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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A 304 km round trip from Neustadt an der Donau - roughly 5 h 23 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming, Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen, Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 and Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 39 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
The Altmühl valley is one of the most beautiful river valleys in Bavaria, and near the village of Böhming, a short way upstream from Kipfenberg, the Romans built a small fort to guard the point where their frontier, the Raetian Limes, crossed the river. The Limes here came down from the plateau, crossed the valley and climbed again on the other side, and the fort, with its civil settlement, controlled the crossing and the route along the river. Little is visible today beyond outlines in the fields and a few marked spots, but a stone inscription found here and the finds displayed in the Roman and Bavarian museum in Kipfenberg bring the site to life.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen.
Ellingen is a small town that punches well above its weight. Its centre is dominated by a vast baroque palace built by the Teutonic Order, the German crusading knights who later became a religious and administrative order, and who ran a commandery here for centuries. The palace, with its church, courtyards and gardens, is far grander than you would expect in such a small place. Just outside the town, the Romans had an earlier presence: a fort called Sablonetum stood here on the Raetian Limes, with a civil settlement beside it, guarding the frontier as it crossed the countryside north of Weißenburg. Its outline has been marked in the fields, and it is part of the World Heritage site of the Upper German-Raetian Limes.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen write-up.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40.
In the rolling country of Middle Franconia, between Gunzenhausen and Wassertrüdingen, the Raetian Limes ran as a stone wall rather than a wooden palisade. Local people later called its remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing no human could have built such a long barrier. The section near watchtower WP 13/40, close to Arberg and Ornbau, is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site, and in places a low bank of stones in the fields and woods still marks the line.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for.
Near Rainau, not far from here, the Romans built a monumental gate in the Raetian Limes, a showpiece entrance probably connected with a visit by the emperor Caracalla in the early third century. Today the Limestor Dalkingen is protected under a glass and steel shelter, an impressive sight. The watchtowers numbered in this section, around Stödtlen, Wört and Tannhausen, were part of the same frontier, which ran here as a stone wall across the hilly country between the Ries crater and the Swabian Forest, toward the Danube.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 comes up about 192 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen write-up.
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about 221 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming, late in the day. 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.
The route ends here after 304 km.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen → Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 → Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for → back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Ellingen → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.