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 Höhr-Grenzhausen it runs 92 km to Höhr-Grenzhausen; allow about 1 h 40 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtower WP 1/88, Watchtowers WP 2/17 to 2/19 including fort and back through Watchtower WP 1/88. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Höhr-Grenzhausen is a town that makes things out of mud. The Westerwald plateau here sits on one of Europe's finest deposits of stoneware clay, and for centuries potters have dug it, thrown it and fired it in salt-glaze kilns to make grey-and-blue jugs, tankards and storage jars. The area is called the Kannenbäckerland, the land of the jug bakers, and its pots were shipped down the Rhine and across the world. The Westerwald Ceramics Museum in Höhr-Grenzhausen tells the story, and several workshops in town still sell hand-made pieces. Take a mug home and you will be surprised how heavy it is.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/60 a write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/60 a is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 1/88.
In the hills above the Lahn, in the Westerwald near Arzbach, the Roman frontier made a long, curving loop through a country of oak and beech forest, and watchtower 1/88 was one of the posts on its line. This district was thick with towers, and several neighbouring numbers lie within a few kilometres. The Romans placed them wherever the ground gave a good view, usually on a rise or a ridge, so that from one you could see the smoke or lamp of the next.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/88 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/88 comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 2/17 to 2/19 including fort.
In the Taunus and Westerwald country of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Limes crosses hills so wooded that it is easy to miss. The numbering here records three watchtower positions and a fort, and from the start of the sequence you can follow the frontier as a line of mounds through forest and field.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/17 to 2/19 including fort write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 2/17 to 2/19 including fort. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/88.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/88 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 1/88, late in the day. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/60 a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/60 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/60 a. That is the ride.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/60 a → Watchtower WP 1/88 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/88 → Watchtowers WP 2/17 to 2/19 including fort is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/17 to 2/19 including fort → back through Watchtower WP 1/88 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/88 → Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/60 a is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.