Why this ride
An 88 km round trip from Melsbach - roughly 1 h 34 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtower WP 1/62, Watchtower WP 1/93 and back through Watchtower WP 1/62.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 and Watchtower WP 1/93
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 88 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 34
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Moselle Wine Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 22 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 22 km
- Named road
- Moselle Wine Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 1/62.
2. Watchtower WP 1/62
Höhr-Grenzhausen smells faintly of kilns if you catch it on the right day. This small town on the western edge of the Westerwald, a few kilometres north-east of Koblenz, sits at the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' country, where potters have been turning the local grey clay into salt-glazed stoneware for centuries. The Roman frontier passed right through here too, and watchtower WP 1/62 was one of the posts on the Upper Germanic Limes as it ran across these hills, now part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/62 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtower WP 1/62 comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 1/93.
3. Watchtower WP 1/93
Dausenau is the village that leans, or at least its church tower does. The tower of St Kastor, in the Lahn valley just a couple of kilometres from this watchtower site, tilts noticeably, giving the half-timbered lanes below it a slightly drunken air that tourists enjoy. The tower stands beside a gate of the old town wall, and the village is a pretty, slightly sleepy place where the Lahn bends through steep wooded slopes. The Roman tower number on the label belongs to the Limes that ran up and over the hills above the valley, and the site lies on the heights rather than in the village itself.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/93 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 1/93. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/62.
4. back through Watchtower WP 1/62
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/62 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Watchtower WP 1/62, late in the day. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34.
5. Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 to Watchtower WP 1/62
Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 → Watchtower WP 1/62 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/62 to Watchtower WP 1/93
Watchtower WP 1/62 → Watchtower WP 1/93 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/93 to back through Watchtower WP 1/62
Watchtower WP 1/93 → back through Watchtower WP 1/62 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/62 to Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34
back through Watchtower WP 1/62 → Limessection between watchtowers WP/ 1/34 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.