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 Bad Münstereifel it runs 302 km to Bad Münstereifel; allow about 6 h 29 of riding. On the way it passes Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1, Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the, Watchtower WP 1/73 and Watchtower WP 2/31. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 46 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for 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.
Read the complete Iversheim write-up.
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Iversheim is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1.
The Kottenforst is a big, flat-topped wooded ridge south-west of Bonn, an island of oak and hornbeam in a landscape of fields and commuter towns. It was a hunting forest of the Electors of Cologne, and the straight avenues that cut through it, still named Allee, were laid out in the eighteenth century so that a hunting party could ride after game, or follow falcons, in a precise geometric pattern. Elector Clemens August, who built the Augustusburg palace at Brühl and the little hunting lodge of Falkenlust beside it, loved heron hunting with falcons, and the avenues were part of that grand and slightly absurd game.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 write-up.
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Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
Here is where the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the longest stretch of Roman frontier in Europe, begins. The Romans started the line at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and ran it up over the hills of the Westerwald, then on through the Taunus and beyond for more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube. The section with watchtowers numbered WP 1/11 to 1/20 follows the first climb away from the river through the forests above Rheinbrohl, Hammerstein and Niederbreitbach. Most of the towers survive only as low mounds of stone in the woods, but the course of the frontier ditch and rampart can often be traced on foot, and there are information boards and a few reconstructions along the way.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the. Next is Watchtower WP 1/73.
The Roman frontier in Germany starts at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and climbs into the hills of the Westerwald, and Watchtower WP 1/73, near Hillscheid, belongs to that first stretch. The numbers tell you where you are: section one, tower seventy-three. All that survives is a low mound in the woods, but in the second and third centuries it was a stone tower with a view over the frontier line and, behind it, the palisade and ditch that ran across the landscape. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes has been part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire since 2005, and this is where it all begins.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/73 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/73, about halfway. Next is Watchtower WP 2/31.
Holzhausen an der Haide is a small village on the high ground of the western Taunus, between the Rhine and the Lahn, and it has one of the better-preserved Roman fort sites along the Limes. The stone walls of Kastell Holzhausen still stand to a modest height in the fields just outside the village, outlining the fort's rectangle with its rounded corners and gates. Watchtower WP 2/31 belongs to the chain of towers that linked forts like this one along the frontier, and in this open landscape you can easily imagine the signals passing from hill to hill.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 2/31 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 2/31 sits at 139 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/73.
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Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/73 write-up.
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back through Watchtower WP 1/73 comes up about 187 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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about 230 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the. Next is back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 write-up.
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back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1, late in the day. Next is Iversheim.
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Read the complete Iversheim write-up.
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The route ends here after 302 km.
Iversheim → Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 → Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → Watchtower WP 1/73 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/73 → Watchtower WP 2/31 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 2/31 → back through Watchtower WP 1/73 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/73 → back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 → Iversheim is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.