Why this ride
268 km from Stuttgart Feuerbach to Stuttgart Feuerbach, about 4 h 18 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68, Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59 and back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung and Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 268 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 18
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung
In 1927, on a hillside overlooking Stuttgart, a group of the most radical architects in Europe built an entire housing estate in a few months as an exhibition of what modern living could look like. The Weissenhof Estate, organised by the Deutscher Werkbund under the direction of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, brought together Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P. Oud and others, and their flat-roofed, white-walled houses became a manifesto for the International Style.
Read the complete Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68.
2. Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Between Öhringen and Mainhardt, the Upper German Limes does something a Roman engineer must have been proud of: it runs dead straight for many kilometres, up hill and down dale, ignoring the terrain as if drawn with a ruler on a map. The watchtower sites numbered along this section lie on that line, in the Hohenlohe country of northern Württemberg, between the open farmland around Pfedelbach and the dark wooded hills of the Swabian-Franconian Forest.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59.
3. Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59
The Romans called it the edge of the world they cared about, and in the Rems valley east of Schwäbisch Gmünd you can still trace where they drew the line. A string of watchtower sites, numbered by archaeologists along the stretch between Mögglingen, Heuchlingen and Böbingen, marks the course of the Raetian Limes, the frontier that guarded the province of Raetia in the second and third centuries. Here the frontier was a stone wall, which later locals, puzzled by the long ruined bank, called the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 134 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68.
4. back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68, late in the day. Next is Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung.
5. Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung to Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung → Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 to Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 → Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59 to back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68
Watchtowers WP 12/40 to 12/59 → back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 to Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung
back through Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 → Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.