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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A 154 km round trip from Pfofeld - roughly 2 h 57 in the saddle. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Romans called it Iciniacum, and for a century and a half it was home to a cavalry unit guarding the Raetian frontier in what is now Middle Franconia. The fort at Theilenhofen, near Gunzenhausen in Bavaria, lay just behind the Limes, the frontier wall that here was built of stone, running across the landscape from the Danube toward the Main. Today there is little above ground, but information panels by the site and the line of the fort traced in the fields help visitors picture it. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005.
Read the complete fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo.
Burgsalach is a quiet village of about twelve hundred people on the high limestone plateau of the Franconian Jura, and the old frontier of the Roman Empire ran right across it. This was the Raetian Limes, a different beast from the timber palisade further north. Here the Romans built in stone, and the remains of the wall, which locals long ascribed to the devil and called the Teufelsmauer, still show up as a low line in the fields and woods. The towers along it were numbered by archaeologists, which is why the label is a string of figures rather than a name.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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.
about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. 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.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, 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 sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo comes up about 130 km into the recorded legs. Next is fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh closes the day.
fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh → Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 25 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 14/29 to 14/62 including fo is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo → fort site and civil settlement of Theilenh is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.