CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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208 km from Eichstätt to Eichstätt, about 3 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, Fort site and civil settlement of Eining, Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 37 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up 30 km in. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Eining.
The Danube here is already a serious river, and about two thousand years ago it was the edge of the Roman Empire. Abusina, the Roman fort at Eining, stood on the south bank, where a small tributary joins, and its soldiers watched the Germanic lands across the water. The site lies in a bend a few kilometres from Neustadt an der Donau, and what remains are the foundations of a fort that was rebuilt several times, and of a civilian settlement, with a bath house, whose walls you can see outlined in the grass. The fort ended its life in the fifth century, in the unsettled times when Rome let go of the frontier.
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60 km in you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Eining. Next is Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic.
There is not much to see at Großprüfening, and that is worth knowing before you arrive expecting walls. The Roman fort and its civil settlement lie on the western edge of Regensburg, close to where the Naab flows into the Danube, and what survives is mostly under fields and houses, known from excavation and aerial photographs rather than from standing masonry. The site is part of the Danube Limes, the river frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and its value is in the position: a garrison watching a river junction, a natural route north into what the Romans considered barbarian country.
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Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining sits at 120 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up 150 km in. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz closes the day.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Fort site and civil settlement of Eining is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Eining → Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.