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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307 km from Melsbach to Melsbach, about 4 h 28 of riding. On the way it passes Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2, Monheim-Haus Bürgel and back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
North of Neuwied, the hills of the Westerwald rise steeply from the Rhine, and through their forests ran the Roman frontier known as the Upper German-Raetian Limes. The section between the watchtowers numbered WP 1/34 and its neighbours lies near Melsbach and Rengsdorf, and it is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2005 for this stretch. The Limes began on the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, a little downstream, and ran for over 500 kilometres to the Danube, a line of wooden palisades, ditches, ramparts and watchtowers.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 comes up about 84 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monheim-Haus Bürgel.
Haus Bürgel is a manor farm that sits on top of a Roman fort, quite literally. The walls of a late Roman fortification, built in the fourth century to guard the Rhine frontier, form part of the foundations and outer walls of the medieval and later farm buildings, and the site is part of the Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021. Between Monheim and Düsseldorf-Urdenbach, it lies in a broad meadow landscape on the right bank of the Rhine.
Read the complete Monheim-Haus Bürgel write-up.
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about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Monheim-Haus Bürgel. Next is back through 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.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2, late in the day. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34. That is the ride.
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 → Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monheim-Haus Bürgel → back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 2 → Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.