Why this ride
From Ober-Mörlen it runs 261 km to Ober-Mörlen; allow about 4 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Fortlet Adolfseck, Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57 and back through Fortlet Adolfseck. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha and Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 261 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 29
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha
Elvis Presley spent his military service in Friedberg, a few kilometres from here, from 1958 to 1960, and lived in a rented house in the spa town of Bad Nauheim, where fans still leave messages on the wall outside and a square in the town bears his name. But nearly two thousand years earlier, other soldiers served in this region. The Roman frontier of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, a World Heritage site, ran along the edge of the Taunus hills here, and at Langenhain, near Ober-Mörlen, the Romans built a fort with a civil settlement beside it, where traders, craftsmen and the families of soldiers lived. Today, the site is mostly fields and meadows, with information boards to help you imagine the walls, gates and buildings that once stood here.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha is where the day begins. Next is Fortlet Adolfseck.
2. Fortlet Adolfseck
The Aar is a small river that winds north from the Taunus towards the Lahn, through a narrow, wooded valley that has served as a route through the hills since ancient times. Where the Roman frontier crossed the valley near Adolfseck, today a district of Bad Schwalbach, the Romans built a fortlet to control the crossing, a small, square fortification with a garrison of a few dozen soldiers. The remains have been excavated and are marked on the ground, and the stretch of frontier nearby is part of the World Heritage frontiers of the Roman Empire. Above the valley, the ruins of a medieval castle, also called Adolfseck, add another layer of history.
Read the complete Fortlet Adolfseck write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fortlet Adolfseck comes up 62 km in. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57.
3. Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57
This stretch of the Limes sits close to Bendorf and Stromberg, on the plateau above the Rhine near Koblenz, and the watchtowers numbered here, five in all, follow the line as it climbs from the river. The frontier was a controlled boundary: a palisade or bank, a ditch, and a series of towers within sight of each other, with a patrol path behind. Traces survive as low banks in forest and field, and some positions have been marked or partly reconstructed, which makes this a good place to understand how the system worked.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
124 km in you reach Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57. Next is back through Fortlet Adolfseck.
4. back through Fortlet Adolfseck
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Adolfseck write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Fortlet Adolfseck, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha.
5. Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha to Fortlet Adolfseck
Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha → Fortlet Adolfseck is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Adolfseck to Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57
Fortlet Adolfseck → Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57 is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57 to back through Fortlet Adolfseck
Watchtowers WP 1/53 to 1/57 → back through Fortlet Adolfseck is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlet Adolfseck to Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha
back through Fortlet Adolfseck → Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.