CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Andernach it runs 273 km to Andernach; allow about 4 h 15 of riding. The stops in between: Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen, Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 and back through Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen.
For 63 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
61 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
The Upper German-Raetian Limes began at the Rhine, at Rheinbrohl, and climbed into the hills on the east bank, and towers WP 1/23 and 1/24, near the wine village of Leutesdorf, are among the first along its route. They are now marked by foundations or mounds in the forest above the river, and they are part of the World Heritage listing. From here the frontier ran for more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube, and it is fascinating to stand at the very beginning of such an enormous undertaking.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 is where the day begins. Next is Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen.
Up on the high, rolling plateau between the Rhine and the Lahn, where the Taunus fades into fields and beech woods, the Romans built one of the better preserved stone forts on the Upper German Limes. Holzhausen an der Haide is a quiet village of a little over a thousand people, and the fort sits just outside it in the trees, the outline of its walls still traceable on the ground, with the gates and corner towers marked out where the stone survives. It is part of the UNESCO-listed frontier that once ran from the Rhine near Koblenz all the way to the Danube, a line of palisade, ditch, watchtowers and garrisons meant less to stop armies than to control who came and went, and what they paid for the privilege.
Read the complete Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen write-up.
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Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen comes up 62 km in. Next is Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456.
The Saalburg is the Roman fort that Germany rebuilt. On the crest of the Taunus north of Bad Homburg, where the Limes crossed a pass, archaeologists excavated the remains of a fort in the nineteenth century, and between 1897 and 1907, with the enthusiastic support of Kaiser Wilhelm II, it was reconstructed with walls, gates, barracks and a headquarters building. Today it is a museum and archaeological park, and the civil settlement, or vicus, that grew up outside the fort lies east of the B 456 road. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 write-up.
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124 km in you reach Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456. Next is back through Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 → Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen → Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 → back through Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen → Watchtowers WP 1/23 to 1/24 is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.