CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Asselfingen it runs 324 km to Asselfingen; allow about 5 h 42 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen, Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo, Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the and Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13. It follows river valleys.
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.
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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.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen comes up 40 km in. 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.
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80 km in you reach Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
Mainhardt sits on a ridge in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, and the Roman frontier ran right through it, on its way south in one of the longest straight lines ever drawn across European landscape. Here, the Upper Germanic Limes runs for some eighty kilometres from Walldürn to near Welzheim almost perfectly straight, ignoring hills and valleys, as if surveyors had laid a ruler on the map. The watchtowers numbered in this section stood along that line in the forest, and Mainhardt had a fort, whose site is marked in the village, with a small museum.
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Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, was born at Jagsthausen castle in about 1480, and he would probably be amused to know that he is best remembered today for a rude phrase. In Goethe's play about him, Götz tells an imperial messenger exactly what the emperor can do, a line that every German knows. The castle still stands in the village, now a hotel, and in summer the Burgfestspiele, an open-air theatre festival, stages the play in the castle courtyard. Long before Götz, the Romans were here too: a fort stood at Jagsthausen on the line of the Upper Germanic Limes, and in the hills around, a series of watchtowers, numbered by archaeologists as WP 9/2 to 9/13, kept watch along the frontier.
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Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
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back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the comes up 199 km in. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
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239 km in you reach back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Aalen, late in the day. Next is Lone Valley.
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The route ends here after 324 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 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 40 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.