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 Neuwied it runs 275 km to Neuwied; allow about 4 h 14 of riding. On the way it passes Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1, Monheim-Haus Bürgel and back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Roman frontier in Germany, the Limes, begins at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl, and a few kilometres upstream the town of Neuwied sits on the river, its district of Heddesdorf lying on the site of a Roman auxiliary fort. The fort was one of a chain of garrison posts in the Neuwied basin, a wide, fertile bowl of the Rhine valley with a mild climate, and the soldiers who lived here controlled the river crossing and the road toward the frontier. A civil settlement, a vicus, grew beside the fort, with traders, craftsmen and families. Nothing stands today above ground, because the fort lies under houses and streets, and what survives is documented in the finds in the local museum, in markers and in the street plan.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1.
A forest closer to a city than most people realise, the Kottenforst spreads over a low ridge between Bonn and the Eifel foothills, and the Dürrenbruch is one of the quiet corners of its northern half. The old prince-electors of Cologne used it as a hunting ground, cutting long straight rides through the trees that radiate like the spokes of a wheel, which is why the forest feels strangely geometrical when you look at a map. Today it is a Bonn-area refuge of beech, oak and hornbeam, cut by cycle paths and walking trails.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monheim-Haus Bürgel.
Haus Bürgel is a manor farm that sits on top of a Roman fort, quite literally. The walls of a late Roman fortification, built in the fourth century to guard the Rhine frontier, form part of the foundations and outer walls of the medieval and later farm buildings, and the site is part of the Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021. Between Monheim and Düsseldorf-Urdenbach, it lies in a broad meadow landscape on the right bank of the Rhine.
Read the complete Monheim-Haus Bürgel write-up.
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about 139 km into the recorded legs you reach Monheim-Haus Bürgel. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo → Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 → Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monheim-Haus Bürgel → back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Dürrenbruch 1 → Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.