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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From Bendorf it runs 255 km to Bendorf; allow about 4 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se, Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort and back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 63 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 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.
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Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort.
Kaiser Wilhelm II took a personal interest in the Roman frontier, and at the beginning of the twentieth century, he ordered the complete reconstruction of the Saalburg, a Roman fort on the crest of the Taunus near Bad Homburg. The result, with its walls, gates and buildings rebuilt on the original foundations, is the most complete reconstruction of a Roman fort in Germany and houses a museum of Roman life on the frontier. A few kilometres north-east, near Rosbach vor der Höhe, the ruins of the Kapersburg fort lie in the forest, and the watchtowers numbered WP 4/1 to 4/19a, on the section of the Limes running from the Taunus ridge toward the Wetterau, are part of the UNESCO listing of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort. Next is back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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.
back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se, 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 → Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se → Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort → back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlets and site of the fort and civil se → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.