Why this ride
From Bad Schwalbach it runs 67 km to Bad Schwalbach; allow about 1 h 06 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f, Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6 and back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se and Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 67 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 06
- 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
Rhine Romantic Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 23 km this is Rhine Romantic Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 23 km
- Named road
- Rhine Romantic Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se
The western Taunus is wonderfully empty. Away from the commuter belt around Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, the hills north of Bad Schwalbach turn into a quiet patchwork of forest, small meadows and villages in the Heidenrod municipality, and right through the middle runs the Limes. Today you find grassy outlines, a few markers and the bank and ditch disappearing into the beech woods.
Read the complete Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
2. Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f
North of the Taunus ridge, the Limes crossed a high, open plateau between the Rhine and the Lahn, and the stretch with watchtowers 2/23 to 2/26 runs through the farmland and woods near Miehlen and Singhofen in the Rhein-Lahn district. The remains here are subtle, mostly low banks and the traces of towers in fields and forest edges, but the line of the frontier is marked by the long-distance Limes trail and information boards. This is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, a stretch of the line that few visitors ever see.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6.
3. Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6
WP 2/5 and 2/6 sound like spare parts, but they are the numbers archaeologists gave to two watchtower positions on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, the fortified frontier Rome drew across southern Germany. Here, in the hills above the Lahn near Bad Ems, the line ran up from the Rhine and over the high ground, and every few hundred metres a tower stood with a view to the next. Today most of what survives are low mounds, traces of the bank and ditch, and in some places a reconstructed tower to give you scale. The whole frontier became part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire in 2005.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 36 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6. Next is back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
4. back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f, late in the day. Next is Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se.
5. Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se to Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se → Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f to Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6 to back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f
Watchtowers WP 2/5 to 2/6 → back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f to Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se
back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.