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 Höhr-Grenzhausen it runs 87 km to Höhr-Grenzhausen; allow about 1 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a, Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a and back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 22 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 1/35 and 1/35a.
Pumice is the clue to this corner of the Rhineland. About thirteen thousand years ago the Laacher See volcano blew itself apart not far upstream, and the ash and pumice it threw out settled across the Neuwied basin, where it was dug, pressed into building blocks and carted off for centuries. Up on the hills above the basin, near Melsbach and Rengsdorf, the Romans chose the high ground for a pair of small watchtowers, one of which carries an extra letter in its number because archaeologists found a second structure next to it. They were part of the Upper Germanic Limes, which begins at the Rhine only a few kilometres away.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a.
Two thousand years ago, the frontier of the Roman Empire in Germany began right here. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, a line of watchtowers, forts, palisades and ditches stretching more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube, started on the right bank of the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, and the watchtowers numbered WP 1/1 and onwards marched away from the river into the wooded hills. This little section between Rheinbrohl and Bad Hönningen is the very beginning of the line, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a, 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.
Back at Fortlet Ferbach. That is the ride.
Fortlet Ferbach → Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a → Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a → back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a → Fortlet Ferbach is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.