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 Asselfingen it runs 311 km to Asselfingen; allow about 4 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen, Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo, Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 and Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The Lone is a small river in the Swabian Jura, east of Ulm, that often vanishes underground in dry weather, slipping into the limestone and leaving its bed empty. Its quiet valley, flanked by wooded slopes and limestone cliffs, holds caves where some of the oldest figurative art in the world was found. In the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, fragments of a figure carved from mammoth ivory were pieced together into the Lion Man, a being with a human body and a lion's head, around forty thousand years old. In the Vogelherd cave, tiny ivory animals, a horse, a mammoth, a cave lion, emerged from the sediment.
Read the complete Lone Valley write-up.
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Lone Valley is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen.
The largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps stood on the site of today's Aalen, in the eastern Swabian Jura. It was home to a regiment of a thousand horsemen, the ala II Flavia, the most prestigious cavalry unit on the Raetian frontier, and its walls enclosed a huge area, with barracks, stables, granaries and a headquarters building. Beside it grew a civilian settlement, with traders, craftsmen and families. Today the site is home to the Limesmuseum Aalen, one of the most important museums of the Roman frontier in Germany, with excavated foundations, reconstructions and a rich collection of finds. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
Lorch is where two Roman frontiers shook hands. The Upper Germanic Limes, a line of wooden palisade and watchtowers running down from the Rhine, met the Raetian Limes, a stone wall stretching east towards the Danube, in the hills near this small town in the Rems valley. The watchtower numbers jump here from series 9, the end of the Upper Germanic stretch, to 12, the start of the Raetian, and the whole system is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo write-up.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68.
The Roman frontier wall known as the Limes ran for more than five hundred kilometres across what is now southern Germany, from the Rhine to the Danube, and near Aalen it passed through the Kocher valley and over the hills of the Ostalb. Along its length, watchtowers were built at regular intervals, numbered by archaeologists in sequence: WP 12/60 to 12/68 are a group of tower sites near Hüttlingen, mostly now visible as low mounds or reconstructed foundations. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes was inscribed by UNESCO in 2005 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch.
Lorch, in the Rems valley east of Stuttgart, sits on a historic seam. Just outside town, the Upper German Limes, which ran as a palisade and ditch from the Rhine, met the Raetian Limes, the stone wall running east to the Danube, and the Romans built a fort here to watch over that junction and the valley road. The fort lay beneath what is now the old town centre, and its outline, together with traces of the civilian settlement that grew around it, is marked in places in the streets. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and a reconstructed watchtower stands on a hill nearby.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch sits at 157 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 comes up about 195 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 232 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen, late in the day. Next is Lone Valley.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lone Valley write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 311 km.
Lone Valley → Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen → Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 → Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch → back through Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 → back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen → Lone Valley is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.