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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A 199 km round trip from Wehrheim - roughly 2 h 27 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach, Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor, Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg and back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor. The line favours views over speed.
The ride follows Fortlet Lochmühle → Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach for 28 km.
26 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fortlet Lochmühle is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach.
Butzbach lies in the Wetterau, a fertile, rolling plain north of Frankfurt, with the wooded Taunus hills rising to the south. In Roman times, the Limes, the frontier of the Empire, ran through this country, and a fort stood on the site of today's town, with a civil settlement, or vicus, growing beside it to serve the soldiers. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, a stretch of palisade, ditch and wall that ran for hundreds of kilometres, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Butzbach is one of the places along its line.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach comes up about 173 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortlet Lochmühle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Lochmühle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fortlet Lochmühle closes the day.
Fortlet Lochmühle → Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach → Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor → Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg → back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach → Fortlet Lochmühle is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.