CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 340 km round trip from Ober-Mörlen - roughly 6 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP, Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the, Watchtower WP 1/77 and Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 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 44 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Limes crosses the Wetterau, the fertile plain north of Frankfurt, in a long arc, and Watchtower 4/17 is one small point in it. The Wetterau is loess farmland, rich and flat, with wide fields of wheat and sugar beet, and the Romans valued it as an agricultural region, planting farms and estates beside the frontier. The tower itself, as at most of these sites, is represented today by a low mound or a marker, and a short walk will let you see the line of the frontier running across the fields.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 4/17* write-up.
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Watchtower WP 4/17* is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP.
On the western side of the Taunus, the hills are lower and the forest gives way more often to farmland, with villages in the folds of the valleys. Idstein, a small town with a remarkable old centre, sits on this side, with Waldems and Glashütten nearby. Through the woods above them ran the Roman frontier, and the stretch of watchtowers numbered WP 3/24 to 3/40 followed the ridges here, part of the Upper Germanic Limes and of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP comes up about 46 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the.
West of the Taunus ridge, where the high country rolls down toward the Rhine gorge and the Lahn, the line of the Upper German Limes runs through farmland and forest near the villages of Holzhausen an der Haide, Katzenelnbogen and Nastätten. Archaeologists have catalogued the sites of the watchtowers along this stretch, numbered WP 2/35 to 2/48, and near Holzhausen are the remains of a stone fort, well preserved and easily visited, with its walls and gate outlines clear in the grass. The Limes here consisted of a palisade of wooden stakes, later backed by a ditch and bank, with watchtowers at regular intervals and forts a few kilometres behind. It formed the frontier of the Roman Empire for more than a century and a half.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the write-up.
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about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the. Next is Watchtower WP 1/77.
In the hills of the Westerwald, east of Koblenz, the Roman frontier ran from the Rhine up across the high ground towards the Taunus, and archaeologists have numbered every tower site along it. Watchtower WP 1/77, near the villages of Kadenbach and Arzbach, is one of them, now marked by a low mound or reconstructed foundations in the woods. The frontier here was a palisade of timber and later an earth bank and ditch, with towers every few hundred metres, and the whole system is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/77 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/77, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
Here is where the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the longest stretch of Roman frontier in Europe, begins. The Romans started the line at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and ran it up over the hills of the Westerwald, then on through the Taunus and beyond for more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube. The section with watchtowers numbered WP 1/11 to 1/20 follows the first climb away from the river through the forests above Rheinbrohl, Hammerstein and Niederbreitbach. Most of the towers survive only as low mounds of stone in the woods, but the course of the frontier ditch and rampart can often be traced on foot, and there are information boards and a few reconstructions along the way.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the sits at 143 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/77.
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Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/77 write-up.
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back through Watchtower WP 1/77 comes up about 213 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the write-up.
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about 249 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 4/17*.
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Read the complete Watchtower WP 4/17* write-up.
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The route ends here after 340 km.
Watchtower WP 4/17* → Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP → Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the → Watchtower WP 1/77 is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/77 → Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → back through Watchtower WP 1/77 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/77 → back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/35 to 2/48 including the → back through Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 3/24 to 3/40Watchtowers WP → Watchtower WP 4/17* is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.