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 364 km round trip from Moers - roughly 5 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in, Monheim-Haus Bürgel, Köln-Alteburg and Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 35 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Asberg is a quiet district on the southern edge of Moers, on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, and beneath its houses and fields lies the Roman fort of Asciburgium, one of the earliest military bases on the Rhine frontier. It was founded around the time of the emperor Augustus or soon after, garrisoned by cavalry and auxiliary troops, and abandoned toward the end of the first century, when the Rhine shifted its course and moved away from the fort. The site is now part of the Lower German Limes UNESCO site, and although there is little to see above ground, information boards and outlines help you imagine the scene.
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Moers-Asberg is where the day begins. Next is Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
The headframe of Shaft XII at Zollverein, with its red steel lattice and double wheels, is the Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr, and it is easy to see why. Designed by the architects Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer and opened in 1932, the shaft and its surrounding buildings were built in a clean, functional style influenced by the Bauhaus, and it was hailed as the most beautiful coal mine in the world. At its peak, Zollverein was one of the largest and most productive mines in Europe, and the adjacent coking plant processed coal into coke for the steel industry. The mine closed in 1986, the coking plant in 1993, and UNESCO listed the complex in 2001.
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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monheim-Haus Bürgel.
Haus Bürgel is a manor farm that sits on top of a Roman fort, quite literally. The walls of a late Roman fortification, built in the fourth century to guard the Rhine frontier, form part of the foundations and outer walls of the medieval and later farm buildings, and the site is part of the Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021. Between Monheim and Düsseldorf-Urdenbach, it lies in a broad meadow landscape on the right bank of the Rhine.
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about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Monheim-Haus Bürgel. Next is Köln-Alteburg.
The Roman navy is not the first thing most people associate with Cologne, but for almost two centuries the Rhine fleet, the Classis Germanica, had its main base here at Alteburg, just south of the Roman city. The fort sat on a terrace above the river in what is now the leafy district of Marienburg, near Bayenthal, and from here warships patrolled the Rhine, carried supplies and soldiers, and kept watch on the frontier. The site belongs to the Lower Germanic Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021, though today it lies mostly under villas, streets and gardens, with only traces and information boards to show where it stood.
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Köln-Alteburg, about halfway. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2.
Kottenforst is the name of a forest, but on the ride it is a long, patient place to be. This is the southern end of that great woodland ridge above Bonn, and the Wattendorfer Allee is one of the straight, wide avenues driven through it in the eighteenth century for the Electors of Cologne. The avenues radiate from older hunting points, and they still run dead straight for kilometres, so that from the right spot you can look down a green corridor that ends in a pinprick of light.
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Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2 sits at 166 km, about halfway. Next is back through Köln-Alteburg.
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back through Köln-Alteburg comes up about 226 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Monheim-Haus Bürgel.
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about 272 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Monheim-Haus Bürgel. Next is back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in.
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back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in, late in the day. Next is Moers-Asberg.
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The route ends here after 364 km.
Moers-Asberg → Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monheim-Haus Bürgel → Köln-Alteburg is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Köln-Alteburg → Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2 → back through Köln-Alteburg is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Köln-Alteburg → back through Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monheim-Haus Bürgel → back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in → Moers-Asberg is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.