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 188 km to Höhr-Grenzhausen; allow about 3 h 10 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34, Remagen, Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar and back through Remagen. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 26 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Roman frontier in Germany starts at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and climbs into the hills of the Westerwald, and Watchtower WP 1/73, near Hillscheid, belongs to that first stretch. The numbers tell you where you are: section one, tower seventy-three. All that survives is a low mound in the woods, but in the second and third centuries it was a stone tower with a view over the frontier line and, behind it, the palisade and ditch that ran across the landscape. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes has been part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire since 2005, and this is where it all begins.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/73 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/73 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 26 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 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Remagen. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar.
The southern Kottenforst is the Bonn locals' own backyard, and on a fine Sunday it feels like it. Tracks and rides cross the woodland in all directions, and the people on them are walkers, joggers, riders and families on bicycles rather than motorbikes. The name on the label, with its mention of a pond-like hollow called Maar, hints at the wet, clay-lined depressions that dot this plateau and hold water after rain. Underneath lie old Roman remains too, including part of the Eifel aqueduct that carried water toward Cologne, though you will see it only if you know where to look.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar write-up.
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Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar, about halfway. Next is back through Remagen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Remagen sits at 104 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 163 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 1/73.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/73 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtower WP 1/73 closes the day.
Watchtower WP 1/73 → Watchtowers WP 1/32 to 1/34 is 26 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 → Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar → back through Remagen is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 1/73 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.