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 232 km round trip from Wassertrüdingen - roughly 4 h 12 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. 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.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb.
Under the modern town of Weißenburg, in Franconia, lie the remains of a Roman fort called Biriciana, and it holds one of the best finds of the frontier. The fort was built in the second century to guard the line of the Raetian Limes, and a civil settlement grew up next to it, and in the third century it had a bathhouse that is the best preserved Roman bath north of the Alps. The walls of the baths still stand to a good height, with the heating system, the changing rooms and the pools, and a modern building protects them. Next to the baths is a museum, which holds a hoard of silver and bronze objects found in 1979 during building work, including statuettes of gods that were buried in a pit, probably to hide them.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb comes up about 36 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.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47.
Up in the hills above the Altmühl valley, west of Neustadt an der Donau and the Danube, the old Raetian frontier crossed some of its prettiest country. The numbers 15/27 to 15/47 cover a long stretch of the line, and because that line follows the ridges and plateau edges, the landscape is a mixture of fields, juniper-dotted limestone slopes and sheltered woods. The Altmühl itself is a slow river that has cut a deep, winding valley through Jurassic limestone, and the whole district is a nature park, known for fossils from the quarries at Solnhofen.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47, 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.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch closes the day.
Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch → Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 44 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 Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb → Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.