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 207 km round trip from Bad Hönningen - roughly 4 h 09 in the saddle. It goes by way of Watchtower WP 1/60, Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort, Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 and back through Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 37 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is where the day begins. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtower WP 1/60 comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort.
Between the Lahn and the Rhine, the Roman frontier crossed a high, wooded plateau known locally as the Einrich, and the watchtowers from 2/7 to 2/13 stood on this stretch, near the village of Dachsenhausen. In the forest, the earth bank and ditch can still be followed, and small forts, built to house the soldiers who manned the towers, have left their outlines in the ground. Here, as elsewhere in Germany, the Limes belongs to the frontiers of the Roman Empire on the World Heritage list, but the forest is quiet, and you may walk the line for an hour without meeting anyone.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59.
The Upper German-Raetian Limes began its long march across Germany on the banks of the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, and climbed from there into the hills of the Westerwald. The stretch between Watchtowers 1/58 and 1/59, near Höhr-Grenzhausen, is part of this first section, where the frontier ran through forests and over hills above the Rhine valley. Remains are scarce here, perhaps a mound or a line in the forest floor, but the Limes path follows the route, and information boards explain the history.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/60.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/60 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 1/60 comes up about 172 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → Watchtower WP 1/60 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/60 → Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort → Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 → back through Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/7 and 2/13 including fort → back through Watchtower WP 1/60 is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/60 → Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.