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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299 km from Vöhl to Vöhl, about 3 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the, Watchtowers WP 5/9 to 5/10 and back through Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Beech trees cover the hills of the Kellerwald in north Hesse, and they are old ones. This is one of the places where UNESCO recognised the ancient beech forests of Germany, listed in 2011, because here the trees have been left largely alone, and the forest has the feel of what Central Europe looked like before farming took over. The trunks are smooth and grey, the canopy is high and the floor in spring is covered with a sheet of white wood anemones. In autumn, the leaves turn copper and gold, and the forest is full of light.
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Kellerwald is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the.
North of Frankfurt, the Wetterau opens out as a wide, fertile basin between the Taunus and the Vogelsberg, and the Roman frontier made a long bulge around it to bring this rich farmland inside the empire. This section of the Upper Germanic Limes, with watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52, runs through the woods and fields between Langgöns and Lich, at the northern tip of that bulge. The towers are long gone, but traces of the wall and ditch can still be found in the forest.
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Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the comes up about 90 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 5/9 to 5/10.
The label gives only a pair of watchtower numbers, and the place itself is a swathe of flat country between Hanau and the Kinzig, where the suburbs of Erlensee, Rodenbach and Langenselbold have grown together into a continuous belt of houses, orchards and sports fields. In the second century the Roman frontier ran along this side of the Main plain before it turned south to the river, and the small towers, spaced at easy shouting distance, were the first line of warning. Nothing much remains above ground, and the nearby fort at Rückingen is known mostly from excavation. This is a stop for imagination rather than sightseeing.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 5/9 to 5/10 write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 5/9 to 5/10. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the, late in the day. Next is Kellerwald.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kellerwald write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kellerwald. That is the ride.
Kellerwald → Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the → Watchtowers WP 5/9 to 5/10 is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 5/9 to 5/10 → back through Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 4/45 to 4/52 including the → Kellerwald is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.