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 Echzell it runs 332 km to Echzell; allow about 4 h 26 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel, Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald, Building remains southwest of Saalburg and Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 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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Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald.
The Roman frontier in Germany, the Limes, ran for over five hundred kilometres from the Rhine to the Danube, a line of palisades, ditches, walls, watchtowers and forts that marked the edge of the empire. In the Wetterau, north of Frankfurt, the Limes swung east in a great bulge to enclose this fertile plain, which the Romans valued for its farmland. In the woods near Wölfersheim stood a signal tower, one of the many small posts along the line, and today its remains are part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald. Next is Building remains southwest of Saalburg.
If you want to know what a Roman fort on the German frontier really looked like, the Saalburg is the place, and these building remains lie in the forest just southwest of it, part of the civilian and military landscape that grew up around the fort. The Saalburg itself was rebuilt at the beginning of the twentieth century on the orders of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was fascinated by Roman history and keen to present the German empire as the heir of Rome. The walls, gates, headquarters building and granaries were reconstructed on the original foundations, based on the archaeology of the time, and today the fort houses a museum full of finds from the frontier, along with workshops, a Roman garden and regular events with reenactors.
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Building remains southwest of Saalburg, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the.
In the hills of the Taunus north of Wiesbaden, the Roman frontier ran along the ridges through dense forest, and between watchtowers 3/15 and 3/19 near Idstein, its line can still be traced on the ground. The Romans built an earth bank and ditch, topped with a wooden palisade, with stone watchtowers at regular intervals, close enough to see each other and signal along the line. In the forest, the bank and ditch survive as a long, low ridge and hollow, and the foundations of watchtowers appear as low mounds, sometimes with a few stones visible. The Upper Germanic and Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, has been a World Heritage site since 2005.
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Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the sits at 140 km, about halfway. Next is back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg.
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back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg comes up about 218 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald.
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Read the complete Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald write-up.
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about 260 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel, late in the day. Next is Fortlet Wingertsberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet Wingertsberg write-up.
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The route ends here after 332 km.
Fortlet Wingertsberg → Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel → Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → Building remains southwest of Saalburg is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains southwest of Saalburg → Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the → back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg → back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel → Fortlet Wingertsberg is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.