Why this ride
A 380 km round trip from Miehlen - roughly 6 h 04 in the saddle. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59, Remagen, Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 and Dormagen. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe and Dormagen
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 380 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 04
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Scenic road chapters
Moselle Wine Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 37 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 37 km
- Named road
- Moselle Wine Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe
Marienfels is a small village in the hills of the western Taunus, between the Rhine and the Lahn, and it sits on the site of a Roman fort and its civilian settlement, part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. The frontier wall ran through these hills, and the fort housed a garrison that guarded the frontier and the roads that crossed it. Little remains above ground, but excavations have revealed the outline of the fort and the settlement, with houses, baths and workshops.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe 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 Marienfe is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59.
2. Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59
The Upper German-Raetian Limes began its long march across Germany on the banks of the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, and climbed from there into the hills of the Westerwald. The stretch between Watchtowers 1/58 and 1/59, near Höhr-Grenzhausen, is part of this first section, where the frontier ran through forests and over hills above the Rhine valley. Remains are scarce here, perhaps a mound or a line in the forest floor, but the Limes path follows the route, and information boards explain the history.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Remagen.
3. Remagen
On 7 March 1945, soldiers of the US 9th Armored Division reached Remagen and found the Ludendorff railway bridge across the Rhine still standing, despite German attempts to blow it. They rushed across, and for the first time the Allies had a foothold on the far bank of the great river. Ten days later the damaged bridge collapsed, but by then pontoons had been built and the war in the west had entered its last chapter. What remains today are the black stone towers on both banks, and those on the Remagen side house a small peace museum telling the story with honesty and without glorification.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Remagen. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1.
4. Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1
The Kottenforst looks like an ordinary Rhineland woodland of oak, beech and hornbeam, with walkers, joggers and the odd horse rider, but in the second half of the first century and beyond it was a training ground for the Roman army. In clearings of the forest, the legion stationed at Bonna, today's Bonn, built a series of temporary camps as exercises, digging ditches and raising ramparts to practise the rapid construction they would need in the field. The remains of these camps, faint earthworks under the trees, are included in the Lower Germanic Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2021. Am Weissen Stein is one of the northern groups.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1, about halfway. Next is Dormagen.
5. Dormagen
Dormagen is not the sort of place that ends up on postcards, and it does not try to be. It is a working town of some sixty thousand on the left bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf, dominated on its northern side by a huge chemical park whose pipes and stacks glow at night. Yet the name itself comes from Roman times: Durnomagus was a fort on the Lower German Limes, the Rhine frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and a cavalry unit was stationed here to patrol the river and the road along it.
Read the complete Dormagen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Dormagen sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1.
6. back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 comes up about 248 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Remagen.
7. back through Remagen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 295 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Remagen. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59.
8. back through Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe.
9. Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 380 km.
Leg by leg
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe to Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe → Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 to Remagen
Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 → Remagen is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen to Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1
Remagen → Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 to Dormagen
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 → Dormagen is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dormagen to back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1
Dormagen → back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 to back through Remagen
back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 → back through Remagen is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Remagen to back through Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59
back through Remagen → back through Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 to Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe
back through Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 → Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.