Why this ride
From Neuwied it runs 290 km to Neuwied; allow about 4 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3, Monheim-Haus Bürgel and back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a and Monheim-Haus Bürgel
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 290 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 24
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a
Pumice is the clue to this corner of the Rhineland. About thirteen thousand years ago the Laacher See volcano blew itself apart not far upstream, and the ash and pumice it threw out settled across the Neuwied basin, where it was dug, pressed into building blocks and carted off for centuries. Up on the hills above the basin, near Melsbach and Rengsdorf, the Romans chose the high ground for a pair of small watchtowers, one of which carries an extra letter in its number because archaeologists found a second structure next to it. They were part of the Upper Germanic Limes, which begins at the Rhine only a few kilometres away.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3.
2. Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3
The Domhecken, the cathedral hedges, takes its name from the way the old hedgerows and tall trees here once met overhead like the roof of a church. The area in the northern Kottenforst, a short distance from the town of Alfter, is part of the great forest south-west of Bonn, and it carries the traces of old land use: hedge banks, ditches, boundary stones and long, straight forest roads laid out for hunting parties.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 comes up about 80 km into the recorded legs. Next is Monheim-Haus Bürgel.
3. Monheim-Haus Bürgel
Haus Bürgel is a manor farm that sits on top of a Roman fort, quite literally. The walls of a late Roman fortification, built in the fourth century to guard the Rhine frontier, form part of the foundations and outer walls of the medieval and later farm buildings, and the site is part of the Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021. Between Monheim and Düsseldorf-Urdenbach, it lies in a broad meadow landscape on the right bank of the Rhine.
Read the complete Monheim-Haus Bürgel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 146 km into the recorded legs you reach Monheim-Haus Bürgel. Next is back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3.
4. back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a.
5. Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a to Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3
Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a → Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 to Monheim-Haus Bürgel
Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 → Monheim-Haus Bürgel is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monheim-Haus Bürgel to back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3
Monheim-Haus Bürgel → back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 to Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a
back through Kottenforst Nord | Domhecken 3 → Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.