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 Sankt Goarshausen it runs 188 km to Sankt Goarshausen; allow about 3 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a, Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the, Remagen and back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the. It follows river valleys.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 27 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Between Bingen and Koblenz, the Rhine cuts a deep, winding gorge through the slate hills of the Rhenish Massif, and for centuries this has been one of the great landscapes of Europe: steep slopes covered with vineyards, castles on every crag, villages of half-timbered houses along the river, and barges gliding past. The Upper Middle Rhine Valley was listed by UNESCO in 2002, and Sankt Goarshausen sits at its heart, at the foot of the most famous rock on the river.
Read the complete Upper Middle Rhine Valley write-up.
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Upper Middle Rhine Valley is where the day begins. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a.
Bad Ems sits in a narrow, wooded bend of the Lahn river, where the valley is so steep that the town seems poured into the gap. It has been a spa since the Middle Ages, and by the nineteenth century it was one of the most fashionable in Europe. Kings, tsars and composers came to take the thermal waters, and the town is filled with grand hotels, a colonnaded Kurhaus and a Russian Orthodox church built for the Tsarist visitors. Dostoevsky came to take the cure in the 1870s, and in 1870 an incident in the park gave the town a place in history books.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a write-up.
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Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
The Upper Germanic Limes begins a few kilometres from here, at Rheinbrohl on the Rhine, and in its first miles it climbs straight up into the Westerwald. Watchtowers numbered WP 1/41 to 1/50 mark a short run of that frontier in the wooded hills behind Neuwied and Bendorf, near the villages of Stromberg, Anhausen and Heimbach-Weis. Do not expect towers. What remains is a low bank, a ditch you can trace through the beech trunks, and here and there the outline of a tower base marked by archaeologists.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the. Next is Remagen.
On 7 March 1945, soldiers of the US 9th Armored Division reached Remagen and found the Ludendorff railway bridge across the Rhine still standing, despite German attempts to blow it. They rushed across, and for the first time the Allies had a foothold on the far bank of the great river. Ten days later the damaged bridge collapsed, but by then pontoons had been built and the war in the west had entered its last chapter. What remains today are the black stone towers on both banks, and those on the Remagen side house a small peace museum telling the story with honesty and without glorification.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
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Remagen, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the sits at 113 km, about halfway. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a comes up about 161 km into the recorded legs. Next is Upper Middle Rhine Valley.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Upper Middle Rhine Valley write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Upper Middle Rhine Valley closes the day.
Upper Middle Rhine Valley → Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Remagen is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/93 a → Upper Middle Rhine Valley is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.