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 93 km round trip from Bendorf - roughly 1 h 57 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe, Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe. 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 17 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.
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Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe.
On the heights above the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Koblenz, the suburb of Niederberg sits on top of a Roman fort. It is one of the forts of the Upper Germanic Limes, which ran through the hills here a few kilometres back from the river, and the label refers to the fort site and the civilian settlement that grew up around it, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Not much is visible today, as the area is built over, but the location explains a great deal.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe comes up about 17 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 45 km into the recorded legs you reach Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe, late in the day. 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.
Back at Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe → Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 2/13 a → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbe → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.