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 185 km to Neustadt an der Donau; allow about 3 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz and Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
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 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
The Altmühl valley in Bavaria is one of Germany's best kept riding secrets, a winding river valley cut deep into Jurassic limestone, lined with juniper heaths, rock towers and castles. Near where the valley meets the Danube, the Roman frontier, the Raetian Limes, ran across the land, and the stretch of watchtowers and small forts numbered WP 15/11 to 15/26 lies in the wooded hills here, between Riedenburg, Dietfurt and the Danube town of Vohburg.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets comes up about 12 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
In Bavaria, the Roman frontier changed character. Instead of the wooden palisade used in the Upper German section, the Raetian Limes was eventually built as a stone wall, known locally as the Devil's Wall, because medieval people could not imagine anyone but the devil building something so long. The stretch between Watchtowers 15/1 and 15/7 crosses the hills around the Altmühl valley, near Kipfenberg and Kinding, and the line of the wall can still be traced in places as a low ridge in the forest. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
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about 35 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Above the village of Pfünz, on a spur of white Jura limestone looking down into the Altmühl valley, the Romans built a fort they called Vetoniana. Today a reconstructed gate and a stretch of wall stand on the hilltop, and from up there you understand the choice at once: the valley floor curls below you, the river meanders slowly, and anyone moving along it would have been seen hours before they arrived.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, about halfway. 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.
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Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 sits at 71 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz comes up about 130 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, 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 185 km.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → back through Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 → back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.