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 191 km to Höhr-Grenzhausen; allow about 3 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a, 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 27 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Between Hillscheid, Neuhäusel and Kadenbach the land lifts into a low, rolling plateau of fields, beech copses and small clay pits, and the watchtowers 1/74 to 1/76 mark a tight cluster of Roman posts on the frontier. On paper it looks like a long list, but on the ground it is a gentle, almost domestic country where cows graze behind electric fences and church towers rise over village roofs. The frontier here was part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2005, and a map of the area shows a sequence of numbered towers a few hundred metres apart, each one in sight of the next.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/74 to 1/76 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/74 to 1/76 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a.
Pumice is the clue to this corner of the Rhineland. About thirteen thousand years ago the Laacher See volcano blew itself apart not far upstream, and the ash and pumice it threw out settled across the Neuwied basin, where it was dug, pressed into building blocks and carted off for centuries. Up on the hills above the basin, near Melsbach and Rengsdorf, the Romans chose the high ground for a pair of small watchtowers, one of which carries an extra letter in its number because archaeologists found a second structure next to it. They were part of the Upper Germanic Limes, which begins at the Rhine only a few kilometres away.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a comes up about 27 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.
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back through Remagen sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a comes up about 164 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/74 to 1/76.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/74 to 1/76 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/74 to 1/76 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 1/74 to 1/76 → Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a → Remagen is 37 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 Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/35 and 1/35a → Watchtowers WP 1/74 to 1/76 is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.