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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A 115 km round trip from Höhr-Grenzhausen - roughly 2 h 50 in the saddle. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the, Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the and back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 27 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 Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the.
Here is where the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the longest stretch of Roman frontier in Europe, begins. The Romans started the line at the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and ran it up over the hills of the Westerwald, then on through the Taunus and beyond for more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube. The section with watchtowers numbered WP 1/11 to 1/20 follows the first climb away from the river through the forests above Rheinbrohl, Hammerstein and Niederbreitbach. Most of the towers survive only as low mounds of stone in the woods, but the course of the frontier ditch and rampart can often be traced on foot, and there are information boards and a few reconstructions along the way.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the. Next is back through 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 through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the, late in the day. 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.
Back at Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the → Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/11 to 1/20 including the → back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/41 to 1/50 including the → Watchtowers WP 1/69 to 1/72 including the is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.