CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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341 km from Burgsalach to Burgsalach, about 5 h 32 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7, Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld, Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic and Straubing - Kastell St. Peter. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
34 km on Fort site of Burgsalach → Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
35 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
The small fortlet at Burgsalach stood on the Raetian Limes, the eastern section of Rome's frontier in Germany. Dating from a late phase of the frontier, it had walls of stone and was compact and well defended, more like a small castle than the usual timber watchtower, and its name lives on in the village of Burgsalach nearby. The outline of the walls can still be traced on the ground, and like the rest of the frontier it is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, in the hills of Middle Franconia, the Raetian Limes was not a palisade but a stone wall, which local legend later attributed to the Devil himself, calling it the Teufelsmauer.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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Fort site of Burgsalach is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
In Bavaria, the Roman frontier changed character. Instead of the wooden palisade used in the Upper German section, the Raetian Limes was eventually built as a stone wall, known locally as the Devil's Wall, because medieval people could not imagine anyone but the devil building something so long. The stretch between Watchtowers 15/1 and 15/7 crosses the hills around the Altmühl valley, near Kipfenberg and Kinding, and the line of the wall can still be traced in places as a low ridge in the forest. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld.
Eining is the spot where the Danube Limes and the Raetian Limes meet, or more accurately the place where the wall and ditch ran down to the river and gave way to the water as a frontier. The Romans built a fort here called Abusina, on the south bank, with walls that can still be traced in the fields and a small museum nearby. For soldiers posted to the edge of the empire it must have felt like standing at the end of the world, with the river wide and cold in front of them and Germania on the far bank. The name Unterfeld refers to the lower field beside the fort, a plain, practical label for an ordinary piece of land.
Read the complete Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld write-up.
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about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld. Next is Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic.
There is not much to see at Großprüfening, and that is worth knowing before you arrive expecting walls. The Roman fort and its civil settlement lie on the western edge of Regensburg, close to where the Naab flows into the Danube, and what survives is mostly under fields and houses, known from excavation and aerial photographs rather than from standing masonry. The site is part of the Danube Limes, the river frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and its value is in the position: a garrison watching a river junction, a natural route north into what the Romans considered barbarian country.
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Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic, about halfway. Next is Straubing - Kastell St. Peter, 41 km on.
In 1950, workmen digging in a Straubing suburb found a hoard that stunned archaeologists: a collection of Roman parade armour, helmets with face masks and decorated metal pieces, buried in the third century, probably to hide them from invaders. The Straubing Roman treasure is now one of the most important finds of its kind north of the Alps, and it is displayed in the Gäubodenmuseum in the city. The fort at St Peter, on the eastern edge of town, was part of the same Roman presence. Straubing was Sorviodurum, a Roman town with several forts on the Danube frontier, and this was one of several forts there.
Read the complete Straubing - Kastell St. Peter write-up.
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Straubing - Kastell St. Peter sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic.
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back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic comes up about 225 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld write-up.
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about 264 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7, late in the day. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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The route ends here after 341 km.
Fort site of Burgsalach → Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 → Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld → Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic → Straubing - Kastell St. Peter is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Straubing - Kastell St. Peter → back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic → back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld → back through Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 → Fort site of Burgsalach is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.