CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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238 km from Butzbach to Butzbach, about 2 h 54 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the, Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe and back through Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Dicker Wald, the thick forest, is a good name for a place where a Roman fortlet once stood among trees. The fortlet was a small post on the Wetterau Limes, the frontier line that curves around the plain north of Frankfurt, and it sat just inside woodland that still covers much of the hill. What you find today are low earthworks and the outline of a small enclosure, but the surrounding forest gives a good sense of the lonely, damp setting soldiers would have known. The Limes was a frontier of watchtowers, small forts and larger garrisons, all linked by a path and a palisade.
Read the complete Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 write-up.
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Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the.
The Main river is where the Roman frontier changes character. Coming down from the north, the Limes runs in a long arc through the Wetterau and then meets the river near Großkrotzenburg, and from there the Romans used the Main itself as the boundary, with towers and forts strung along its bank. The numbers 5/13 and 5/14 belong to that river line, and a fort and its civilian settlement sit close by. On the ground, expect a marker, a low rise and a view down toward the water rather than anything dramatic.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe.
Miltenberg is one of those German towns that seem almost too pretty to be real, with half-timbered houses leaning over the cobbled streets, a market square sloping down toward the river, a castle on the hill above and the Main flowing slowly past. The Romans were here first. Two forts guarded this point on the frontier, one near the old town and another to the east, where the Limes left the river and ran overland through the Odenwald, and the sites, with their civilian settlements, are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. A museum in the town displays finds from the forts.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe write-up.
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about 119 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the, late in the day. Next is Fortlet Dicker Wald 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fortlet Dicker Wald 1. That is the ride.
Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 → Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe → back through Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the → Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.