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 Alfter it runs 354 km to Alfter; allow about 6 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Remagen, Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the, Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a and Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 45 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Kottenforst looks like an ordinary Rhineland woodland of oak, beech and hornbeam, with walkers, joggers and the odd horse rider, but in the second half of the first century and beyond it was a training ground for the Roman army. In clearings of the forest, the legion stationed at Bonna, today's Bonn, built a series of temporary camps as exercises, digging ditches and raising ramparts to practise the rapid construction they would need in the field. The remains of these camps, faint earthworks under the trees, are included in the Lower Germanic Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2021. Am Weissen Stein is one of the northern groups.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 is where the day begins. Next is Remagen.
On 7 March 1945, soldiers of the US 9th Armored Division reached Remagen and found the Ludendorff railway bridge across the Rhine still standing, despite German attempts to blow it. They rushed across, and for the first time the Allies had a foothold on the far bank of the great river. Ten days later the damaged bridge collapsed, but by then pontoons had been built and the war in the west had entered its last chapter. What remains today are the black stone towers on both banks, and those on the Remagen side house a small peace museum telling the story with honesty and without glorification.
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Remagen comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
The Upper Germanic Limes begins a few kilometres from here, at Rheinbrohl on the Rhine, and in its first miles it climbs straight up into the Westerwald. Watchtowers numbered WP 1/41 to 1/50 mark a short run of that frontier in the wooded hills behind Neuwied and Bendorf, near the villages of Stromberg, Anhausen and Heimbach-Weis. Do not expect towers. What remains is a low bank, a ditch you can trace through the beech trunks, and here and there the outline of a tower base marked by archaeologists.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the write-up.
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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a.
Up on the plateau of the Hintertaunus, north of the Rhine gorge, the Roman frontier crossed a quiet landscape of fields and forest near Singhofen, and a section of it between two watchtowers survives here as a faint bank and ditch running through the woods. This is the Upper German Limes, which ran for more than five hundred kilometres from the Rhine to the Danube, marking the boundary between the Roman Empire and the free Germanic tribes from the second century until the Romans withdrew in the third. It was not a great wall like Hadrian's in Britain, but a line of watchtowers, forts and a timber palisade, later strengthened with a ditch and bank. Together with the Raetian Limes, it was listed by UNESCO in 2005.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo.
The Roman frontier in Germany, the Limes, begins at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl, and a few kilometres upstream the town of Neuwied sits on the river, its district of Heddesdorf lying on the site of a Roman auxiliary fort. The fort was one of a chain of garrison posts in the Neuwied basin, a wide, fertile bowl of the Rhine valley with a mild climate, and the soldiers who lived here controlled the river crossing and the road toward the frontier. A civil settlement, a vicus, grew beside the fort, with traders, craftsmen and families. Nothing stands today above ground, because the fort lies under houses and streets, and what survives is documented in the finds in the local museum, in markers and in the street plan.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a.
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Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a write-up.
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back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a comes up about 223 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
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about 268 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the. Next is back through Remagen.
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Read the complete Remagen write-up.
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back through Remagen, late in the day. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1.
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Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 write-up.
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The route ends here after 354 km.
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 → Remagen is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a → Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo → back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a → back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → back through Remagen is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Remagen → Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 1 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.