Why this ride
192 km from Miehlen to Miehlen, about 3 h 21 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtower WP 1/77, Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38, Remagen and back through Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe and Remagen
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 192 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 21
- 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 30 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 30 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 Watchtower WP 1/77.
2. Watchtower WP 1/77
In the hills of the Westerwald, east of Koblenz, the Roman frontier ran from the Rhine up across the high ground towards the Taunus, and archaeologists have numbered every tower site along it. Watchtower WP 1/77, near the villages of Kadenbach and Arzbach, is one of them, now marked by a low mound or reconstructed foundations in the woods. The frontier here was a palisade of timber and later an earth bank and ditch, with towers every few hundred metres, and the whole system is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/77 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtower WP 1/77 comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38.
3. Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38
Two numbered watchtower sites on the Roman frontier sit here in the Westerwald countryside above the Rhine, near the villages of Melsbach and Rengsdorf. The paired label is archaeologists' shorthand, because the Upper Germanic Limes was a chain of towers placed within sight of one another, a few hundred metres apart. These two were part of the line that ran from the Rhine near Rheinbrohl across the hills of Rhineland-Palatinate and on towards the Taunus, and the whole frontier is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed in 2005 as part of the larger Roman Limes complex.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38. Next is Remagen.
4. 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
Remagen, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38.
5. back through Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38 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 1/37 to 1/38 sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/77.
6. back through Watchtower WP 1/77
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/77 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Watchtower WP 1/77 comes up about 161 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe.
7. 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
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe closes the day.
Leg by leg
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe to Watchtower WP 1/77
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe → Watchtower WP 1/77 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/77 to Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38
Watchtower WP 1/77 → Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38 is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38 to Remagen
Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38 → Remagen is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen to back through Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38
Remagen → back through Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38 to back through Watchtower WP 1/77
back through Watchtowers WP 1/37 to 1/38 → back through Watchtower WP 1/77 is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/77 to Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe
back through Watchtower WP 1/77 → Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.