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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A 310 km round trip from Höhr-Grenzhausen - roughly 4 h 15 in the saddle. On the way it passes Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof, Dormagen and back through Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Höhr-Grenzhausen is the capital of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' land, a corner of the Westerwald where the clay is so good that people have been making pots from it for five hundred years. The grey stoneware, fired at high temperature and decorated in cobalt blue, was exported across Europe in the form of jugs, tankards and bottles, and the workshops and kilns still fill the town. The German Ceramics Museum in Höhr-Grenzhausen is one of the best of its kind, with objects from medieval jugs to modern art.
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Watchtower WP 1/65 is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof.
There is very little to see at first glance here, which is exactly what makes the place oddly moving. South of Bonn, in the edge of the Kottenforst near the Heiderhof quarter of Bad Godesberg and the town of Wachtberg, the forest floor hides the faint outlines of Roman practice camps. Legionaries stationed at the fortress of Bonna on the Rhine marched out here to train at the hard, boring work that won the empire its wars: digging ditches, throwing up earth ramparts and laying out a camp to the standard plan in a few hours. A handful of these training camps in the Kottenforst are part of the Lower German Limes, the Roman frontier along the Rhine recognised by UNESCO in 2021.
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Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof comes up about 74 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 151 km into the recorded legs you reach Dormagen. Next is back through Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof write-up.
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back through Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 1/65.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/65 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 1/65. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 1/65 → Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof → Dormagen is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dormagen → back through Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Heiderhof → Watchtower WP 1/65 is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.