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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360 km from Tolkamer to Tolkamer, about 5 h 22 of riding. On the way it passes Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2, Moers-Asberg, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in and Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Here the Rhine stops being a German river. Just downstream of the village of Keeken, the great river crosses the border into the Netherlands, and a few kilometres further on it divides, with the Waal carrying most of the water west and the Pannerdens Canal leading to the Nederrijn and the IJssel. In Roman times, this was the northern frontier of the empire, the Lower German Limes, and Keeken is one of the sites listed as part of the UNESCO frontier, with traces of Roman military installations along the old river course.
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Kleve-Keeken is where the day begins. Next is Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2.
Flat is the word for the Lower Rhine, and the Hochwald is the exception that proves it. Near Uedem, on the German side of the Dutch border, a long low ridge of wooded hills pushes up from the plain, the leftover of ice-age glaciers that stopped here, dumping gravel and sand in a long arc. The ridge is not high, but in a landscape where a church tower is a landmark, it counts as a range. The forest is a mix of beech, oak and pine, with sandy paths and cyclists, and it is a favourite of weekend walkers. A scouting label like Hochwald 2 only tells me there are several viewpoints in the same area, so treat the forest as a whole.
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Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2 comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Moers-Asberg.
Asberg is a quiet district on the southern edge of Moers, on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, and beneath its houses and fields lies the Roman fort of Asciburgium, one of the earliest military bases on the Rhine frontier. It was founded around the time of the emperor Augustus or soon after, garrisoned by cavalry and auxiliary troops, and abandoned toward the end of the first century, when the Rhine shifted its course and moved away from the fort. The site is now part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site, and although there is little to see above ground, information boards and outlines help you imagine the scene.
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about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Moers-Asberg. Next is Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
The headframe of Shaft XII at Zollverein, with its red steel lattice and double wheels, is the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr, and it is easy to see why. Designed by the architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer and opened in 1932, the shaft and its surrounding buildings were built in a clean, functional style influenced by the Bauhaus, and it was hailed as the most beautiful coal mine in the world. At its peak, Zollverein was one of the largest and most productive mines in Europe, and the adjacent coking plant processed coal into coke for the steel industry. The mine closed in 1986, the coking plant in 1993, and UNESCO listed the complex in 2001.
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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in, about halfway. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm.
Neuss has been a garrison town for two thousand years, and it still carries the Roman name in a shortened form: Novaesium, the legionary fortress that stood on the Rhine near the mouth of the Erft, was one of the oldest Roman military sites in Germany, founded in the days of Augustus. The Rhine was the frontier here, the Lower Germanic Limes, with no wall but a river, fortresses and watchtowers like the one at Reckberg, and the whole line was added to the UNESCO list in 2021.
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Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm sits at 174 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
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back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in comes up about 243 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Moers-Asberg.
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Read the complete Moers-Asberg write-up.
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about 281 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Moers-Asberg. Next is back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2.
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back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2, late in the day. Next is Kleve-Keeken.
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Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
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The route ends here after 360 km.
Kleve-Keeken → Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2 → Moers-Asberg is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moers-Asberg → Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Neuss-Reckberg | Wachtturm → back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → back through Moers-Asberg is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Moers-Asberg → back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2 is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 2 → Kleve-Keeken is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.