Why this ride
An 87 km round trip from Bad Hönningen - roughly 1 h 33 in the saddle. The stops in between: Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34, Watchtower WP 1/62 and back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fortlet Rheinbohl and Watchtower WP 1/62
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 87 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 33
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Moselle Wine Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 22 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 22 km
- Named road
- Moselle Wine Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fortlet Rheinbohl
Rheinbrohl is where Germany's longest Roman frontier begins. The Upper Germanic Limes, a line of watchtowers, palisades and forts, starts at the Rhine here and runs east and south for some five hundred kilometres across Germany. At the Rheinbohl fortlet you can see the lines of a small Roman post, a few dozen soldiers who watched the river approach and the crossing over to the left bank. It is a modest place in terms of stonework, but the idea is wonderfully clear: an empire decided that this is where it ended, and put a post on the end of it.
Read the complete Fortlet Rheinbohl write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fortlet Rheinbohl is where the day begins. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34.
2. Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34
North of Neuwied, the hills of the Westerwald rise steeply from the Rhine, and through their forests ran the Roman frontier known as the Upper German-Raetian Limes. The section between the watchtowers numbered WP 1/34 and its neighbours lies near Melsbach and Rengsdorf, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2005 for this stretch. The Limes began on the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, a little downstream, and ran for over 500 kilometres to the Danube, a line of wooden palisades, ditches, ramparts and watchtowers.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 1/62.
3. Watchtower WP 1/62
Höhr-Grenzhausen smells faintly of kilns if you catch it on the right day. This small town on the western edge of the Westerwald, a few kilometres north-east of Koblenz, sits at the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' country, where potters have been turning the local grey clay into salt-glazed stoneware for centuries. The Roman frontier passed right through here too, and watchtower WP 1/62 was one of the posts on the Upper Germanic Limes as it ran across these hills, now part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/62 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 1/62. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34.
4. back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34, late in the day. Next is Fortlet Rheinbohl.
5. Fortlet Rheinbohl
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Rheinbohl write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Fortlet Rheinbohl. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fortlet Rheinbohl to Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34
Fortlet Rheinbohl → Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 to Watchtower WP 1/62
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 → Watchtower WP 1/62 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/62 to back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34
Watchtower WP 1/62 → back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 to Fortlet Rheinbohl
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 → Fortlet Rheinbohl is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.