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 Schwäbisch Gmünd it runs 82 km to Schwäbisch Gmünd; allow about 1 h 18 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb, Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb. The line favours views over speed.
Schwäbisch Gmünd sits in the Rems valley below the Swabian Jura, at the foot of the hill where the Staufer dynasty built their castle, and the Roman frontier ran through the same country. The Upper Germanic Limes crosses the Rems valley near here, and at Freimühle a small fortlet was set on the slope above the river to watch the line, a modest square of earth bank that archaeologists have traced and the town has marked. It is a quiet and easily missed spot, but a nice reminder that the Romans knew a good viewpoint.
Read the complete Fortlet of Freimühle write-up.
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Fortlet of Freimühle is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb.
The Rems valley runs east from Stuttgart towards the edge of the Swabian Jura, and Unterböbingen lies just outside the village of Böbingen, with Heubach three kilometres on and the long wooded wall of the Alb rising behind. The ground here is gently rolling farmland, orchards, small fields and the occasional church spire, the kind of country that looks entirely ordinary until you remember who once held it.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B.
Out here on the eastern edge of Württemberg, where the Jagst valley widens into rolling farmland below the Ellwangen hills, the Romans drew a line across the map and then built it in stone. The fort at Rainau-Buch, which the ride labels Reinau-B, sat just behind the Raetian Limes, the frontier that ran from the Rhine toward the Danube. What you find today is a grassy rectangle with low reconstructed wall footings, the outline of a bath house, and the traces of the civilian village that grew up outside the gate, where traders, families and off-duty soldiers lived the way garrison towns always do.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B write-up.
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about 40 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb, late in the day. Next is Fortlet of Freimühle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet of Freimühle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fortlet of Freimühle. That is the ride.
Fortlet of Freimühle → Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb → Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Unterböb → Fortlet of Freimühle is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.