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 318 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.
76 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.
Straubing sits on a bend of the Danube in the fertile Gäuboden, the flat, loess-rich farmland that gave Lower Bavaria its reputation for heavy harvests, and the Romans liked it for the same reason. A cavalry fort stood here, on the eastern edge of what is now the town, guarding the river line, and a civilian settlement grew around it. The most remarkable find came in 1950, when workmen digging a cellar uncovered a hoard of Roman parade armour, gilded helmets and masks used by cavalrymen in displays. It is now a prize exhibit in the local museum, and it is one of the finest such finds in Europe.
Read the complete Straubing - Ostkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Straubing - Ostkastell 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 - Ostkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Straubing - Ostkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Straubing - Ostkastell. That is the ride.
Straubing - Ostkastell → 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 - Ostkastell is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.