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 Höhr-Grenzhausen it runs 321 km to Höhr-Grenzhausen; allow about 4 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1, Dormagen and back through Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Upper German-Raetian Limes began its long march across Germany on the banks of the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, and climbed from there into the hills of the Westerwald. The stretch between Watchtowers 1/58 and 1/59, near Höhr-Grenzhausen, is part of this first section, where the frontier ran through forests and over hills above the Rhine valley. Remains are scarce here, perhaps a mound or a line in the forest floor, but the Limes path follows the route, and information boards explain the history.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 is where the day begins. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1.
The southern end of the Kottenforst lies where the plateau west of Bonn begins to tilt toward the Eifel, and the ground, which is flat and wooded to the north, starts to roll in low hills around Wachtberg and Meckenheim. Anyone who has walked the Kottenforst on a Sunday knows the Professorenweg, a long forest track whose name is thought to come from the university professors of Bonn who took their daily constitutional along it, thinking aloud with a colleague.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1 write-up.
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Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1 comes up about 78 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dormagen.
Dormagen is not the sort of place that ends up on postcards, and it does not try to be. It is a working town of some sixty thousand on the left bank of the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf, dominated on its northern side by a huge chemical park whose pipes and stacks glow at night. Yet the name itself comes from Roman times: Durnomagus was a fort on the Lower German Limes, the Rhine frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and a cavalry unit was stationed here to patrol the river and the road along it.
Read the complete Dormagen write-up.
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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Dormagen. Next is back through Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 → Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1 is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1 → Dormagen is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dormagen → back through Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1 is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Professorenweg 1 → Watchtowers WP 1/58 to 1/59 is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.