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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251 km from Uedem to Uedem, about 3 h 52 of riding. On the way it passes Arnhem-Meinerswijk, Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg and back through Arnhem-Meinerswijk. It crosses from Germany into Netherlands - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Between Uedem and Kalkar, the Hochwald is a block of forest on a low ridge in the flat country of the Lower Rhine, a few kilometres from the Dutch border. It looks like a quiet, orderly German woodland, with rows of pine and beech, forest tracks and the smell of resin, but the ridge has a hard history. In February and March 1945, during the Allied offensive to clear the area between the Maas and the Rhine, known as Operation Veritable, the Hochwald was part of a German defensive line, and some of the fiercest fighting of the campaign took place among its trees, with tanks bogged in mud and infantry digging in under shell fire.
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Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 is where the day begins. Next is Arnhem-Meinerswijk.
The Rhine has always been a frontier here. In Roman times, the Lower Rhine marked the northern edge of the empire, and the Romans built a chain of forts, watchtowers and roads along its banks to guard it. At Meinerswijk, on the southern bank of the river opposite Arnhem, the remains of one of those forts lie buried in the floodplain. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021. There is little to see on the surface, but the floodplain itself, a wide expanse of meadows, ponds and willows, is a pleasant place to walk, and markers explain the history.
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Arnhem-Meinerswijk comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg.
A modern fort and a Roman one stand within a couple of kilometres of each other here, and both exist because of the same river. Vechten, on the Kromme Rijn just east of Utrecht, was the Roman fort of Fectio, one of the best-known sites on the Lower Germanic frontier. It lay at a point where the Rhine split, with the branch that became the Vecht heading north, and that made it a perfect depot. Soldiers, grain, and building stone all went through here, and archaeologists have pulled a remarkable amount out of the ground, including altars, bronze statuettes and the debris of a busy harbour.
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about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg. Next is back through Arnhem-Meinerswijk.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Arnhem-Meinerswijk write-up.
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back through Arnhem-Meinerswijk, late in the day. Next is Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12. That is the ride.
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 → Arnhem-Meinerswijk is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Arnhem-Meinerswijk → Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg → back through Arnhem-Meinerswijk is 59 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Arnhem-Meinerswijk → Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 12 is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.