CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 331 km round trip from Münzenberg - roughly 5 h 25 in the saddle. It goes by way of Building remains southwest of Saalburg, Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the, Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 and Watchtower WP 1/62. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
34 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.
For about 39 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
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 Building remains southwest of Saalburg.
If you want to know what a Roman fort on the German frontier really looked like, the Saalburg is the place, and these building remains lie in the forest just southwest of it, part of the civilian and military landscape that grew up around the fort. The Saalburg itself was rebuilt at the beginning of the twentieth century on the orders of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was fascinated by Roman history and keen to present the German empire as the heir of Rome. The walls, gates, headquarters building and granaries were reconstructed on the original foundations, based on the archaeology of the time, and today the fort houses a museum full of finds from the frontier, along with workshops, a Roman garden and regular events with reenactors.
Read the complete Building remains southwest of Saalburg write-up.
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Building remains southwest of Saalburg comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the.
In the hills of the Taunus north of Wiesbaden, the Roman frontier ran along the ridges through dense forest, and between watchtowers 3/15 and 3/19 near Idstein, its line can still be traced on the ground. The Romans built an earth bank and ditch, topped with a wooden palisade, with stone watchtowers at regular intervals, close enough to see each other and signal along the line. In the forest, the bank and ditch survive as a long, low ridge and hollow, and the foundations of watchtowers appear as low mounds, sometimes with a few stones visible. The Upper Germanic and Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, has been a World Heritage site since 2005.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the write-up.
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about 93 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the. Next is Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22.
A few kilometres west of Miehlen, the Limes crosses the Einrich, a high, open plateau of fields and meadows between the Rhine and the Lahn, and the stretch with watchtowers 2/20 to 2/22, near Singhofen and Holzhausen an der Haide, is one of the quietest parts of the whole frontier. Nearby, the fort of Holzhausen is one of the best-preserved Roman forts on the Limes, with its stone walls, gates and corner towers clearly visible in the forest, a rare sight on a frontier where most remains have vanished into the fields. The whole line is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22, about halfway. Next is Watchtower WP 1/62.
Höhr-Grenzhausen smells faintly of kilns if you catch it on the right day. This small town on the western edge of the Westerwald, a few kilometres north-east of Koblenz, sits at the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' country, where potters have been turning the local grey clay into salt-glazed stoneware for centuries. The Roman frontier passed right through here too, and watchtower WP 1/62 was one of the posts on the Upper Germanic Limes as it ran across these hills, now part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/62 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/62 sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 comes up about 210 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 247 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the. Next is back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Building remains southwest of Saalburg write-up.
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back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg, late in the day. Next is Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 331 km.
Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → Building remains southwest of Saalburg is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains southwest of Saalburg → Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the → Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 → Watchtower WP 1/62 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/62 → back through Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 → back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the → back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains southwest of Saalburg → Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.