Why this ride
93 km from Walldürn to Walldürn, about 1 h 37 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort, Fortlet Lehnenwiesen and back through Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn and Fortlet Lehnenwiesen
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 93 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 37
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort.
2. Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort
The Romans did not much care for the shape of the land when they drew this frontier. Around Osterburken the Upper Germanic Limes stops following valleys and ridges and simply runs in long, stubborn straight lines across the Bauland, the rolling limestone country between the Odenwald and the Jagst. The watchtower sites numbered in this stretch were once timber, then stone, posts spaced so that each could see its neighbours, strung along a palisade and ditch that marked where the province ended and the unconquered north began.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortlet Lehnenwiesen.
3. Fortlet Lehnenwiesen
Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, was born in Jagsthausen around 1480, and he is remembered for a rude phrase he supposedly shouted at an enemy, made famous by Goethe in his play about the knight. Jagsthausen's castle, where Götz grew up, hosts an open-air theatre festival every summer, and the iron hand, a prosthesis he wore after losing his right hand in battle, is displayed there. A few kilometres away, in the fields near Widdern, the fortlet of Lehnenwiesen was a small Roman post on the Upper Germanic Limes, part of the chain of forts and watchtowers that ran through this landscape.
Read the complete Fortlet Lehnenwiesen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortlet Lehnenwiesen. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort.
4. back through Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort, late in the day. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
5. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn to Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn → Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort to Fortlet Lehnenwiesen
Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort → Fortlet Lehnenwiesen is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Lehnenwiesen to back through Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort
Fortlet Lehnenwiesen → back through Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort to Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn
back through Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort → Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.