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 Regensburg it runs 217 km to Regensburg; allow about 4 h 05 of riding. On the way it passes Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz and back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 33 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Regensburg exists because of a decision made in the year 179. The emperor Marcus Aurelius was fighting the Marcomanni and other tribes across the Danube, and a new legionary fortress was needed on the northern frontier of the province of Raetia. The site chosen was a bluff on the south bank of the Danube, near the point where the river Regen comes in from the north. The fortress was named Castra Regina, the camp by the Regen, and the Third Italic Legion, raised by Marcus Aurelius himself, was stationed there.
Read the complete Regensburg - Legionslager I write-up.
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Regensburg - Legionslager I is where the day begins. Next is Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
The Danube does something unexpected just upstream of Kelheim. Instead of wandering across flat Bavarian farmland, it cuts straight through a band of white Jurassic limestone, squeezed between cliffs that rise steeply from the water. This is the Weltenburg Narrows, and on the hill above the abbey at Weltenburg, at the spot called Am Galget, the Romans put a small fort to watch the river and the frontier.
Read the complete Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
The Altmühl valley in Bavaria is one of Germany's best kept riding secrets, a winding river valley cut deep into Jurassic limestone, lined with juniper heaths, rock towers and castles. Near where the valley meets the Danube, the Roman frontier, the Raetian Limes, ran across the land, and the stretch of watchtowers and small forts numbered WP 15/11 to 15/26 lies in the wooded hills here, between Riedenburg, Dietfurt and the Danube town of Vohburg.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Above the village of Pfünz, on a spur of white Jura limestone looking down into the Altmühl valley, the Romans built a fort they called Vetoniana. Today a reconstructed gate and a stretch of wall stand on the hilltop, and from up there you understand the choice at once: the valley floor curls below you, the river meanders slowly, and anyone moving along it would have been seen hours before they arrived.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets sits at 119 km, about halfway. Next is back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell comes up about 181 km into the recorded legs. Next is Regensburg - Legionslager I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Regensburg - Legionslager I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Regensburg - Legionslager I closes the day.
Regensburg - Legionslager I → Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Regensburg - Legionslager I is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.