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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A 443 km round trip from Ingolstadt - roughly 5 h 21 in the saddle. On the way it passes Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic, fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh and back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 62 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is where the day begins. Next is Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic.
There is not much to see at Großprüfening, and that is worth knowing before you arrive expecting walls. The Roman fort and its civil settlement lie on the western edge of Regensburg, close to where the Naab flows into the Danube, and what survives is mostly under fields and houses, known from excavation and aerial photographs rather than from standing masonry. The site is part of the Danube Limes, the river frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and its value is in the position: a garrison watching a river junction, a natural route north into what the Romans considered barbarian country.
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Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh.
The Romans called it Iciniacum, and for a century and a half it was home to a cavalry unit guarding the Raetian frontier in what is now Middle Franconia. The fort at Theilenhofen, near Gunzenhausen in Bavaria, lay just behind the Limes, the frontier wall that here was built of stone, running across the landscape from the Danube toward the Main. Today there is little above ground, but information panels by the site and the line of the fort traced in the fields help visitors picture it. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005.
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about 224 km into the recorded legs you reach fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh. Next is back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic → fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh is 151 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh → back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 147 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.