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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161 km from Bad Münstereifel to Bad Münstereifel, about 3 h 06 of riding. On the way it passes Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5, Köln-Alteburg, Dormagen and back through Köln-Alteburg. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 29 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Iversheim is a village in the valley of the Erft, at the northern edge of the Eifel, just downstream from the old spa town of Bad Münstereifel. It is known for one thing: a Roman lime-burning works, one of the best preserved in Europe. The Romans built a series of kilns here to burn limestone from the surrounding hills into quicklime, which was used to make mortar for the forts, towns and roads of the province of Lower Germany. The kilns were worked by detachments of soldiers from the Rhine legions, as inscriptions found on the site show.
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Iversheim is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5.
Between Bonn and the Eifel lies the Kottenforst, a broad, flat forest of oak, beech and hornbeam on the plateau of the Ville, once a hunting ground of the Electors of Cologne, who laid out long straight rides through the trees for their stag hunts. Hidden in the woods are the faint outlines of Roman camps, earthworks left by soldiers who trained or camped here when Bonn, then called Bonna, was the base of a Roman legion on the Rhine frontier. The site at Domhecken, in the northern part of the forest, is one of the components of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021. Like many such sites, it is subtle, a low bank and ditch among the trees, but it adds a layer of history to a walk or a ride through the forest.
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Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Köln-Alteburg.
The Roman navy is not the first thing most people associate with Cologne, but for almost two centuries the Rhine fleet, the Classis Germanica, had its main base here at Alteburg, just south of the Roman city. The fort sat on a terrace above the river in what is now the leafy district of Marienburg, near Bayenthal, and from here warships patrolled the Rhine, carried supplies and soldiers, and kept watch on the frontier. The site belongs to the Lower Germanic Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021, though today it lies mostly under villas, streets and gardens, with only traces and information boards to show where it stood.
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about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Köln-Alteburg. Next is Dormagen.
Dormagen is not the sort of place that ends up on postcards, and it does not try to be. It is a working town of some sixty thousand on the left bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf, dominated on its northern side by a huge chemical park whose pipes and stacks glow at night. Yet the name itself comes from Roman times: Durnomagus was a fort on the Lower German Limes, the Rhine frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and a cavalry unit was stationed here to patrol the river and the road along it.
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Dormagen, about halfway. Next is back through Köln-Alteburg.
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back through Köln-Alteburg sits at 114 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5.
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back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 comes up about 136 km into the recorded legs. Next is Iversheim.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Iversheim write-up.
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Iversheim closes the day.
Iversheim → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 → Köln-Alteburg is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Köln-Alteburg → Dormagen is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dormagen → back through Köln-Alteburg is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Köln-Alteburg → back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 → Iversheim is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.