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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92 km from Echzell to Echzell, about 1 h 26 of riding. On the way it passes Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor, Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel and back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Wingertsberg is a low hill on the western edge of the Vogelsberg, near the small town of Hungen in Hesse, and the Roman fortlet that stood here was one of a series of small outposts along the Wetterau Limes. A fortlet held perhaps a few dozen men, enough to watch the line and signal to the main forts. Little survives above ground, so the interest lies mostly in knowing that the frontier ran here, across fields that are now ploughed in neat rows and crossed by farm tracks and cycle paths.
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Fortlet Wingertsberg is where the day begins. 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.
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Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel.
Marköbel is a village in the eastern Wetterau, the fertile plain north east of Frankfurt, and it stands on the site of a Roman fort that guarded the frontier where it crossed this open country. The fort, with its civilian settlement, the vicus, where merchants, craftsmen and soldiers' families lived, was part of the Upper German Limes, and today little remains above ground, but the village streets still follow parts of the old layout, and a reconstructed section of the frontier and markers explain the history. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel. 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, late in the day. Next is Fortlet Wingertsberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Wingertsberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fortlet Wingertsberg. That is the ride.
Fortlet Wingertsberg → Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 26 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 Marköbel is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel → back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor → Fortlet Wingertsberg is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.