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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196 km from Holzhausen an der Haide to Holzhausen an der Haide, about 3 h of riding. On the way it passes Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em, Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the, Remagen and back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 34 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Holzhausen an der Haide is a small village on the high ground of the western Taunus, between the Rhine and the Lahn, and it has one of the better-preserved Roman fort sites along the Limes. The stone walls of Kastell Holzhausen still stand to a modest height in the fields just outside the village, outlining the fort's rectangle with its rounded corners and gates. Watchtower WP 2/31 belongs to the chain of towers that linked forts like this one along the frontier, and in this open landscape you can easily imagine the signals passing from hill to hill.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 2/31 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 2/31 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em.
Bad Ems has been a spa town since the Romans noticed the springs, and today it is a handsome, slightly faded place squeezed into the narrow Lahn valley between wooded hills. The town and its surroundings sit on the line of the Upper Germanic Limes, which the Roman Empire pushed through here to protect the valley and its minerals. A fortlet and a watchtower were built on the heights above the river, and the remains give the numbered label its meaning. Walk a short way up and you can see why the soldiers picked the spot: the slopes drop sharply to the water, and the view along the valley is long.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em write-up.
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Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
The Upper Germanic Limes begins a few kilometres from here, at Rheinbrohl on the Rhine, and in its first miles it climbs straight up into the Westerwald. Watchtowers numbered WP 1/41 to 1/50 mark a short run of that frontier in the wooded hills behind Neuwied and Bendorf, near the villages of Stromberg, Anhausen and Heimbach-Weis. Do not expect towers. What remains is a low bank, a ditch you can trace through the beech trunks, and here and there the outline of a tower base marked by archaeologists.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the write-up.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the. 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.
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Remagen, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the sits at 116 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em write-up.
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back through Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em comes up about 171 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 2/31.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 2/31 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtower WP 2/31 closes the day.
Watchtower WP 2/31 → Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Remagen is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → back through Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 2/1 including fortlet Bad Em → Watchtower WP 2/31 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.