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 78 km round trip from Butzbach - roughly 1 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber, Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Between the hills of the Taunus and the soft farmland of the Wetterau, the Roman frontier ran in a long, mostly straight line for most of the second and third centuries. This is Hesse, and the numbering that gives the place its odd label, watchtowers 4/36 and 4/37, refers to the standard system archaeologists use to count the Limes watchposts section by section. The point lies near Butzbach, a town of twenty-five thousand people where the frontier crossed the Wetterau and the local fort once held a cavalry unit. The section in question consists of the earth traces, a low bank and a ditch, that the Romans built in front of their wooden palisade, with towers spaced at regular intervals behind.
Read the complete Limessection between WP 4/36 and 4/37 write-up.
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Limessection between WP 4/36 and 4/37 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber.
Friedberg's castle stands on a basalt ridge above the Wetterau, a walled enclosure so large it is almost a town of its own, with a tall round tower, the Adolfsturm, rising above the trees. What most visitors walking through the castle gate do not know is that they are standing on a Roman fort. The legions chose this same ridge in the first century AD, and a fort with a civil settlement grew up here, linked by road to the Limes a few kilometres to the north and west.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82.
Between two neighbouring watchtowers the Romans left a short piece of frontier that today looks like almost nothing, and that is part of its charm. The line between Wachtposten 4/81 and 4/82 runs through the fields of the Wetterau east of Frankfurt, close to Echzell, where the earth wall and ditch of the Limes can still be traced as a long, low swelling in the farmland, sometimes crowned by a hedge or a row of trees that have grown on it. Beneath the field, archaeologists have found postholes of the palisade, which stood about three metres high and was made of split oak trunks.
Read the complete Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82 write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber, late in the day. Next is Limessection between WP 4/36 and 4/37.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between WP 4/36 and 4/37 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Limessection between WP 4/36 and 4/37. That is the ride.
Limessection between WP 4/36 and 4/37 → Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber → Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between WP 4/81 and 4/82 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber → Limessection between WP 4/36 and 4/37 is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.