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 406 km to Alfter; allow about 5 h 06 of riding. The stops in between: Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30, Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell and back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Between Bonn and the Eifel lies the Kottenforst, a broad, flat forest of oak, beech and hornbeam on the plateau of the Ville, once a hunting ground of the Electors of Cologne, who laid out long straight rides through the trees for their stag hunts. Hidden in the woods are the faint outlines of Roman camps, earthworks left by soldiers who trained or camped here when Bonn, then called Bonna, was the base of a Roman legion on the Rhine frontier. The site at Domhecken, in the northern part of the forest, is one of the components of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021. Like many such sites, it is subtle, a low bank and ditch among the trees, but it adds a layer of history to a walk or a ride through the forest.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 is where the day begins. Next is Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30.
The Roman frontier in Germany starts at the Rhine and heads off into the woods, and the Westerwald is where it first leaves the river. Near Rheinbrohl the Upper German Limes begins, and from there it climbs the hills to the east, a line of earth banks, ditches and watchtowers that once ran for about five hundred and fifty kilometres to the Danube. Between the towers numbered 1 and 30 it crosses the high ground behind Neuwied, through the area of Melsbach and Rengsdorf, and what remains today is mostly a low bank and a shallow ditch in the forest.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 comes up about 79 km into the recorded legs. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell.
The Rhine was the northern frontier of the Roman Empire for centuries, and the string of forts, towers and camps along its western bank is now recognised as the Lower Germanic Limes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021.
Read the complete Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 202 km into the recorded legs you reach Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 write-up.
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back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30, late in the day. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5. That is the ride.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 → Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 → Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell is 123 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell → back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.