Why this ride
269 km from Hüttlingen to Hüttlingen, about 4 h 24 of riding. On the way it passes Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a, Building remains south of Götzingen and back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B and Building remains south of Götzingen
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 269 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 24
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B
Out here on the eastern edge of Württemberg, where the Jagst valley widens into rolling farmland below the Ellwangen hills, the Romans drew a line across the map and then built it in stone. The fort at Rainau-Buch, which the ride labels Reinau-B, sat just behind the Raetian Limes, the frontier that ran from the Rhine toward the Danube. What you find today is a grassy rectangle with low reconstructed wall footings, the outline of a bath house, and the traces of the civilian village that grew up outside the gate, where traders, families and off-duty soldiers lived the way garrison towns always do.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B write-up.
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 Reinau-B is where the day begins. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a.
2. Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a
Mainhardt is a small town in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, a long ridge of wooded hills east of Stuttgart and north of Schwäbisch Hall, and the Romans chose to drop their frontier straight through here. The Upper Germanic Limes runs dead straight for many kilometres in this region, up and down hills without regard to the terrain, because the surveyors drew the line first and let the army follow it. At Mainhardt there was a fort with a garrison of auxiliary soldiers, and the outline can be traced in the ground east of the town. The numbers on the label refer to the watchtowers, small timber and then stone posts that stood at intervals along the line within sight of one another.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Building remains south of Götzingen.
3. Building remains south of Götzingen
Between the Odenwald and the Tauber country lies the Bauland, a high, open plateau of limestone, cornfields and small villages that most travellers cross without slowing down. Just south of Götzingen, among fields and woodland edges between Buchen and Osterburken, are the remains of a Roman building on the line of the Upper Germanic Limes. It is not a grand ruin, more a footprint in the ground, but it belongs to one of the best documented stretches of the frontier, the section that runs straight as a ruler through this part of northern Baden-Württemberg.
Read the complete Building remains south of Götzingen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Building remains south of Götzingen. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a.
4. back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B.
5. Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B 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 Reinau-B. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B to Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a
Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B → Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a to Building remains south of Götzingen
Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a → Building remains south of Götzingen is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains south of Götzingen to back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a
Building remains south of Götzingen → back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a to Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 9/68 a → Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.