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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Adelsheim it runs 317 km to Adelsheim; allow about 5 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn, Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur, Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens and Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor. 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 43 km this is German Fairy Tale Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, was born in Jagsthausen around 1480, and he is remembered for a rude phrase he supposedly shouted at an enemy, made famous by Goethe in his play about the knight. Jagsthausen's castle, where Götz grew up, hosts an open-air theatre festival every summer, and the iron hand, a prosthesis he wore after losing his right hand in battle, is displayed there. A few kilometres away, in the fields near Widdern, the fortlet of Lehnenwiesen was a small Roman post on the Upper Germanic Limes, part of the chain of forts and watchtowers that ran through this landscape.
Read the complete Fortlet Lehnenwiesen write-up.
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Fortlet Lehnenwiesen is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
Walldürn sits on the high, rolling plateau where the Odenwald meets the Bauland, a gentle landscape of fields, woods and small towns in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg. The Romans came here in the second century AD, when the Upper German Limes was pushed forward to a new line running almost straight through the countryside, and they built a small fort at Walldürn with a civil settlement beside it, where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. The remains of a bath house have been excavated and conserved, and the line of the frontier, with its watchtowers and palisade, runs nearby. The Upper German-Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, became a UNESCO site in 2005.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur.
For a stretch of about fifty kilometres the Romans let the River Main do the work of a wall. Between Miltenberg and Grosskrotzenburg, the frontier of the Upper Germanic Limes followed the river instead of running as a palisade across country, and a chain of forts sat along its west bank. Trennfurt, a village now part of Klingenberg am Main, was one of them: a fort with its civilian settlement, the vicus, where traders, craftsmen and soldiers' families lived. It is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and as with many Limes sites, most of what survives lies under fields and gardens rather than standing proud.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur write-up.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens.
Seligenstadt is one of those Main valley towns where every era has left something on the table. The Romans came first: here the frontier of the Upper German-Raetian Limes ran along the river itself, and a fort with a civilian settlement around it guarded the Main crossing. The fort site lies under the old town, so you are walking over it rather than looking at it, but the logic of the place is obvious when you stand by the water. The river was the border, the road and the supply line all at once.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens, about halfway. Next is Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor.
The Wetterau is a broad, fertile basin north of Frankfurt, a land of rich loess soils, wheat fields, orchards and old villages, and the Romans wanted it badly. Their frontier, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, bulged out here to take in the whole basin, looping around it in a wide arc. At Ober-Florstadt stood a fort with a civilian settlement beside it, where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. Today little is visible, but the site is part of the World Heritage frontier, and information boards help to picture the scene.
Read the complete Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor write-up.
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Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens comes up about 201 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur write-up.
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about 245 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn, late in the day. Next is Fortlet Lehnenwiesen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Lehnenwiesen write-up.
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The route ends here after 317 km.
Fortlet Lehnenwiesen → Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn → Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur → Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens → Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Seligens → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Trennfur → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn → Fortlet Lehnenwiesen is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.