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 Idstein it runs 100 km to Idstein; allow about 2 h 09 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtower WP 3/38*, Building remains southwest of Saalburg and back through Watchtower WP 3/38*. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 18 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Taunusstein did not exist as a town until 1971, when ten villages on the high plateau north of Wiesbaden were merged into one municipality, and so it has no old centre, just a cluster of former villages, each with its church, its half-timbered houses and its fields. One of them, Wehen, gave its name to the football club SV Wehen Wiesbaden, which started here before moving to the city. The Roman frontier ran along the edge of this plateau, and watchtower SP 3/5, close to the line, is one of the many small sites that mark it in the forest between Taunusstein and Idstein.
Read the complete Watchtower SP 3/5* write-up.
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Watchtower SP 3/5* is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 3/38*.
The Taunus is a range of wooded hills north-west of Frankfurt, rising to 878 metres at the Großer Feldberg, and it has long been the city's playground, with forests, spa towns and winding roads. Through these hills ran the Upper Germanic Limes, the Roman frontier that stretched for over five hundred kilometres across Germany, and one of its watchtowers, numbered WP 3/38, stood near the village of Glashütten, close to Waldems and Königstein im Taunus.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/38* write-up.
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Watchtower WP 3/38* comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Building remains southwest of Saalburg. Next is back through Watchtower WP 3/38*.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/38* write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 3/38*, late in the day. Next is Watchtower SP 3/5*.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower SP 3/5* write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower SP 3/5*. That is the ride.
Watchtower SP 3/5* → Watchtower WP 3/38* is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 3/38* → Building remains southwest of Saalburg is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains southwest of Saalburg → back through Watchtower WP 3/38* is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 3/38* → Watchtower SP 3/5* is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.