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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281 km from Mainhardt to Mainhardt, about 4 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Building remains south of Götzingen, Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb and back through Building remains south of Götzingen. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Mainhardt sits on a plateau in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, a wooded upland east of Heilbronn, and in the second century, a Roman army unit was stationed here. The fort was built around the middle of the second century, as part of the forward movement of the frontier, to guard the Limes that ran just to the east. It held a unit of around five hundred soldiers, and a civil settlement grew up beside it, with houses, workshops, baths and inns, where families, craftsmen and traders lived.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard 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.
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Building remains south of Götzingen comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 140 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb. 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, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard → Building remains south of Götzingen is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains south of Götzingen → Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb → back through Building remains south of Götzingen is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Building remains south of Götzingen → Fort site and civil settlement of Mainhard is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.