old and has nothing to do with the famous city of the same name in Württemberg. This one is a small village on the Hahnenkamm ridge in Middle Franconia, with a big church for its size, and it takes you to a corner of Bavaria where the Roman frontier cuts through gentle farmland. Close to Gnotzheim, a fort and a civil settlement once stood here on the Raetian Limes, the Roman border that ran across southern Germany. Soldiers lived inside the walls while merchants, craftsmen and families huddled outside, and today the site is mostly a quiet field with the odd information board.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho.
There is nothing to climb at Ruffenhofen, and that is the clever part. The Roman fort here, on gently rising ground above the Wörnitz near Weiltingen and Wittelshofen, has never been rebuilt in stone. Instead, the outline of the walls, gates and the buildings of the settlement around it has been traced across the fields with hedges, trees and mown strips, so the whole place reads like a plan drawn in plants. From the little viewing hill you can see the shape of a garrison that has been underground for seventeen centuries.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho comes up 22 km in. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for.
Near Rainau, not far from here, the Romans built a monumental gate in the Raetian Limes, a showpiece entrance probably connected with a visit by the emperor Caracalla in the early third century. Today the Limestor Dalkingen is protected under a glass and steel shelter, an impressive sight. The watchtowers numbered in this section, around Stödtlen, Wört and Tannhausen, were part of the same frontier, which ran here as a stone wall across the hilly country between the Ries crater and the Swabian Forest, toward the Danube.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
44 km in you reach Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei → Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho → Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ruffenho → Fort site and civil settlement of Gnotzhei is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.