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 Ingolstadt it runs 168 km to Ingolstadt; allow about 2 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming, Fort site of Burgsalach, fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh and back through Fort site of Burgsalach. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 34 km of Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site of Burgsalach.
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.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
The Altmühl valley is one of the most beautiful river valleys in Bavaria, and near the village of Böhming, a short way upstream from Kipfenberg, the Romans built a small fort to guard the point where their frontier, the Raetian Limes, crossed the river. The Limes here came down from the plateau, crossed the valley and climbed again on the other side, and the fort, with its civil settlement, controlled the crossing and the route along the river. Little is visible today beyond outlines in the fields and a few marked spots, but a stone inscription found here and the finds displayed in the Roman and Bavarian museum in Kipfenberg bring the site to life.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
The small fortlet at Burgsalach stood on the Raetian Limes, the eastern section of Rome's frontier in Germany. Dating from a late phase of the frontier, it had walls of stone and was compact and well defended, more like a small castle than the usual timber watchtower, and its name lives on in the village of Burgsalach nearby. The outline of the walls can still be traced on the ground, and like the rest of the frontier it is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, in the hills of Middle Franconia, the Raetian Limes was not a palisade but a stone wall, which local legend later attributed to the Devil himself, calling it the Teufelsmauer.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site of Burgsalach. 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.
Read the complete fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh write-up.
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fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site of Burgsalach.
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Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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back through Fort site of Burgsalach sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming comes up about 142 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching closes the day.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site of Burgsalach is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Burgsalach → fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh → back through Fort site of Burgsalach is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.