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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183 km from Hüttlingen to Hüttlingen, about 3 h 17 of riding. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb, Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim, Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb.
The Rems valley runs east from Stuttgart towards the edge of the Swabian Jura, and Unterböbingen lies just outside the village of Böbingen, with Heubach three kilometres on and the long wooded wall of the Alb rising behind. The ground here is gently rolling farmland, orchards, small fields and the occasional church spire, the kind of country that looks entirely ordinary until you remember who once held it.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim.
Welzheim had not one but two Roman forts, and that alone tells you how seriously the frontier was taken in the Swabian Forest. The larger west fort held a cavalry unit, while the smaller east fort, now an archaeological park on the edge of town, housed an auxiliary infantry detachment. At the east fort the west gate has been rebuilt to its full height, and standing in front of it you get a rare sense of scale that low foundations never give. Around both forts lay the civil settlement, the vicus, with workshops, taverns and homes.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
Mainhardt sits on a ridge in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, and the Roman frontier ran right through it, on its way south in one of the longest straight lines ever drawn across European landscape. Here, the Upper Germanic Limes runs for some eighty kilometres from Walldürn to near Welzheim almost perfectly straight, ignoring hills and valleys, as if surveyors had laid a ruler on the map. The watchtowers numbered in this section stood along that line in the forest, and Mainhardt had a fort, whose site is marked in the village, with a small museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb comes up about 157 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B closes the day.
Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B → Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb → Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim → Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Welzheim → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb → Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.