CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 312 km round trip from Ingolstadt - roughly 5 h 08 in the saddle. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz and Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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 Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47.
Up in the hills above the Altmühl valley, west of Neustadt an der Donau and the Danube, the old Raetian frontier crossed some of its prettiest country. The numbers 15/27 to 15/47 cover a long stretch of the line, and because that line follows the ridges and plateau edges, the landscape is a mixture of fields, juniper-dotted limestone slopes and sheltered woods. The Altmühl itself is a slow river that has cut a deep, winding valley through Jurassic limestone, and the whole district is a nature park, known for fossils from the quarries at Solnhofen.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
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about 77 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Above the village of Pfünz, on a spur of white Jura limestone looking down into the Altmühl valley, the Romans built a fort they called Vetoniana. Today a reconstructed gate and a stretch of wall stand on the hilltop, and from up there you understand the choice at once: the valley floor curls below you, the river meanders slowly, and anyone moving along it would have been seen hours before they arrived.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb.
Under the modern town of Weißenburg, in Franconia, lie the remains of a Roman fort called Biriciana, and it holds one of the best finds of the frontier. The fort was built in the second century to guard the line of the Raetian Limes, and a civil settlement grew up next to it, and in the third century it had a bathhouse that is the best preserved Roman bath north of the Alps. The walls of the baths still stand to a good height, with the heating system, the changing rooms and the pools, and a modern building protects them. Next to the baths is a museum, which holds a hoard of silver and bronze objects found in 1979 during building work, including statuettes of gods that were buried in a pit, probably to hide them.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz comes up about 191 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 236 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, 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.
The route ends here after 312 km.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 → back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.