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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258 km from Gunzenhausen to Gunzenhausen, about 4 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, Water Management System of Augsburg and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 85 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Gunzenhausen is a small town in Middle Franconia, on the Altmühl river, and the Roman frontier ran right through it. Watchtower WP 13/54 stood within what is now the town, and the course of the frontier is traced through the streets. It is unusual to find the Roman frontier in an urban setting, and it is a nice surprise as you wander the streets.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 13/54 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 13/54 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Above the village of Pfünz, on a spur of white Jura limestone looking down into the Altmühl valley, the Romans built a fort they called Vetoniana. Today a reconstructed gate and a stretch of wall stand on the hilltop, and from up there you understand the choice at once: the valley floor curls below you, the river meanders slowly, and anyone moving along it would have been seen hours before they arrived.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz comes up about 56 km into the recorded legs. Next is Water Management System of Augsburg.
Augsburg was a Roman town, a medieval free imperial city and the home of the fabulously rich Fugger banking family, but the thing that held it all together was water. Over the centuries, the city built an intricate network of canals fed by the Lech and Wertach rivers, water towers, pumping stations and fountains, supplying clean drinking water to the citizens and power to mills and workshops. The system was so advanced that UNESCO inscribed it in 2019, recognising twenty-two sites, from the water towers at the Red Gate, dating back to the fifteenth century, to the great Renaissance fountains dedicated to Augustus, Mercury and Hercules on the main street.
Read the complete Water Management System of Augsburg write-up.
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about 129 km into the recorded legs you reach Water Management System of Augsburg. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 13/54.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 13/54 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 13/54. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 13/54 → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Water Management System of Augsburg is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Water Management System of Augsburg → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Watchtower WP 13/54 is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.