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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A 190 km round trip from Neuwied - roughly 3 h 46 in the saddle. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the, Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16, Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se and back through Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 30 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Roman frontier in Germany starts at the Rhine and heads off into the woods, and the Westerwald is where it first leaves the river. Near Rheinbrohl the Upper German Limes begins, and from there it climbs the hills to the east, a line of earth banks, ditches and watchtowers that once ran for about five hundred and fifty kilometres to the Danube. Between the towers numbered 1 and 30 it crosses the high ground behind Neuwied, through the area of Melsbach and Rengsdorf, and what remains today is mostly a low bank and a shallow ditch in the forest.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the.
Roman soldiers on this part of the frontier spent most of their time watching, and the towers that you can trace in the woods near Hillscheid are the evidence. Four tower positions follow one another here, each within sight of the next so that a fire or a flag could pass a message along the line in minutes, and a fortlet and the remains of a fort and civil settlement lie nearby, forming a small military zone around the Limes. This was the first stretch of the Upper Germanic frontier after it left the Rhine, so every day brought traders, patrols and tax collectors through the gap.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16.
Imagine standing in a small timber or stone tower on a cold winter night, looking out over the dark forest for signs of movement, with a fire ready to signal to the next tower along the line. That was the life of the soldiers who manned the watchtowers of the Roman frontier, and the remains of three of them, numbered 2/14 to 2/16 by archaeologists, lie in the woods between Singhofen and Miehlen, on the plateau above the Rhine and the Lahn. Their foundations survive as low mounds and traces in the ground, and the line of the frontier, the ditch and bank, can be followed between them. They are part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, one of the components of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16. Next is Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se.
The western Taunus is wonderfully empty. Away from the commuter belt around Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, the hills north of Bad Schwalbach turn into a quiet patchwork of forest, small meadows and villages in the Heidenrod municipality, and right through the middle runs the Limes. Today you find grassy outlines, a few markers and the bank and ditch disappearing into the beech woods.
Read the complete Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se write-up.
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Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16 sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the comes up about 156 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 closes the day.
Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 → Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the → Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16 → Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se → back through Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/14 to 2/16 → back through Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the → Limessection between watchtowzers WP 1/30 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.