CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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150 km from Walldürn to Walldürn, about 2 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe, Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb, Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Walldürn sits on the high, rolling plateau where the Odenwald meets the Bauland, a gentle landscape of fields, woods and small towns in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg. The Romans came here in the second century AD, when the Upper German Limes was pushed forward to a new line running almost straight through the countryside, and they built a small fort at Walldürn with a civil settlement beside it, where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. The remains of a bath house have been excavated and conserved, and the line of the frontier, with its watchtowers and palisade, runs nearby. The Upper German-Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, became a UNESCO site in 2005.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe.
Miltenberg is one of those German towns that seem almost too pretty to be real, with half-timbered houses leaning over the cobbled streets, a market square sloping down toward the river, a castle on the hill above and the Main flowing slowly past. The Romans were here first. Two forts guarded this point on the frontier, one near the old town and another to the east, where the Limes left the river and ran overland through the Odenwald, and the sites, with their civilian settlements, are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. A museum in the town displays finds from the forts.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb.
For one stretch of the Roman frontier in Germany, the soldiers did not need to build a wall at all. Between Großkrotzenburg and Miltenberg, the Main river itself served as the border, the so-called wet Limes, guarded by a chain of forts along its western bank. Niedernberg, a village on the river just below Aschaffenburg, was one of them, with a fort and a civilian settlement beside it. Little survives above ground today; the remains lie beneath fields and houses. But the Main still flows past, broad and slow, and it is easy to picture patrol boats and soldiers watching the far bank. The site is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb write-up.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe comes up about 125 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn closes the day.
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn → Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe → Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb → Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niedernb → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe → Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.