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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88 km from Höhr-Grenzhausen to Höhr-Grenzhausen, about 1 h 34 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems, Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 21 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Höhr-Grenzhausen is clay country, and that decides almost everything about this part of the Westerwald. The hills hold a thick seam of fine, high-quality stoneware clay, and for centuries the area has been known as the Kannenbäckerland, the land of the jug makers. Grey salt-glazed pottery with blue decoration, called Westerwald stoneware, was exported across Europe from here, and workshops and a ceramics museum still keep the trade alive. It is a surprising backdrop for a Roman watchtower, but the Romans were here first, and WP 1/61 is one of the numbered posts of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2005.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/61 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtower WP 1/61 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems.
Rome built in stone here, and then the town grew on top of it. Bad Ems stands where the Lahn winds through a tight gorge, and the fort and the civil settlement beside it formed a small frontier community, with soldiers, traders and families living in the shadow of the Limes. The Roman fort is now buried beneath the modern town, so the site is more an idea than a sight, but the Limes trail in the woods above makes the story easy to follow, and the town museum helps with the details.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe.
Marienfels is a small village in the hills of the western Taunus, between the Rhine and the Lahn, and it sits on the site of a Roman fort and its civilian settlement, part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. The frontier wall ran through these hills, and the fort housed a garrison that guarded the frontier and the roads that crossed it. Little remains above ground, but excavations have revealed the outline of the fort and the settlement, with houses, baths and workshops.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 1/61.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/61 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 1/61. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 1/61 → Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems → Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems → Watchtower WP 1/61 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.