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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From Neustadt an der Donau it runs 190 km to Neustadt an der Donau; allow about 3 h 11 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10, Fort site of Burgsalach, fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh and back through Fort site of Burgsalach. The line favours views over speed.
The ride follows Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → Fort site of Burgsalach for 41 km.
Between Ingolstadt and Kelheim, the Danube flows through a broad, flat valley in Bavaria, with hop gardens, fields of maize and asparagus beds on its banks. Pförring is a small market town on the north bank, with Neustadt an der Donau and Vohburg on the other side. In Roman times, this was the frontier: the Raetian Limes ended at the Danube just downstream, and the Romans built a fort here, known as Celeusum, with a civil settlement outside its walls.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
The Raetian Limes, the eastern stretch of Rome's frontier in Germany, was built differently from its western counterpart. Instead of a wooden palisade, the Romans eventually raised a stone wall here, running for over a hundred and sixty kilometres across what is now Bavaria, towards the Danube. Locals later called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, convinced that only a demon could have built something so long. Watchtowers stood along it every few hundred metres, and the group between WP 15/8 and 15/10, in the hills between Greding and Dietfurt, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. In places, low remains of the wall and towers can be traced in the forest and fields.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
The small fortlet at Burgsalach stood on the Raetian Limes, the eastern section of Rome's frontier in Germany. Dating from a late phase of the frontier, it had walls of stone and was compact and well defended, more like a small castle than the usual timber watchtower, and its name lives on in the village of Burgsalach nearby. The outline of the walls can still be traced on the ground, and like the rest of the frontier it is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, in the hills of Middle Franconia, the Raetian Limes was not a palisade but a stone wall, which local legend later attributed to the Devil himself, calling it the Teufelsmauer.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site of Burgsalach. Next is fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh.
The Romans called it Iciniacum, and for a century and a half it was home to a cavalry unit guarding the Raetian frontier in what is now Middle Franconia. The fort at Theilenhofen, near Gunzenhausen in Bavaria, lay just behind the Limes, the frontier wall that here was built of stone, running across the landscape from the Danube toward the Main. Today there is little above ground, but information panels by the site and the line of the fort traced in the fields help visitors picture it. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005.
Read the complete fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh write-up.
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fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site of Burgsalach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 comes up about 161 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin closes the day.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → Fort site of Burgsalach is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Burgsalach → fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh → back through Fort site of Burgsalach is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach → back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.