CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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217 km from Wassertrüdingen to Wassertrüdingen, about 3 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb, Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets and back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the fields near Wassertrüdingen, in the soft valley of the Wörnitz and the hills of Middle Franconia, lie the buried remains of a Roman fort that once held an auxiliary unit of several hundred soldiers. Unterschwaningen was one of the larger posts on the Raetian section of the frontier, built in the second century to guard the line and the road behind it. Around it, as at every fort, a civilian settlement grew up, with houses, workshops, bathhouses and a cemetery, and the place must have been noisy and smoky, the roar of a small frontier town. Today the area is mostly farmland, and the outlines are visible only from the air, in dry summers, when crop marks trace the walls.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb.
Weißenburg in Bayern is the best Roman stop in this part of Franconia, and the fort here, known in antiquity as Biriciana, was a serious place. It stood on the Upper German-Raetian Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2005, and it held a cavalry unit at its height. Today you can walk the reconstructed gate and walls and then visit the Roman baths, which are among the best preserved in southern Germany and sit under a modern roof beside the old town. In 1979, builders found a hoard of bronze and silver objects buried in the fort's grounds, the Weißenburg treasure, which includes ceremonial armour, and it is now one of the key finds of Roman Bavaria.
Read the complete Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb write-up.
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Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb comes up 32 km in. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
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65 km in you reach Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
The Altmühl valley in Bavaria is one of Germany's best kept riding secrets, a winding river valley cut deep into Jurassic limestone, lined with juniper heaths, rock towers and castles. Near where the valley meets the Danube, the Roman frontier, the Raetian Limes, ran across the land, and the stretch of watchtowers and small forts numbered WP 15/11 to 15/26 lies in the wooded hills here, between Riedenburg, Dietfurt and the Danube town of Vohburg.
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Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo sits at 129 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb comes up 162 km in. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch closes the day.
Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch → Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → back through Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil setllement of Weissenb → Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.