CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Idstein it runs 325 km to Idstein; allow about 5 h 42 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22, Watchtower WP 1/62, Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f and Watchtower WP 1/64. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 34 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for 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 Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22.
A few kilometres west of Miehlen, the Limes crosses the Einrich, a high, open plateau of fields and meadows between the Rhine and the Lahn, and the stretch with watchtowers 2/20 to 2/22, near Singhofen and Holzhausen an der Haide, is one of the quietest parts of the whole frontier. Nearby, the fort of Holzhausen is one of the best-preserved Roman forts on the Limes, with its stone walls, gates and corner towers clearly visible in the forest, a rare sight on a frontier where most remains have vanished into the fields. The whole line is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 comes up 35 km in. Next is Watchtower WP 1/62.
Höhr-Grenzhausen smells faintly of kilns if you catch it on the right day. This small town on the western edge of the Westerwald, a few kilometres north-east of Koblenz, sits at the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' country, where potters have been turning the local grey clay into salt-glazed stoneware for centuries. The Roman frontier passed right through here too, and watchtower WP 1/62 was one of the posts on the Upper Germanic Limes as it ran across these hills, now part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/62 write-up.
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69 km in you reach Watchtower WP 1/62. Next is Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
North of the Taunus ridge, the Limes crossed a high, open plateau between the Rhine and the Lahn, and the stretch with watchtowers 2/23 to 2/26 runs through the farmland and woods near Miehlen and Singhofen in the Rhein-Lahn district. The remains here are subtle, mostly low banks and the traces of towers in fields and forest edges, but the line of the frontier is marked by the long-distance Limes trail and information boards. This is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, a stretch of the line that few visitors ever see.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
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Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f, about halfway. Next is Watchtower WP 1/64.
Höhr-Grenzhausen smells of clay and fire. The town, in the Westerwald hills north east of Koblenz, is the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' land, where potters have been making salt-glazed stoneware for centuries, with its characteristic grey body and cobalt blue decoration. Westerwald stoneware jugs, mugs and pots were exported across Europe and beyond, and the craft is still alive today, with workshops, a ceramics museum and a college for ceramic design. The Roman frontier ran right past the town, and the site of watchtower WP 1/64, near Höhr-Grenzhausen, is one of the many traces of the Upper German Limes, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/64 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/64 sits at 138 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f comes up 173 km in. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/62.
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Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/62 write-up.
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207 km in you reach back through Watchtower WP 1/62. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22, late in the day. Next is Watchtower SP 3/5*.
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Read the complete Watchtower SP 3/5* write-up.
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The route ends here after 325 km.
Watchtower SP 3/5* → Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 → Watchtower WP 1/62 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/62 → Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → Watchtower WP 1/64 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/64 → back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → back through Watchtower WP 1/62 is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/62 → back through Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/20 to 2/22 → Watchtower SP 3/5* is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.