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 Jagsthausen it runs 175 km to Jagsthausen; allow about 3 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68, Murrhardt civil settlement northern part, Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch and back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part.
Jagsthausen is a village of around fifteen hundred people in the Jagst valley of northern Württemberg, and it punches far above its weight in history. The Romans built a fort here on the Upper German-Raetian Limes, with a civilian settlement and a bath house, part of the UNESCO-listed frontier. But the village is better known for a later resident: Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, who was born in the castle here around 1480. He lost his right hand in battle and had a mechanical one made, led peasants in the war of 1525, and became the hero of a play by Goethe that contains a famously rude line that Germans still quote.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68.
Between Öhringen and Mainhardt, the Upper German Limes does something a Roman engineer must have been proud of: it runs dead straight for many kilometres, up hill and down dale, ignoring the terrain as if drawn with a ruler on a map. The watchtower sites numbered along this section lie on that line, in the Hohenlohe country of northern Württemberg, between the open farmland around Pfedelbach and the dark wooded hills of the Swabian-Franconian Forest.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Murrhardt civil settlement northern part.
Murrhardt lies in the valley of the Murr, deep in the Swabian-Franconian Forest northeast of Stuttgart, a hilly, densely wooded region of streams, mills and small villages that feels a long way from the industrial heartland just to the west. The Romans built a fort here on the Limes, the frontier that ran through these forests from north to south, and a civil settlement grew up around it. The northern part of that settlement lies under parts of the modern town, and while there is little to see, the town's museum displays Roman finds, and the frontier through these woods is protected by its World Heritage status.
Read the complete Murrhardt civil settlement northern part write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Murrhardt civil settlement northern part. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch.
Lorch, in the Rems valley east of Stuttgart, sits on a historic seam. Just outside town, the Upper German Limes, which ran as a palisade and ditch from the Rhine, met the Raetian Limes, the stone wall running east to the Danube, and the Romans built a fort here to watch over that junction and the valley road. The fort lay beneath what is now the old town centre, and its outline, together with traces of the civilian settlement that grew around it, is marked in places in the streets. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and a reconstructed watchtower stands on a hill nearby.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch, about halfway. Next is back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Murrhardt civil settlement northern part write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 comes up about 149 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau closes the day.
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau → Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 → Murrhardt civil settlement northern part is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Murrhardt civil settlement northern part → Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch → back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part → back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 → Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.