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 Straubing it runs 317 km to Straubing; allow about 4 h 34 of riding. It goes by way of Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, Fort site of Burgsalach and back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
75 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.
82 km on Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Fort site of Burgsalach.
In 1950, workmen digging in a Straubing suburb found a hoard that stunned archaeologists: a collection of Roman parade armour, helmets with face masks and decorated metal pieces, buried in the third century, probably to hide them from invaders. The Straubing Roman treasure is now one of the most important finds of its kind north of the Alps, and it is displayed in the Gäubodenmuseum in the city. The fort at St Peter, on the eastern edge of town, was part of the same Roman presence. Straubing was Sorviodurum, a Roman town with several forts on the Danube frontier, and this was one of several forts there.
Read the complete Straubing - Kastell St. Peter write-up.
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Straubing - Kastell St. Peter 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 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
The small fortlet at Burgsalach stood on the Raetian Limes, the eastern section of Rome's frontier in Germany. Dating from a late phase of the frontier, it had walls of stone and was compact and well defended, more like a small castle than the usual timber watchtower, and its name lives on in the village of Burgsalach nearby. The outline of the walls can still be traced on the ground, and like the rest of the frontier it is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, in the hills of Middle Franconia, the Raetian Limes was not a palisade but a stone wall, which local legend later attributed to the Devil himself, calling it the Teufelsmauer.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site of Burgsalach. Next is back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, late in the day. Next is Straubing - Kastell St. Peter, 76 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Straubing - Kastell St. Peter write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Straubing - Kastell St. Peter. That is the ride.
Straubing - Kastell St. Peter → Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Fort site of Burgsalach is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fort site of Burgsalach → back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Straubing - Kastell St. Peter is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.