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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113 km from Höhr-Grenzhausen to Höhr-Grenzhausen, about 1 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34, Remagen and back through Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34. 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 19 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34.
Just north of Neuwied, the Westerwald begins to climb out of the Rhine valley, and the Roman frontier ran up through the woods from its starting point on the river, rising and falling over the low ridges. The Limes here is the Upper German section in its earliest stretch, where watchtowers 1/32 to 1/34 stood close together on the hillside above the Wied, a small river that runs through a pretty, wooded valley to join the Rhine. Melsbach, a village of two thousand people next to the point, lies in this valley, and the surrounding hills are a mix of beech forest, meadow and the fields of the Neuwied basin.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34 comes up about 19 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.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Remagen. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34, 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 → Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34 → Remagen is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → back through Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34 → Watchtower WP 1/60 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.