CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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305 km from Nijmegen to Nijmegen, about 4 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: Till, Alpen-Drüpt, Krefeld-Gellep and Monheim-Haus Bürgel. It crosses from Netherlands into Germany - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Nijmegen calls itself the oldest city in the Netherlands, and it has a good case. The Romans founded a military camp on the hill here in the last years BC, and a town followed, which was given full town rights around AD 100. Many centuries later, on the same hill by the Waal, Charlemagne built a palace, the Valkhof, and Frederick Barbarossa rebuilt it in the twelfth century as a magnificent imperial residence. Little survives except for a chapel and a ruined apse, but the Valkhofpark, with its terraced slopes and view across the river, still marks the site of one of the most important places in the medieval empire.
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Nijmegen-Valkhof area | Valkhofpark 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 38 km in. Next is Alpen-Drüpt.
On the flat farmland of the Lower Rhine, between Alpen and Rheinberg, there is little to catch the eye: fields of maize and potatoes, poplars along ditches, brick farmhouses and the occasional windmill. Yet this was once the edge of the Roman world. The Rhine formed the frontier of the empire, and along its banks the Romans built legionary fortresses, forts, watchtowers and temporary camps. Alpen-Drüpt is one of the sites included in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021; like many on the list, it survives mainly below ground, known from aerial photographs and excavations rather than standing ruins.
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76 km in you reach Alpen-Drüpt. Next is Krefeld-Gellep.
Most people pass Krefeld-Gellep without a second thought, because the view is dominated by the harbour of Uerdingen, chemical works and Rhine barges. Yet this is one of the most important Roman and early medieval sites on the Lower Rhine. The Roman fort here was called Gelduba, and it belongs to the Lower German Limes, the frontier along the river that UNESCO recognised in 2021. Tacitus mentions Gelduba in his account of the Batavian revolt of 69 and 70 AD, when legions and rebels fought around the camp, and archaeologists have found traces of that violence in the ground.
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Krefeld-Gellep, about halfway. 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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Monheim-Haus Bürgel sits at 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Krefeld-Gellep.
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back through Krefeld-Gellep comes up 190 km in. Next is back through Alpen-Drüpt.
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228 km in you reach back through Alpen-Drüpt. Next is back through Till.
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back through Till, late in the day. Next is Nijmegen-Valkhof area | Valkhofpark.
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The route ends here after 305 km.
Nijmegen-Valkhof area | Valkhofpark → Till is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Till → Alpen-Drüpt is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Alpen-Drüpt → Krefeld-Gellep is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Krefeld-Gellep → Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monheim-Haus Bürgel → back through Krefeld-Gellep is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Krefeld-Gellep → back through Alpen-Drüpt is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Alpen-Drüpt → back through Till is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Till → Nijmegen-Valkhof area | Valkhofpark is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.