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 194 km round trip from Hengstdal - roughly 3 h 21 in the saddle. The stops in between: Till, Xanten-CUT, Moers-Asberg and back through Xanten-CUT. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. Open plateau country, wide and exposed.
Kopse Hof is the name given to this northern corner of the plateau, and the first thing to say is that the Roman layer is under your feet, not in front of you. For the last few decades Dutch archaeologists have dug across this ridge ahead of every new street and housing block, and what they found was astonishing: ditches, postholes, the outlines of timber barracks, pits and graves, pottery, coins, tools and shoe soles preserved in the wet. A city sits on top of a legionary camp, and the modern streets of Nijmegen run over the old Roman roads.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | Kopse Hof North write-up.
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Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | Kopse Hof North is where the day begins. Next is Till.
The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.
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Till comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Xanten-CUT.
Xanten is an old Roman town that still behaves like a small, cosy market town on the Lower Rhine, and right next to it lies one of the largest archaeological parks in Germany. Colonia Ulpia Traiana, CUT for short, was founded around AD 100 under the emperor Trajan, who gave it the rank of a colonia and his family name. At its height it was a walled city of several thousand people, the second most important Roman city in the province of Lower Germany after Cologne.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Xanten-CUT. Next is Moers-Asberg.
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.
Read the complete Moers-Asberg write-up.
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Moers-Asberg, about halfway. Next is back through Xanten-CUT.
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Read the complete Xanten-CUT write-up.
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back through Xanten-CUT sits at 133 km, about halfway. Next is back through Till.
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Read the complete Till write-up.
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back through Till comes up about 163 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | Kopse Hof North.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | Kopse Hof North write-up.
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Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | Kopse Hof North closes the day.
Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | Kopse Hof North → Till is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → Xanten-CUT is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Xanten-CUT → Moers-Asberg is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moers-Asberg → back through Xanten-CUT is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Xanten-CUT → back through Till is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Till → Nijmegen-Kops Plateau | Kopse Hof North is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.