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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305 km from Höhr-Grenzhausen to Höhr-Grenzhausen, about 4 h 47 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f, Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22, Fortlet Lochmühle and Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg. The line favours views over speed.
For about 43 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
This part of the ride is 36 km of Fortlet Lochmühle → Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg.
The Limes was a frontier made of many small pieces, and Ferbach is one of the little ones. It was a fortlet, a small stone-and-timber post on the Upper Germanic frontier that ran from the Rhine into the hills of the Westerwald, and it housed a handful of soldiers who watched the ground in front of them. Nothing here is grand. What you find is a wooded plateau with traces of ditches and the outline of a small enclosure, and the interest lies in imagining the daily routine of men on a frontier posted far from Rome.
Read the complete Fortlet Ferbach write-up.
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Fortlet Ferbach is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
North of the Taunus ridge, the Limes crossed a high, open plateau between the Rhine and the Lahn, and the stretch with watchtowers 2/23 to 2/26 runs through the farmland and woods near Miehlen and Singhofen in the Rhein-Lahn district. The remains here are subtle, mostly low banks and the traces of towers in fields and forest edges, but the line of the frontier is marked by the long-distance Limes trail and information boards. This is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, a stretch of the line that few visitors ever see.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
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Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22.
The Taunus is the low, wooded range north of Frankfurt, and the Romans chose it as the place to draw their line. The Limes crossed the ridge at a height that gave good views over both sides, and watchtowers placed close together made it possible to send signals by fire and smoke from tower to tower. The numbers, such as WP 3/20, are from the survey carried out by German archaeologists at the end of the nineteenth century, and they refer to the third section of the line. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes was listed by UNESCO in 2005.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 write-up.
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about 80 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22. Next is Fortlet Lochmühle.
The Lochmühle is a small fortlet on the Limes in the Taunus, near Wehrheim and the famous Saalburg, and it guarded a spot where the frontier crossed the valley of the Erlenbach stream. Fortlets like this were small outposts, housing a handful of soldiers who watched the border and controlled traffic, and they formed a link between the watchtowers and the larger forts. Its remains are modest, but the location, in a quiet valley surrounded by forest, has a peaceful charm. The name comes from a nearby mill, now a popular leisure park for families with play areas and farm animals.
Read the complete Fortlet Lochmühle write-up.
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Fortlet Lochmühle, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg.
Arnsburg confuses people, and for good reason. The name belongs first to a Cistercian monastery in the Wetter valley near Lich, whose roofless Gothic church stands in a meadow as one of the most romantic ruins in Hesse. But on the wooded hill nearby lies an older layer: a Roman fort on the Limes, sometimes called the Alteburg, with its civil settlement, and the frontier itself running past on its way around the northern edge of the Wetterau.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fortlet Lochmühle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Lochmühle write-up.
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back through Fortlet Lochmühle comes up about 190 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 227 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22. Next is back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f, late in the day. Next is Fortlet Ferbach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Ferbach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 305 km.
Fortlet Ferbach → Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 → Fortlet Lochmühle is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Lochmühle → Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg → back through Fortlet Lochmühle is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlet Lochmühle → back through Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 → back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → Fortlet Ferbach is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.