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 Monheim am Rhein it runs 343 km to Monheim am Rhein; allow about 6 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Köln-Alteburg, Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2, Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the and Watchtower WP 1/73. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
35 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it — speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
For about 48 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
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.
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Monheim-Haus Bürgel is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Köln-Alteburg write-up.
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Köln-Alteburg comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2 write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
Here is where the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the longest stretch of Roman frontier in Europe, begins. The Romans started the line at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and ran it up over the hills of the Westerwald, then on through the Taunus and beyond for more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube. The section with watchtowers numbered WP 1/11 to 1/20 follows the first climb away from the river through the forests above Rheinbrohl, Hammerstein and Niederbreitbach. Most of the towers survive only as low mounds of stone in the woods, but the course of the frontier ditch and rampart can often be traced on foot, and there are information boards and a few reconstructions along the way.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the, about halfway. Next is Watchtower WP 1/73.
The Roman frontier in Germany starts at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and climbs into the hills of the Westerwald, and Watchtower WP 1/73, near Hillscheid, belongs to that first stretch. The numbers tell you where you are: section one, tower seventy-three. All that survives is a low mound in the woods, but in the second and third centuries it was a stone tower with a view over the frontier line and, behind it, the palisade and ditch that ran across the landscape. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes has been part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire since 2005, and this is where it all begins.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/73 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/73 sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2.
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Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2 write-up.
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about 255 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2. Next is back through Köln-Alteburg.
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Read the complete Köln-Alteburg write-up.
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back through Köln-Alteburg, late in the day. Next is Monheim-Haus Bürgel.
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Read the complete Monheim-Haus Bürgel write-up.
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The route ends here after 343 km.
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 → Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → Watchtower WP 1/73 is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/73 → back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 2 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.