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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89 km from Höhr-Grenzhausen to Höhr-Grenzhausen, about 1 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4, Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f and back through Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 21 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
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Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4.
Bad Ems sits in a narrow bend of the Lahn river, and the hills above it are steep, wooded and cut by short valleys. The watchtowers listed here, from WP 2/2 to 2/4, belong to the second section of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the Roman frontier that UNESCO added to its list in 2005. In this stretch the line climbed away from the Rhine and cut over the high ground of the Taunus and Westerwald fringes, and the Romans placed their towers where the view was best. What you see now are mostly foundations and low mounds, with a few reconstructed pieces nearby, so bring imagination and leave the high expectations at home.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4 comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
North of the Taunus ridge, the Limes crossed a high, open plateau between the Rhine and the Lahn, and the stretch with watchtowers 2/23 to 2/26 runs through the farmland and woods near Miehlen and Singhofen in the Rhein-Lahn district. The remains here are subtle, mostly low banks and the traces of towers in fields and forest edges, but the line of the frontier is marked by the long-distance Limes trail and information boards. This is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, a stretch of the line that few visitors ever see.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
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about 43 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4, late in the day. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 → Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4 → Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → back through Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4 is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 2/2 to 2/4 → Watchtowers WP 1/67 to 1/66 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.