Why this ride
From Miehlen it runs 88 km to Miehlen; allow about 1 h 35 of riding. It goes by way of Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a, Watchtower WP 1/61 and back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe and Watchtower WP 1/61
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 88 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 35
- 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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Moselle Wine Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 21 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 21 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 Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a.
2. Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a
Bad Ems sits in a narrow, wooded bend of the Lahn river, where the valley is so steep that the town seems poured into the gap. It has been a spa since the Middle Ages, and by the nineteenth century it was one of the most fashionable in Europe. Kings, tsars and composers came to take the thermal waters, and the town is filled with grand hotels, a colonnaded Kurhaus and a Russian Orthodox church built for the Tsarist visitors. Dostoevsky came to take the cure in the 1870s, and in 1870 an incident in the park gave the town a place in history books.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 1/61.
3. Watchtower WP 1/61
Höhr-Grenzhausen is clay country, and that decides almost everything about this part of the Westerwald. The hills hold a thick seam of fine, high-quality stoneware clay, and for centuries the area has been known as the Kannenbäckerland, the land of the jug makers. Grey salt-glazed pottery with blue decoration, called Westerwald stoneware, was exported across Europe from here, and workshops and a ceramics museum still keep the trade alive. It is a surprising backdrop for a Roman watchtower, but the Romans were here first, and WP 1/61 is one of the numbered posts of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2005.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/61 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 1/61. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a.
4. back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe.
5. 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
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe to Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe → Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a to Watchtower WP 1/61
Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a → Watchtower WP 1/61 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/61 to back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a
Watchtower WP 1/61 → back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a to Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a → Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.