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 343 km to Holzhausen an der Haide; allow about 4 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456, Ruine Altenmuster and back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 61 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Up on the high, rolling plateau between the Rhine and the Lahn, where the Taunus fades into fields and beech woods, the Romans built one of the better preserved stone forts on the Upper German Limes. Holzhausen an der Haide is a quiet village of a little over a thousand people, and the fort sits just outside it in the trees, the outline of its walls still traceable on the ground, with the gates and corner towers marked out where the stone survives. It is part of the UNESCO-listed frontier that once ran from the Rhine near Koblenz all the way to the Danube, a line of palisade, ditch, watchtowers and garrisons meant less to stop armies than to control who came and went, and what they paid for the privilege.
Read the complete Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen write-up.
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Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen is where the day begins. Next is Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456.
The Saalburg is the Roman fort that Germany rebuilt. On the crest of the Taunus north of Bad Homburg, where the Limes crossed a pass, archaeologists excavated the remains of a fort in the nineteenth century, and between 1897 and 1907, with the enthusiastic support of Kaiser Wilhelm II, it was reconstructed with walls, gates, barracks and a headquarters building. Today it is a museum and archaeological park, and the civil settlement, or vicus, that grew up outside the fort lies east of the B 456 road. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 write-up.
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Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ruine Altenmuster.
Lorsch Abbey, founded in the eighth century, became one of the most powerful monasteries of the Carolingian empire, with vast estates, a famous library and the patronage of Charlemagne himself. Its first home, however, was not on the site of the later abbey, but a short distance away, on an island in the Weschnitz river, a place known as Altenmünster, the old minster. The ruins of that first foundation, a few low walls in a meadow, are a quiet counterpoint to the abbey's most famous building, the Torhalle, a gatehouse with a façade of red and white stone panels, one of the few surviving examples of Carolingian architecture. The abbey and Altenmünster together have been on the UNESCO list since 1991.
Read the complete Ruine Altenmuster write-up.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach Ruine Altenmuster. Next is back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456, late in the day. Next is Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen. That is the ride.
Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen → Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 → Ruine Altenmuster is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ruine Altenmuster → back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 → Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen is 91 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.