CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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230 km from Seligenstadt to Seligenstadt, about 2 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge, Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor, Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald and Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 24 km this is German Fairy Tale Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Seligenstadt is one of those Main valley towns where every era has left something on the table. The Romans came first: here the frontier of the Upper German-Raetian Limes ran along the river itself, and a fort with a civilian settlement around it guarded the Main crossing. The fort site lies under the old town, so you are walking over it rather than looking at it, but the logic of the place is obvious when you stand by the water. The river was the border, the road and the supply line all at once.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge.
East of Frankfurt, on the low ground where the Kinzig valley opens toward Hanau, the Romans pushed their frontier forward in the late first century AD. Rückingen, today a part of Erlensee, was the site of a fort with a civil settlement around it, part of the Wetterau section of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Limes here ran south toward the Main, and the forts guarded crossings and roads leading into the Roman province. As with most of the frontier in this area, there is little to see above ground, but the line of the Limes is marked and explained along cycle and walking routes.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor.
The Wetterau is a broad, fertile basin north of Frankfurt, a land of rich loess soils, wheat fields, orchards and old villages, and the Romans wanted it badly. Their frontier, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, bulged out here to take in the whole basin, looping around it in a wide arc. At Ober-Florstadt stood a fort with a civilian settlement beside it, where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. Today little is visible, but the site is part of the World Heritage frontier, and information boards help to picture the scene.
Read the complete Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor write-up.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor. Next is Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald.
The Roman frontier in Germany, the Limes, ran for over five hundred kilometres from the Rhine to the Danube, a line of palisades, ditches, walls, watchtowers and forts that marked the edge of the empire. In the Wetterau, north of Frankfurt, the Limes swung east in a great bulge to enclose this fertile plain, which the Romans valued for its farmland. In the woods near Wölfersheim stood a signal tower, one of the many small posts along the line, and today its remains are part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald write-up.
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Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha.
Elvis Presley spent his military service in Friedberg, a few kilometres from here, from 1958 to 1960, and lived in a rented house in the spa town of Bad Nauheim, where fans still leave messages on the wall outside and a square in the town bears his name. But nearly two thousand years earlier, other soldiers served in this region. The Roman frontier of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, a World Heritage site, ran along the edge of the Taunus hills here, and at Langenhain, near Ober-Mörlen, the Romans built a fort with a civil settlement beside it, where traders, craftsmen and the families of soldiers lived. Today, the site is mostly fields and meadows, with information boards to help you imagine the walls, gates and buildings that once stood here.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha sits at 79 km, about halfway. Next is back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald write-up.
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back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald comes up about 150 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 230 km.
Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens → Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge → Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor → Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha → back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge → Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.