Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin and Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 · 251 km from Neustadt an der Donau

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1. 1. Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin

   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.

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   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 Pfoerrin is where the day begins. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.

2. 2. 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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Fort site of Burgsalach comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15.

3. 3. Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15

   Dinkelsbühl looks like a stage set, and the people who live there have worked hard to keep it that way. The old town, with its ring of walls, towers and gates, its half-timbered houses and the huge Gothic church of St George, survived the wars and the bombing that destroyed so many German towns, and it is one of the best preserved medieval towns on the Romantic Road. Each July the Kinderzeche, a festival that recalls the story of local children who saved the town during the Thirty Years' War, fills the streets with costumes and music.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15. Next is back through Fort site of Burgsalach.

4. 4. back through Fort site of Burgsalach

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   back through Fort site of Burgsalach, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.

5. 5. 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.

   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 Pfoerrin. That is the ride.