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 Holzhausen an der Haide it runs 325 km to Holzhausen an der Haide; allow about 4 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22, Fortlet Lochmühle, Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg and Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 36 km of Fortlet Lochmühle → Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg.
53 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.
In the second century, the Roman frontier in Germany ran across the hills of the Taunus north of the Rhine as a line of wooden palisades, ditches, earth banks, watchtowers and forts, stretching over five hundred kilometres from the Rhine to the Danube. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, as it is called, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, listed by UNESCO in 2005, and the fortlet of Pfarrhofen, near Holzhausen an der Haide in the western Taunus, is one of the many small installations along its course. A fortlet was a small fort with a garrison of a few dozen men, guarding a road crossing or a section of the frontier between larger forts.
Read the complete Fortlet of Pfarrhofen write-up.
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Fortlet of Pfarrhofen is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22.
The Taunus is the low, wooded range north of Frankfurt, and the Romans chose it as the place to draw their line. The Limes crossed the ridge at a height that gave good views over both sides, and watchtowers placed close together made it possible to send signals by fire and smoke from tower to tower. The numbers, such as WP 3/20, are from the survey carried out by German archaeologists at the end of the nineteenth century, and they refer to the third section of the line. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes was listed by UNESCO in 2005.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortlet Lochmühle.
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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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortlet Lochmühle. 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 Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge.
East of Frankfurt, on the low ground where the Kinzig valley opens toward Hanau, the Romans pushed their frontier forward in the late first century AD. Rückingen, today a part of Erlensee, was the site of a fort with a civil settlement around it, part of the Wetterau section of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Limes here ran south toward the Main, and the forts guarded crossings and roads leading into the Roman province. As with most of the frontier in this area, there is little to see above ground, but the line of the Limes is marked and explained along cycle and walking routes.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through 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.
about 252 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fortlet Lochmühle. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22, late in the day. Next is Fortlet of Pfarrhofen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet of Pfarrhofen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 325 km.
Fortlet of Pfarrhofen → Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 → Fortlet Lochmühle is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Lochmühle → Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg → Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Rückinge → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Arnsburg → back through Fortlet Lochmühle is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlet Lochmühle → back through Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 3/20 to 3/22 → Fortlet of Pfarrhofen is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.