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 Remagen it runs 154 km to Remagen; allow about 3 h 08 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24, Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe, Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 22 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
On 7 March 1945, soldiers of the US 9th Armored Division reached Remagen and found the Ludendorff railway bridge across the Rhine still standing, despite German attempts to blow it. They rushed across, and for the first time the Allies had a foothold on the far bank of the great river. Ten days later the damaged bridge collapsed, but by then pontoons had been built and the war in the west had entered its last chapter. What remains today are the black stone towers on both banks, and those on the Remagen side house a small peace museum telling the story with honesty and without glorification.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
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Remagen is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24.
The Upper German-Raetian Limes began at the Rhine, at Rheinbrohl, and climbed into the hills on the east bank, and towers WP 1/23 and 1/24, near the wine village of Leutesdorf, are among the first along its route. They are now marked by foundations or mounds in the forest above the river, and they are part of the World Heritage listing. From here the frontier ran for more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube, and it is fascinating to stand at the very beginning of such an enormous undertaking.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe.
On the heights above the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Koblenz, the suburb of Niederberg sits on top of a Roman fort. It is one of the forts of the Upper Germanic Limes, which ran through the hills here a few kilometres back from the river, and the label refers to the fort site and the civilian settlement that grew up around it, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Not much is visible today, as the area is built over, but the location explains a great deal.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe write-up.
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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe.
Marienfels is a small village in the hills of the western Taunus, between the Rhine and the Lahn, and it sits on the site of a Roman fort and its civilian settlement, part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. The frontier wall ran through these hills, and the fort housed a garrison that guarded the frontier and the roads that crossed it. Little remains above ground, but excavations have revealed the outline of the fort and the settlement, with houses, baths and workshops.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 comes up about 127 km into the recorded legs. Next is Remagen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Remagen closes the day.
Remagen → Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 → Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe → Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe → back through Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 → Remagen is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.