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 193 km to Höhr-Grenzhausen; allow about 3 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi, Remagen, Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar and back through Remagen. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 28 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Roman soldiers on this part of the frontier spent most of their time watching, and the towers that you can trace in the woods near Hillscheid are the evidence. Four tower positions follow one another here, each within sight of the next so that a fire or a flag could pass a message along the line in minutes, and a fortlet and the remains of a fort and civil settlement lie nearby, forming a small military zone around the Limes. This was the first stretch of the Upper Germanic frontier after it left the Rhine, so every day brought traders, patrols and tax collectors through the gap.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi.
Niederbieber was one of the biggest Roman forts in the German frontier country, and it sits on the edge of the modern town of Neuwied, on the river Wied, a few kilometres from where it flows into the Rhine. The fort was built in the second century as a base for a cavalry unit and later a larger garrison, and a large civilian town, the vicus, grew up around it. In the early third century it was rebuilt and expanded, and it had stone walls, towers and a commander's residence, with a large bathhouse and shops outside.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Remagen.
On 7 March 1945, soldiers of the US 9th Armored Division reached Remagen and found the Ludendorff railway bridge across the Rhine still standing, despite German attempts to blow it. They rushed across, and for the first time the Allies had a foothold on the far bank of the great river. Ten days later the damaged bridge collapsed, but by then pontoons had been built and the war in the west had entered its last chapter. What remains today are the black stone towers on both banks, and those on the Remagen side house a small peace museum telling the story with honesty and without glorification.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Remagen. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar.
The southern Kottenforst is the Bonn locals' own backyard, and on a fine Sunday it feels like it. Tracks and rides cross the woodland in all directions, and the people on them are walkers, joggers, riders and families on bicycles rather than motorbikes. The name on the label, with its mention of a pond-like hollow called Maar, hints at the wet, clay-lined depressions that dot this plateau and hold water after rain. Underneath lie old Roman remains too, including part of the Eifel aqueduct that carried water toward Cologne, though you will see it only if you know where to look.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar write-up.
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Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar, about halfway. Next is back through Remagen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Remagen sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi comes up about 163 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi → Remagen is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar → back through Remagen is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Remagen → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Niederbi → Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.