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 Würzburg it runs 277 km to Würzburg; allow about 3 h 59 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtower WP 7/37, Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 and back through Watchtower WP 7/37. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 62 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Würzburg sits on the Main in lower Franconia, and the Rosenbach label puts you on its northern edge of green space, a few minutes from the old centre rather than out in open country. Take it as what it is, a pleasant city stop among the trams and one-way streets, and the real interest lies in the town around it.
Read the complete Rosenbach Park write-up.
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Rosenbach Park is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 7/37.
The Romans liked straight lines, and nowhere more than here. On the edge of Walldürn, in the hilly country between the Odenwald and the Tauber valley, runs the course of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, the frontier wall that marked the edge of the Roman Empire across what is now southern Germany. Watchtower WP 7/37 is one of hundreds of small posts that lined it, each within sight of the next, so that signals could be passed along the frontier. The Limes here famously runs almost dead straight for many kilometres, regardless of hills and valleys, a statement of Roman confidence and surveying skill.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 7/37 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 7/37 comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68.
Between Öhringen and Mainhardt, the Upper German Limes does something a Roman engineer must have been proud of: it runs dead straight for many kilometres, up hill and down dale, ignoring the terrain as if drawn with a ruler on a map. The watchtower sites numbered along this section lie on that line, in the Hohenlohe country of northern Württemberg, between the open farmland around Pfedelbach and the dark wooded hills of the Swabian-Franconian Forest.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 136 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68. Next is back through Watchtower WP 7/37.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 7/37 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 7/37, late in the day. Next is Rosenbach Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rosenbach Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rosenbach Park. That is the ride.
Rosenbach Park → Watchtower WP 7/37 is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 7/37 → Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 → back through Watchtower WP 7/37 is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Watchtower WP 7/37 → Rosenbach Park is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.