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 244 km round trip from Wehrheim - roughly 3 h 21 in the saddle. The stops in between: Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl and back through Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Fortlet Lochmühle → Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt for 59 km.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt.
On a low hill above Darmstadt, at the very end of the nineteenth century, the young Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse decided to gather artists and let them build a new way of living. The Mathildenhöhe became an artists' colony from 1899, and its buildings are some of the best Jugendstil, the German Art Nouveau, anywhere. UNESCO listed the ensemble in 2021. Joseph Maria Olbrich designed most of the first generation, including the exhibition hall and the tall Wedding Tower, with its fingers of brick at the top, finished in 1908 as a gift for the Grand Duke's marriage.
Read the complete Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt write-up.
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Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt comes up about 59 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl.
At Miltenberg, the Roman frontier did something unusual: it stopped being a wall and became a river. North of the town, the Main served as the frontier for some fifty kilometres, guarded by forts and watchtowers along its western bank, and here, where the river bends, the land frontier began again, heading south through the Odenwald. The watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 belong to this stretch, and while most are only traces in fields and forests, they are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Romans built forts at Miltenberg, too, and some of their finds are displayed in the town museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl write-up.
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about 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl. Next is back through Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, late in the day. 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.
Back at Fortlet Lochmühle. That is the ride.
Fortlet Lochmühle → Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt → Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl → back through Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt → Fortlet Lochmühle is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.