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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329 km from Höhr-Grenzhausen to Höhr-Grenzhausen, about 3 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee, Dormagen and back through Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Höhr-Grenzhausen smells faintly of kilns if you catch it on the right day. This small town on the western edge of the Westerwald, a few kilometres north-east of Koblenz, sits at the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' country, where potters have been turning the local grey clay into salt-glazed stoneware for centuries. The Roman frontier passed right through here too, and watchtower WP 1/62 was one of the posts on the Upper Germanic Limes as it ran across these hills, now part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Watchtower WP 1/62 is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee.
The Kottenforst is a big, flat, rather mysterious forest on the plateau south-west of Bonn, crossed by long, dead-straight avenues laid out by the Electors of Cologne in the eighteenth century as hunting rides. The Bellerbuschallee is one of them, and walking or riding along it you pass oak and beech, wet hollows and the occasional deer. Under the trees, though, lie traces much older than the Electors: the low ramparts of Roman practice camps, where legionaries from Bonn learned to dig defences quickly. These camps form part of the Lower German Limes World Heritage listing inscribed in 2021.
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Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee comes up about 82 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 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Dormagen. Next is back through Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee.
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Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee write-up.
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back through Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 1/62.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/62 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 1/62. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 1/62 → Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee → Dormagen is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dormagen → back through Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Bellerbuschallee → Watchtower WP 1/62 is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.