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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From Ober-Mörlen it runs 95 km to Ober-Mörlen; allow about 1 h 48 of riding. It goes by way of Building remains southwest of Saalburg, Watchtower WP 3/38* and back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 16 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Deep in the forest on the eastern slopes of the Taunus, near Ober-Mörlen, the Romans built a small fortlet known today as Eichkopf, after the wooded hill on which it stands. It was one of the many minor installations along the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, the frontier that separated the Roman Empire from the free Germanic tribes, and it housed a small detachment of soldiers who patrolled the line and manned the nearby watchtowers. The outline of the fortlet is still visible as a low rampart and ditch among the trees, and nearby, the line of the frontier itself, with its bank and ditch, can be traced through the forest. It is part of the World Heritage site of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Fortlet Eichkopf write-up.
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Fortlet Eichkopf is where the day begins. Next is Building remains southwest of Saalburg.
If you want to know what a Roman fort on the German frontier really looked like, the Saalburg is the place, and these building remains lie in the forest just southwest of it, part of the civilian and military landscape that grew up around the fort. The Saalburg itself was rebuilt at the beginning of the twentieth century on the orders of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was fascinated by Roman history and keen to present the German empire as the heir of Rome. The walls, gates, headquarters building and granaries were reconstructed on the original foundations, based on the archaeology of the time, and today the fort houses a museum full of finds from the frontier, along with workshops, a Roman garden and regular events with reenactors.
Read the complete Building remains southwest of Saalburg write-up.
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Building remains southwest of Saalburg comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 3/38*.
The Taunus is a range of wooded hills north-west of Frankfurt, rising to 878 metres at the Großer Feldberg, and it has long been the city's playground, with forests, spa towns and winding roads. Through these hills ran the Upper Germanic Limes, the Roman frontier that stretched for over five hundred kilometres across Germany, and one of its watchtowers, numbered WP 3/38, stood near the village of Glashütten, close to Waldems and Königstein im Taunus.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/38* write-up.
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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 3/38*. Next is back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Building remains southwest of Saalburg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg, late in the day. Next is Fortlet Eichkopf.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Eichkopf write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fortlet Eichkopf. That is the ride.
Fortlet Eichkopf → Building remains southwest of Saalburg is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains southwest of Saalburg → Watchtower WP 3/38* is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 3/38* → back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg → Fortlet Eichkopf is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.