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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313 km from Weißenburg in Bayern to Weißenburg in Bayern, about 4 h 30 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47, Straubing - Kastell St. Peter and back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Not every Roman fort on the frontier was a great stone fortress. Some were small, temporary or quickly abandoned, and the fort site of Oberhochstatt, on the high plateau above Weißenburg in Bavaria, seems to have been one of these, a modest garrison post on the Raetian Limes. There is little to see today beyond a field, perhaps an information board and the outline of the defences in the grass. But the landscape around is full of Roman history, and the town of Weißenburg, a short ride away, is one of the best places in Germany to experience it.
Read the complete Fort site of Oberhochstatt write-up.
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Fort site of Oberhochstatt is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47.
Up in the hills above the Altmühl valley, west of Neustadt an der Donau and the Danube, the old Raetian frontier crossed some of its prettiest country. The numbers 15/27 to 15/47 cover a long stretch of the line, and because that line follows the ridges and plateau edges, the landscape is a mixture of fields, juniper-dotted limestone slopes and sheltered woods. The Altmühl itself is a slow river that has cut a deep, winding valley through Jurassic limestone, and the whole district is a nature park, known for fossils from the quarries at Solnhofen.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Straubing - Kastell St. Peter, 77 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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about 156 km into the recorded legs you reach Straubing - Kastell St. Peter. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47, late in the day. Next is Fort site of Oberhochstatt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Oberhochstatt write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort site of Oberhochstatt. That is the ride.
Fort site of Oberhochstatt → Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 → Straubing - Kastell St. Peter is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Straubing - Kastell St. Peter → back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 → Fort site of Oberhochstatt is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.