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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180 km from Andernach to Andernach, about 3 h 02 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtower WP 1/65, Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a, Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se and back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a. 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 28 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 1/65.
Höhr-Grenzhausen is the capital of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' land, a corner of the Westerwald where the clay is so good that people have been making pots from it for five hundred years. The grey stoneware, fired at high temperature and decorated in cobalt blue, was exported across Europe in the form of jugs, tankards and bottles, and the workshops and kilns still fill the town. The German Ceramics Museum in Höhr-Grenzhausen is one of the best of its kind, with objects from medieval jugs to modern art.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/65 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtower WP 1/65 comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a.
Up on the plateau of the Hintertaunus, north of the Rhine gorge, the Roman frontier crossed a quiet landscape of fields and forest near Singhofen, and a section of it between two watchtowers survives here as a faint bank and ditch running through the woods. This is the Upper German Limes, which ran for more than five hundred kilometres from the Rhine to the Danube, marking the boundary between the Roman Empire and the free Germanic tribes from the second century until the Romans withdrew in the third. It was not a great wall like Hadrian's in Britain, but a line of watchtowers, forts and a timber palisade, later strengthened with a ditch and bank. Together with the Raetian Limes, it was listed by UNESCO in 2005.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se, about halfway. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/65.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/65 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 1/65 comes up about 151 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 → Watchtower WP 1/65 is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/65 → Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a → Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se → back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a → back through Watchtower WP 1/65 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/65 → Watchtowers WP 1/21 to 1/22 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.