Why this ride
From Höhr-Grenzhausen it runs 318 km to Höhr-Grenzhausen; allow about 3 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the, Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 and back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 and Fortlet Dicker Wald 1
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 318 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 36
- 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 1/67 to 1/66
The Westerwald is a low, rain-washed plateau of beech, meadow and clay pits, and the Roman Limes cut straight across it. This stretch, marked by the surveyors' numbers for two watchtowers, lies close to Höhr-Grenzhausen, where the Limes was a palisade and ditch with timber towers every few hundred metres, replaced later by stone. You will not find tall walls. What you find is a gentle bank in the woods, a mound where a tower stood, and a signpost telling you that soldiers once watched the horizon from this exact spot.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the.
2. Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the
In the hills of the Taunus north of Wiesbaden, the Roman frontier ran along the ridges through dense forest, and between watchtowers 3/15 and 3/19 near Idstein, its line can still be traced on the ground. The Romans built an earth bank and ditch, topped with a wooden palisade, with stone watchtowers at regular intervals, close enough to see each other and signal along the line. In the forest, the bank and ditch survive as a long, low ridge and hollow, and the foundations of watchtowers appear as low mounds, sometimes with a few stones visible. The Upper Germanic and Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, has been a World Heritage site since 2005.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortlet Dicker Wald 1.
3. Fortlet Dicker Wald 1
The Dicker Wald, the thick forest, is a good name for a place where a Roman fortlet once stood among trees. The fortlet was a small post on the Wetterau Limes, the frontier line that curves around the plain north of Frankfurt, and it sat just inside woodland that still covers much of the hill. What you find today are low earthworks and the outline of a small enclosure, but the surrounding forest gives a good sense of the lonely, damp setting soldiers would have known. The Limes was a frontier of watchtowers, small forts and larger garrisons, all linked by a path and a palisade.
Read the complete Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortlet Dicker Wald 1. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the.
4. back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66.
5. Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 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 1/67 to 1/66. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 to Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the
Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 → Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the to Fortlet Dicker Wald 1
Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the → Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 to back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the
Fortlet Dicker Wald 1 → back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the to Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66
back through Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the → Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.