CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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292 km from Neuwied to Neuwied, about 4 h 09 of riding. On the way it passes Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2, Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell and back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Roman frontier in Germany was not a wall in the way that Hadrian's was in Britain. It was a line of wooden towers, small forts and a ditch and palisade, running for hundreds of kilometres from the Rhine near Neuwied to the Danube, and the stretch here, near Melsbach, is where it began. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, as it is formally called, is a World Heritage Site, and the numbered watchtowers, of which this is one, were the eyes of the frontier.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/31 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/31 is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2.
Bornheim is asparagus country, and if you ride past the Kottenforst in late spring you will see why. The sandy soil on the Rhine terraces just south of Cologne suits the white spears perfectly, and from roughly April to the end of June the farm stands along the roads sell them by the kilo, along with strawberries that follow soon afterwards. This is the Vorgebirge, a low ridge between the Rhine plain and the Eifel foothills, long used for market gardening and orchards, and the Weißer Stein stop sits in the woodland at its edge.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 write-up.
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Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 comes up 65 km in. Next is Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell.
The Rhine was the northern frontier of the Roman Empire for centuries, and the string of forts, towers and camps along its western bank is now recognised as the Lower Germanic Limes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021.
Read the complete Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell write-up.
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131 km in you reach Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2.
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Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 write-up.
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back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 1/31.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/31 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 1/31. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 1/31 → Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 → Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Neuss-Reckberg | Kleinkastell → back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Am Weißen Stein 2 → Watchtower WP 1/31 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.