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 Bendorf it runs 85 km to Bendorf; allow about 1 h 55 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22, Remagen and back through Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 16 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Roman frontier in Germany began on the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, a few kilometres downstream from Koblenz, where the first watchtower of the Upper Germanic Limes, WP 1/1, stood on the riverbank. From there, the frontier ran south-east through the Westerwald and the Taunus, and the watchtower WP 1/52, near Bendorf, stood on this early section, close to the Rhine and the confluence of the Moselle at Koblenz. The tower is long gone, but its site is part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and the Roemerwelt museum at Rheinbrohl brings the life of the frontier soldiers vividly to life with reconstructions and hands-on exhibits.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/52 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtower WP 1/52 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22.
Above Leutesdorf, on the right bank of the Rhine between Neuwied and Bad Hönningen, the hills climb steeply from the river, covered with vineyards and forests, and the Roman frontier ran along their crest. Watchtowers WP 1/21 and 1/22 stood here in the early part of the Upper Germanic Limes, just a few kilometres from its starting point at Rheinbrohl, watching over the valley and the lands beyond. Today the tower sites are quiet spots in the woods, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Remagen. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 1/52.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/52 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 1/52. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 1/52 → Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 → Remagen is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → back through Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 → Watchtower WP 1/52 is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.