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 302 km round trip from Regensburg - roughly 4 h 54 in the saddle. It goes by way of Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo and Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Marcus Aurelius had the legionary fortress of Castra Regina built here, on the northernmost bend of the Danube, and its north gate, the Porta Praetoria, still stands in Regensburg's old town, built into later buildings, with a foundation inscription dated to AD 179. Outside the fortress walls, the canabae, the civilian settlements where traders, craftsmen and soldiers' families lived, spread along the river, and the eastern canabae are a piece of the World Heritage property for the Danube Limes. Regensburg's medieval old town, built on top of the Roman city, has its own UNESCO listing.
Read the complete Regensburg - Östliche Canabae write-up.
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Regensburg - Östliche Canabae 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 Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
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about 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47.
Up in the hills above the Altmühl valley, west of Neustadt an der Donau and the Danube, the old Raetian frontier crossed some of its prettiest country. The numbers 15/27 to 15/47 cover a long stretch of the line, and because that line follows the ridges and plateau edges, the landscape is a mixture of fields, juniper-dotted limestone slopes and sheltered woods. The Altmühl itself is a slow river that has cut a deep, winding valley through Jurassic limestone, and the whole district is a nature park, known for fossils from the quarries at Solnhofen.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo comes up about 188 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
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about 227 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching. Next is back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, late in the day. Next is Regensburg - Östliche Canabae.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Regensburg - Östliche Canabae write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 302 km.
Regensburg - Östliche Canabae → Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 → back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Regensburg - Östliche Canabae is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.