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 Höhr-Grenzhausen it runs 320 km to Höhr-Grenzhausen; allow about 3 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1, Dormagen and back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1. The line favours views over speed.
Above Koblenz, on the edge of the Westerwald, the potters of Höhr-Grenzhausen have been making grey, salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt-blue decoration for centuries, giving this corner of Germany its nickname, the Kannenbäckerland, the land of jug bakers. In the forest nearby, the site of Roman watchtower WP 1/60 on the Upper German-Raetian Limes is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site. The tower was one of hundreds along the frontier, a wooden or stone structure from which soldiers watched the land beyond and signalled to their neighbours.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/60 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/60 is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1.
The Kottenforst is a big, flat-topped wooded ridge south-west of Bonn, an island of oak and hornbeam in a landscape of fields and commuter towns. It was a hunting forest of the Electors of Cologne, and the straight avenues that cut through it, still named Allee, were laid out in the eighteenth century so that a hunting party could ride after game, or follow falcons, in a precise geometric pattern. Elector Clemens August, who built the Augustusburg palace at Brühl and the little hunting lodge of Falkenlust beside it, loved heron hunting with falcons, and the avenues were part of that grand and slightly absurd game.
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Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dormagen.
Dormagen is not the sort of place that ends up on postcards, and it does not try to be. It is a working town of some sixty thousand on the left bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf, dominated on its northern side by a huge chemical park whose pipes and stacks glow at night. Yet the name itself comes from Roman times: Durnomagus was a fort on the Lower German Limes, the Rhine frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and a cavalry unit was stationed here to patrol the river and the road along it.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Dormagen. Next is back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 1/60.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/60 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 1/60. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 1/60 → Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 → Dormagen is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dormagen → back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Wattendorfer Allee 1 → Watchtower WP 1/60 is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.