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 Wachtberg it runs 199 km to Wachtberg; allow about 4 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5, Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at, Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 and back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 17 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Kottenforst is a big, flat, rather mysterious forest on the plateau south-west of Bonn, crossed by long, dead-straight avenues laid out by the Electors of Cologne in the eighteenth century as hunting rides. The Bellerbuschallee is one of them, and walking or riding along it you pass oak and beech, wet hollows and the occasional deer. Under the trees, though, lie traces much older than the Electors: the low ramparts of Roman practice camps, where legionaries from Bonn learned to dig defences quickly. These camps form part of the Lower German Limes World Heritage listing inscribed in 2021.
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Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5.
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.
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Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at.
Clemens August of Bavaria, prince-elector and archbishop of Cologne in the eighteenth century, loved two things above all: hunting with falcons and building in the latest style. At Brühl, just south of Cologne, he created two of the finest rococo buildings in Germany. Augustusburg Palace, his summer residence, has a staircase designed by Balthasar Neumann that is one of the masterpieces of the period, a whirl of marble, stucco and frescoes, and a formal French garden that stretches toward the forest. Falkenlust, a smaller hunting lodge at the end of a long avenue, was built for falconry, with a delightful interior decorated with tiles and lacquerwork. The two castles were listed by UNESCO in 1984.
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about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2.
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.
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Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2, about halfway. Next is Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at.
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Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at sits at 69 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2.
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back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 comes up about 115 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at.
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about 141 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5.
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back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5, late in the day. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee.
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The route ends here after 199 km.
Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 → Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 → Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at → back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 → back through Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at → back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 5 → Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.