CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 244 km round trip from Alfter - roughly 4 h 13 in the saddle. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2, Watchtower WP 1/64, Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f and back through Watchtower WP 1/64. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 34 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Bornheim is asparagus country, and if you ride past the Kottenforst in late spring you will see why. The sandy soil on the Rhine terraces just south of Cologne suits the white spears perfectly, and from roughly April to the end of June the farm stands along the roads sell them by the kilo, along with strawberries that follow soon afterwards. This is the Vorgebirge, a low ridge between the Rhine plain and the Eifel foothills, long used for market gardening and orchards, and the Weißer Stein stop sits in the woodland at its edge.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2.
This is where it all begins, or ends, depending on which way you are walking. At Rheinbrohl, on the east bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes left the river and struck out across country, running more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube near Regensburg. The first watchtowers, numbered 1/1 and 1/2, stood here near the river, and the line can be followed into the hills from the edge of the village. The whole frontier is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and Rheinbrohl has a modern museum, the RömerWelt, which brings the frontier to life with reconstructions, exhibits and hands-on activities.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 comes up 38 km in. Next is Watchtower WP 1/64.
Höhr-Grenzhausen smells of clay and fire. The town, in the Westerwald hills north east of Koblenz, is the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' land, where potters have been making salt-glazed stoneware for centuries, with its characteristic grey body and cobalt blue decoration. Westerwald stoneware jugs, mugs and pots were exported across Europe and beyond, and the craft is still alive today, with workshops, a ceramics museum and a college for ceramic design. The Roman frontier ran right past the town, and the site of watchtower WP 1/64, near Höhr-Grenzhausen, is one of the many traces of the Upper German Limes, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/64 write-up.
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77 km in you reach Watchtower WP 1/64. Next is Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
North of the Taunus ridge, the Limes crossed a high, open plateau between the Rhine and the Lahn, and the stretch with watchtowers 2/23 to 2/26 runs through the farmland and woods near Miehlen and Singhofen in the Rhein-Lahn district. The remains here are subtle, mostly low banks and the traces of towers in fields and forest edges, but the line of the frontier is marked by the long-distance Limes trail and information boards. This is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, a stretch of the line that few visitors ever see.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
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Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/64.
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Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/64 write-up.
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back through Watchtower WP 1/64 sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 comes up 192 km in. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2.
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Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 closes the day.
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 → Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 → Watchtower WP 1/64 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/64 → Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → back through Watchtower WP 1/64 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/64 → back through Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 → Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.