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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From Heubach it runs 164 km to Heubach; allow about 2 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B, Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a, Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 and back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 31 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a.
In the fields near Wilburgstetten, in the west of Franconia, a low ridge runs across the landscape, overgrown with grass and bushes. It looks like nothing much, but it is the remains of the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the frontier of the Roman province of Raetia in the second and third centuries. Unlike the Upper German Limes to the north west, which was mostly a palisade and ditch, the Raetian section was eventually built as a continuous stone wall, more than a hundred and sixty kilometres long. Local people later called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing it could only have been built by supernatural forces. The section between watchtowers here is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a write-up.
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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40.
In this corner of Franconia, the Roman frontier is a straight line. From the Danube near Eining the Raetian Limes ran north and then swung west across a quiet landscape of low hills and fields, and in the section near Wassertrudingen, the line is as ruler-straight as anything the Romans ever built. Here the frontier was a stone wall, unlike the timber palisade further north, and it ran between towers numbered by archaeologists. The group 13/37 to 13/40 is a short stretch of that wall and its watchtowers.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40, about halfway. Next is back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a write-up.
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back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through 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.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B comes up about 136 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb closes the day.
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.
Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B → Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a → Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 → back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B → Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.