CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 169 km round trip from Bad Hönningen - roughly 3 h 44 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the, Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe, Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo and Watchtower WP 1/60.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 16 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 is where the day begins. 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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Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the comes up 17 km in. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe.
On the heights above the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Koblenz, the suburb of Niederberg sits on top of a Roman fort. It is one of the forts of the Upper Germanic Limes, which ran through the hills here a few kilometres back from the river, and the label refers to the fort site and the civilian settlement that grew up around it, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Not much is visible today, as the area is built over, but the location explains a great deal.
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34 km in you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo.
The Roman frontier in Germany, the Limes, begins at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl, and a few kilometres upstream the town of Neuwied sits on the river, its district of Heddesdorf lying on the site of a Roman auxiliary fort. The fort was one of a chain of garrison posts in the Neuwied basin, a wide, fertile bowl of the Rhine valley with a mild climate, and the soldiers who lived here controlled the river crossing and the road toward the frontier. A civil settlement, a vicus, grew beside the fort, with traders, craftsmen and families. Nothing stands today above ground, because the fort lies under houses and streets, and what survives is documented in the finds in the local museum, in markers and in the street plan.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo, about halfway. Next is Watchtower WP 1/60.
Above Koblenz, on the edge of the Westerwald, the potters of Höhr-Grenzhausen have been making grey, salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt-blue decoration for centuries, giving this corner of Germany its nickname, the Kannenbäckerland, the land of jug bakers. In the forest nearby, the site of Roman watchtower WP 1/60 on the Upper German-Raetian Limes is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site. The tower was one of hundreds along the frontier, a wooden or stone structure from which soldiers watched the land beyond and signalled to their neighbours.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/60 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/60 sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo comes up 85 km in. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe.
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102 km in you reach back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe. 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, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
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The route ends here after 169 km.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe → Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo → Watchtower WP 1/60 is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/60 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Heddesdo → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe → back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 16 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 → Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.