Why this ride
An 82 km round trip from Burgsalach - roughly 1 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 and back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fort site of Burgsalach and Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 82 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 19
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Scenic road chapters
Fort site of Burgsalach → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
This part of the ride is 20 km of Fort site of Burgsalach → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 20 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fort site of Burgsalach
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort site of Burgsalach is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
2. Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo comes up 19 km in. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
3. Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
The Raetian Limes, the eastern stretch of Rome's frontier in Germany, was built differently from its western counterpart. Instead of a wooden palisade, the Romans eventually raised a stone wall here, running for over a hundred and sixty kilometres across what is now Bavaria, towards the Danube. Locals later called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, convinced that only a demon could have built something so long. Watchtowers stood along it every few hundred metres, and the group between WP 15/8 and 15/10, in the hills between Greding and Dietfurt, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. In places, low remains of the wall and towers can be traced in the forest and fields.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
39 km in you reach Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
4. back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo 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 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, late in the day. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
5. Fort site of Burgsalach
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach 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 of Burgsalach. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fort site of Burgsalach to Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
Fort site of Burgsalach → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo to Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 to back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo to Fort site of Burgsalach
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Fort site of Burgsalach is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.