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 294 km round trip from Andernach - roughly 5 h in the saddle. The stops in between: Limessection north of Arzbach, Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se, Watchtower WP 3/38* and Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 31 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Above Leutesdorf, on the right bank of the Rhine between Neuwied and Bad Hönningen, the hills climb steeply from the river, covered with vineyards and forests, and the Roman frontier ran along their crest. Watchtowers WP 1/21 and 1/22 stood here in the early part of the Upper Germanic Limes, just a few kilometres from its starting point at Rheinbrohl, watching over the valley and the lands beyond. Today the tower sites are quiet spots in the woods, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 is where the day begins. Next is Limessection north of Arzbach.
North of Arzbach the land lifts out of the Lahn valley and into the Westerwald, and the Roman frontier did the same. The Limes here is a section rather than a single tower, a line where a ditch, bank and a string of watchtowers once ran across the ridge. It is a faint thing now, a low earthwork under trees, but you can follow it on foot if you know where to look, and the local Limes trail marks the way. The nearest villages, Arzbach and Kadenbach, are small and quiet, with only a couple of thousand people between them.
Read the complete Limessection north of Arzbach write-up.
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Limessection north of Arzbach comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se.
The western Taunus is wonderfully empty. Away from the commuter belt around Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, the hills north of Bad Schwalbach turn into a quiet patchwork of forest, small meadows and villages in the Heidenrod municipality, and right through the middle runs the Limes. Today you find grassy outlines, a few markers and the bank and ditch disappearing into the beech woods.
Read the complete Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se. Next is Watchtower WP 3/38*.
The Taunus is a range of wooded hills north-west of Frankfurt, rising to 878 metres at the Großer Feldberg, and it has long been the city's playground, with forests, spa towns and winding roads. Through these hills ran the Upper Germanic Limes, the Roman frontier that stretched for over five hundred kilometres across Germany, and one of its watchtowers, numbered WP 3/38, stood near the village of Glashütten, close to Waldems and Königstein im Taunus.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/38* write-up.
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Watchtower WP 3/38*, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha.
Elvis Presley spent his military service in Friedberg, a few kilometres from here, from 1958 to 1960, and lived in a rented house in the spa town of Bad Nauheim, where fans still leave messages on the wall outside and a square in the town bears his name. But nearly two thousand years earlier, other soldiers served in this region. The Roman frontier of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, a World Heritage site, ran along the edge of the Taunus hills here, and at Langenhain, near Ober-Mörlen, the Romans built a fort with a civil settlement beside it, where traders, craftsmen and the families of soldiers lived. Today, the site is mostly fields and meadows, with information boards to help you imagine the walls, gates and buildings that once stood here.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 3/38*.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/38* write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 3/38* comes up about 178 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 222 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se. Next is back through Limessection north of Arzbach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection north of Arzbach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Limessection north of Arzbach, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 294 km.
Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 → Limessection north of Arzbach is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection north of Arzbach → Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se → Watchtower WP 3/38* is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 3/38* → Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha → back through Watchtower WP 3/38* is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 3/38* → back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se → back through Limessection north of Arzbach is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection north of Arzbach → Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.