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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A 186 km round trip from Neustadt an der Donau - roughly 3 h 15 in the saddle. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming, Fort site of Burgsalach and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming. The line favours views over speed.
34 km on Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site of Burgsalach.
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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Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
The Altmühl valley is one of the most beautiful river valleys in Bavaria, and near the village of Böhming, a short way upstream from Kipfenberg, the Romans built a small fort to guard the point where their frontier, the Raetian Limes, crossed the river. The Limes here came down from the plateau, crossed the valley and climbed again on the other side, and the fort, with its civil settlement, controlled the crossing and the route along the river. Little is visible today beyond outlines in the fields and a few marked spots, but a stone inscription found here and the finds displayed in the Roman and Bavarian museum in Kipfenberg bring the site to life.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming. Next is 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.
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Fort site of Burgsalach, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up about 152 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld closes the day.
Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → Fort site of Burgsalach is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Burgsalach → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Boehming → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.