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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79 km from Weißenburg in Bayern to Weißenburg in Bayern, about 1 h 25 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the, Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 and back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Here the frontier changes character. West of the Franconian lakes the Romans built the Raetian Limes not as a palisade but, in its final form, as a stone wall, a metre or so thick and perhaps three high, running across Middle Franconia toward the Danube. Medieval villagers who found its rubble in their fields had no idea who had built it and called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, which tells you how thoroughly the empire had been forgotten. The watchtowers numbered in this section sat along that wall in the farmland around Pfofeld and Gunzenhausen, close to where the line crosses the Altmühl valley.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40.
In the rolling country of Middle Franconia, between Gunzenhausen and Wassertrüdingen, the Raetian Limes ran as a stone wall rather than a wooden palisade. Local people later called its remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing no human could have built such a long barrier. The section near watchtower WP 13/40, close to Arberg and Ornbau, is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site, and in places a low bank of stones in the fields and woods still marks the line.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 write-up.
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about 40 km into the recorded legs you reach Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the, late in the day. Next is 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 at Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb. That is the ride.
Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb → Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 13/40 → back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Weissenb is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.