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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264 km from Alfter to Alfter, about 4 h 33 of riding. 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 about 33 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Kottenforst sits on a terrace between the Rhine plain and the hills of the Vorgebirge, and its northern edge comes right up against the settlements of Alfter, Bornheim and Bonn. The ground here is clay and loess, wet in winter and hard in summer, and it has made good soil for farming around the woods. The pattern, though, of woodland surrounded by old hedgerows and farm tracks, is typical of the Rhineland.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 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 about 56 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 89 km into the recorded legs 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 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 comes up about 210 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 closes the day.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 → Watchtowers WP 1/1 to 1/2 is 56 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 33 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 42 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 44 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 35 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 | Domhecken 2 is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.