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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194 km from Jagsthausen to Jagsthausen, about 2 h 57 of riding. It goes by way of Building remains south of Götzingen, Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl, Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb and back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl. The line favours views over speed.
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 Building remains south of Götzingen.
Between the Odenwald and the Tauber country lies the Bauland, a high, open plateau of limestone, cornfields and small villages that most travellers cross without slowing down. Just south of Götzingen, among fields and woodland edges between Buchen and Osterburken, are the remains of a Roman building on the line of the Upper Germanic Limes. It is not a grand ruin, more a footprint in the ground, but it belongs to one of the best documented stretches of the frontier, the section that runs straight as a ruler through this part of northern Baden-Württemberg.
Read the complete Building remains south of Götzingen write-up.
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Building remains south of Götzingen comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl.
At Miltenberg, the Roman frontier did something unusual: it stopped being a wall and became a river. North of the town, the Main served as the frontier for some fifty kilometres, guarded by forts and watchtowers along its western bank, and here, where the river bends, the land frontier began again, heading south through the Odenwald. The watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 belong to this stretch, and while most are only traces in fields and forests, they are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Romans built forts at Miltenberg, too, and some of their finds are displayed in the town museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl write-up.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb.
For one stretch of the Roman frontier in Germany, the soldiers did not need to build a wall at all. Between Großkrotzenburg and Miltenberg, the Main river itself served as the border, the so-called wet Limes, guarded by a chain of forts along its western bank. Niedernberg, a village on the river just below Aschaffenburg, was one of them, with a fort and a civilian settlement beside it. Little survives above ground today; the remains lie beneath fields and houses. But the Main still flows past, broad and slow, and it is easy to picture patrol boats and soldiers watching the far bank. The site is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl sits at 128 km, about halfway. Next is back through Building remains south of Götzingen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Building remains south of Götzingen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Building remains south of Götzingen comes up about 164 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 → Building remains south of Götzingen is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains south of Götzingen → Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl → Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb → back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl → back through Building remains south of Götzingen is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains south of Götzingen → Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.