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 Wilburgstetten it runs 197 km to Wilburgstetten; allow about 3 h 30 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40, Watchtower WP 14/28, Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo and back through Watchtower WP 14/28. 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 27 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
In the fields near Wilburgstetten, in the west of Franconia, a low ridge runs across the landscape, overgrown with grass and bushes. It looks like nothing much, but it is the remains of the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the frontier of the Roman province of Raetia in the second and third centuries. Unlike the Upper German Limes to the north west, which was mostly a palisade and ditch, the Raetian section was eventually built as a continuous stone wall, more than a hundred and sixty kilometres long. Local people later called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing it could only have been built by supernatural forces. The section between watchtowers here is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40.
In this corner of Franconia, the Roman frontier is a straight line. From the Danube near Eining the Raetian Limes ran north and then swung west across a quiet landscape of low hills and fields, and in the section near Wassertrudingen, the line is as ruler-straight as anything the Romans ever built. Here the frontier was a stone wall, unlike the timber palisade further north, and it ran between towers numbered by archaeologists. The group 13/37 to 13/40 is a short stretch of that wall and its watchtowers.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 14/28.
Near the Franconian town of Pleinfeld, the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the frontier of the province of Raetia, crossed a landscape of woods, fields and small rivers, and a watchtower stood here, one of hundreds along the line. Watchtower WP 14/28 is now a low mound or reconstructed foundation, but it is part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. The frontier here was a stone wall, known locally as the Teufelsmauer, the devil's wall, because medieval villagers could not believe that humans had built it.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 14/28 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 14/28. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 14/28.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 14/28 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 14/28 sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 comes up about 170 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a closes the day.
Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a → Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 → Watchtower WP 14/28 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 14/28 → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → back through Watchtower WP 14/28 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 14/28 → back through Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 → Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.