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 157 km round trip from Bendorf - roughly 3 h 06 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems, Upper Middle Rhine Valley, Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen and back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley. 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 26 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Upper Germanic Limes begins a few kilometres from here, at Rheinbrohl on the Rhine, and in its first miles it climbs straight up into the Westerwald. Watchtowers numbered WP 1/41 to 1/50 mark a short run of that frontier in the wooded hills behind Neuwied and Bendorf, near the villages of Stromberg, Anhausen and Heimbach-Weis. Do not expect towers. What remains is a low bank, a ditch you can trace through the beech trunks, and here and there the outline of a tower base marked by archaeologists.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems.
Rome built in stone here, and then the town grew on top of it. Bad Ems stands where the Lahn winds through a tight gorge, and the fort and the civil settlement beside it formed a small frontier community, with soldiers, traders and families living in the shadow of the Limes. The Roman fort is now buried beneath the modern town, so the site is more an idea than a sight, but the Limes trail in the woods above makes the story easy to follow, and the town museum helps with the details.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Upper Middle Rhine Valley.
Between Bingen and Koblenz, the Rhine cuts a deep, winding gorge through the slate hills of the Rhenish Massif, and for centuries this has been one of the great landscapes of Europe: steep slopes covered with vineyards, castles on every crag, villages of half-timbered houses along the river, and barges gliding past. The Upper Middle Rhine Valley was listed by UNESCO in 2002, and Sankt Goarshausen sits at its heart, at the foot of the most famous rock on the river.
Read the complete Upper Middle Rhine Valley write-up.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Upper Middle Rhine Valley. 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, about halfway. Next is back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Upper Middle Rhine Valley write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems comes up about 128 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems → Upper Middle Rhine Valley is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Upper Middle Rhine Valley → Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortsite of Holzhausen and civil settlemen → back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Upper Middle Rhine Valley → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Bad Ems → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.