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 Bad Ems it runs 233 km to Bad Ems; allow about 4 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the, Remagen, Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar and back through Remagen. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 48 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Along this part of the Limes, between Arzbach, Dausenau and Kadenbach, the Roman frontier cuts across the hills above the Lahn valley, and the numbered watchtower positions, here around the 1/24 to 1/26 group, give the section its identity. A watchtower was small, a stone base with a timber upper room, and signalled by fire or horn to its neighbours. The point of it all was surveillance rather than defence; if trouble came, the troops in the forts behind would be told. Standing at one of these positions now, in forest rather than the open ground the Romans cleared, you have to remind yourself that the trees are a later gift.
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Limessection between watchtower WP 1/87 an is where the day begins. 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.
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Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the comes up about 48 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 87 km into the recorded legs you reach Remagen. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar.
The southern Kottenforst is the Bonn locals' own backyard, and on a fine Sunday it feels like it. Tracks and rides cross the woodland in all directions, and the people on them are walkers, joggers, riders and families on bicycles rather than motorbikes. The name on the label, with its mention of a pond-like hollow called Maar, hints at the wet, clay-lined depressions that dot this plateau and hold water after rain. Underneath lie old Roman remains too, including part of the Eifel aqueduct that carried water toward Cologne, though you will see it only if you know where to look.
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Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar, about halfway. Next is back through Remagen.
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back through Remagen sits at 114 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
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back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the comes up about 188 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between watchtower WP 1/87 an.
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Limessection between watchtower WP 1/87 an closes the day.
Limessection between watchtower WP 1/87 an → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Remagen is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar → back through Remagen is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Remagen → back through 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.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Limessection between watchtower WP 1/87 an is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.