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 257 km round trip from Schmitten - roughly 4 h 24 in the saddle. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe, Fortlet Rheinbohl and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe. 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 56 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
High in the Taunus, the wooded hills northwest of Frankfurt, the Roman Limes followed the ridge line, and its watchtowers looked out over the forests to the north. Watchtower WP 3/49, near Schmitten and Glashütten, is one of hundreds of such posts recorded along the frontier, and today its remains lie in the woods, a low mound or a scatter of stones. The Limes path, a long-distance walking trail, follows the line through the forest, and walkers can trace the ditch and bank of the old frontier for kilometres. The whole line is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/49* write-up.
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Watchtower WP 3/49* is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe.
Marienfels is a small village in the hills of the western Taunus, between the Rhine and the Lahn, and it sits on the site of a Roman fort and its civilian settlement, part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. The frontier wall ran through these hills, and the fort housed a garrison that guarded the frontier and the roads that crossed it. Little remains above ground, but excavations have revealed the outline of the fort and the settlement, with houses, baths and workshops.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortlet Rheinbohl.
Rheinbrohl is where Germany's longest Roman frontier begins. The Upper Germanic Limes, a line of watchtowers, palisades and forts, starts at the Rhine here and runs east and south for some five hundred kilometres across Germany. At the Rheinbohl fortlet you can see the lines of a small Roman post, a few dozen soldiers who watched the river approach and the crossing over to the left bank. It is a modest place in terms of stonework, but the idea is wonderfully clear: an empire decided that this is where it ended, and put a post on the end of it.
Read the complete Fortlet Rheinbohl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortlet Rheinbohl. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 3/49*.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/49* write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 3/49*. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 3/49* → Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe → Fortlet Rheinbohl is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Rheinbohl → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marienfe → Watchtower WP 3/49* is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.