Why this ride
From Monheim am Rhein it runs 283 km to Monheim am Rhein; allow about 3 h 43 of riding. On the way it passes Bonn, Watchtower WP 1/51 and back through Bonn.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Monheim-Haus Bürgel and Watchtower WP 1/51
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 283 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 43
- 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. 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.
Read the complete Monheim-Haus Bürgel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Monheim-Haus Bürgel is where the day begins. Next is Bonn.
2. Bonn
Bonn is a university city that spent forty years pretending to be a capital, and it carried it off with a modest air. After the war it became the seat of the West German government, and the former federal quarter along the Rhine still has the clean, low-key look of ministries designed not to impress. Before that, Bonn had been a seat of the Cologne prince-electors, whose baroque palace now houses the university, and it was also the birthplace of Beethoven, whose small house in the old town is one of the most visited composer museums anywhere.
Read the complete Bonn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Bonn comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 1/51.
3. Watchtower WP 1/51
The Upper Germanic Limes does not start with a bang. Near Bendorf, on the slopes where the Westerwald drops toward the Rhine at the Neuwied basin, it is a matter of reading the woods: a low bank here, a shallow ditch there, and the spot where a Roman watchtower once stood, numbered by archaeologists as WP 1/51. The towers were placed within sight of each other, timber at first and later stone, so that a signal could pass along the frontier faster than any rider. Standing here among the beech trees you are close to the northern end of a border that ran more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/51 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 Watchtower WP 1/51. Next is back through Bonn.
4. back through Bonn
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bonn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Bonn, late in the day. Next is Monheim-Haus Bürgel.
5. Monheim-Haus Bürgel
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monheim-Haus Bürgel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Monheim-Haus Bürgel. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Monheim-Haus Bürgel to Bonn
Monheim-Haus Bürgel → Bonn is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bonn to Watchtower WP 1/51
Bonn → Watchtower WP 1/51 is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/51 to back through Bonn
Watchtower WP 1/51 → back through Bonn is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bonn to Monheim-Haus Bürgel
back through Bonn → Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.