CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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209 km from Münzenberg to Münzenberg, about 2 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Fortlet Lochmühle, Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach, Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach.
The ride follows Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → Fortlet Lochmühle for 30 km.
26 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
The Roman frontier in Germany, the Limes, ran for over five hundred kilometres from the Rhine to the Danube, a line of palisades, ditches, walls, watchtowers and forts that marked the edge of the empire. In the Wetterau, north of Frankfurt, the Limes swung east in a great bulge to enclose this fertile plain, which the Romans valued for its farmland. In the woods near Wölfersheim stood a signal tower, one of the many small posts along the line, and today its remains are part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald write-up.
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Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is where the day begins. Next is Fortlet Lochmühle.
The Lochmühle is a small fortlet on the Limes in the Taunus, near Wehrheim and the famous Saalburg, and it guarded a spot where the frontier crossed the valley of the Erlenbach stream. Fortlets like this were small outposts, housing a handful of soldiers who watched the border and controlled traffic, and they formed a link between the watchtowers and the larger forts. Its remains are modest, but the location, in a quiet valley surrounded by forest, has a peaceful charm. The name comes from a nearby mill, now a popular leisure park for families with play areas and farm animals.
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Fortlet Lochmühle comes up 27 km in. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach.
Butzbach lies in the Wetterau, a fertile, rolling plain north of Frankfurt, with the wooded Taunus hills rising to the south. In Roman times, the Limes, the frontier of the Empire, ran through this country, and a fort stood on the site of today's town, with a civil settlement, or vicus, growing beside it to serve the soldiers. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, a stretch of palisade, ditch and wall that ran for hundreds of kilometres, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Butzbach is one of the places along its line.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach write-up.
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54 km in you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach. Next is Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456.
The Saalburg is the Roman fort that Germany rebuilt. On the crest of the Taunus north of Bad Homburg, where the Limes crossed a pass, archaeologists excavated the remains of a fort in the nineteenth century, and between 1897 and 1907, with the enthusiastic support of Kaiser Wilhelm II, it was reconstructed with walls, gates, barracks and a headquarters building. Today it is a museum and archaeological park, and the civil settlement, or vicus, that grew up outside the fort lies east of the B 456 road. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site.
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Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach sits at 108 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fortlet Lochmühle.
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Read the complete Fortlet Lochmühle write-up.
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back through Fortlet Lochmühle comes up 135 km in. Next is Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald write-up.
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Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald closes the day.
Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → Fortlet Lochmühle is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Lochmühle → Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach → Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Butzbach → back through Fortlet Lochmühle is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlet Lochmühle → Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.