CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Sinzing it runs 342 km to Sinzing; allow about 5 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld, Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10, Fort site and civil settlement of Eining and Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
There is not much to see at Großprüfening, and that is worth knowing before you arrive expecting walls. The Roman fort and its civil settlement lie on the western edge of Regensburg, close to where the Naab flows into the Danube, and what survives is mostly under fields and houses, known from excavation and aerial photographs rather than from standing masonry. The site is part of the Danube Limes, the river frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and its value is in the position: a garrison watching a river junction, a natural route north into what the Romans considered barbarian country.
Read the complete Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic write-up.
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Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is where the day begins. Next is Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld.
Eining is the spot where the Danube Limes and the Raetian Limes meet, or more accurately the place where the wall and ditch ran down to the river and gave way to the water as a frontier. The Romans built a fort here called Abusina, on the south bank, with walls that can still be traced in the fields and a small museum nearby. For soldiers posted to the edge of the empire it must have felt like standing at the end of the world, with the river wide and cold in front of them and Germania on the far bank. The name Unterfeld refers to the lower field beside the fort, a plain, practical label for an ordinary piece of land.
Read the complete Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld write-up.
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Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
The Raetian Limes, the eastern stretch of Rome's frontier in Germany, was built differently from its western counterpart. Instead of a wooden palisade, the Romans eventually raised a stone wall here, running for over a hundred and sixty kilometres across what is now Bavaria, towards the Danube. Locals later called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, convinced that only a demon could have built something so long. Watchtowers stood along it every few hundred metres, and the group between WP 15/8 and 15/10, in the hills between Greding and Dietfurt, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. In places, low remains of the wall and towers can be traced in the forest and fields.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Eining.
The Danube here is already a serious river, and about two thousand years ago it was the edge of the Roman Empire. Abusina, the Roman fort at Eining, stood on the south bank, where a small tributary joins, and its soldiers watched the Germanic lands across the water. The site lies in a bend a few kilometres from Neustadt an der Donau, and what remains are the foundations of a fort that was rebuilt several times, and of a civilian settlement, with a bath house, whose walls you can see outlined in the grass. The fort ended its life in the fifth century, in the unsettled times when Rome let go of the frontier.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Eining write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Eining, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
In Bavaria, the Roman frontier changed character. Instead of the wooden palisade used in the Upper German section, the Raetian Limes was eventually built as a stone wall, known locally as the Devil's Wall, because medieval people could not imagine anyone but the devil building something so long. The stretch between Watchtowers 15/1 and 15/7 crosses the hills around the Altmühl valley, near Kipfenberg and Kinding, and the line of the wall can still be traced in places as a low ridge in the forest. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Eining write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining comes up about 215 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
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about 261 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10. Next is back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld write-up.
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back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld, late in the day. Next is Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic write-up.
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The route ends here after 342 km.
Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic → Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld → Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → Fort site and civil settlement of Eining is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Eining → Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Eining → back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld → Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.