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 174 km round trip from Arzbach - roughly 3 h 20 in the saddle. It goes by way of Fortlet of Pfarrhofen, Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci, Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 and back through Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci. The line favours views over speed.
The Limes was a long wall, in effect, that stretched for about 550 kilometres across Germany, from the Rhine near Koblenz to the Danube near Regensburg. It was built in stages from the first century AD, starting as a line of wooden watchtowers and a cleared strip through the forest, and then gaining a ditch, a palisade and, in places, a wall. The watchtowers were numbered by the German scholars who surveyed the line in the late nineteenth century, hence the codes such as WP 1/83, which mean watchpost number 83 in section 1. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes was listed by UNESCO in 2005.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/83 to 1/86 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 1/83 to 1/86 is where the day begins. Next is Fortlet of Pfarrhofen.
In the second century, the Roman frontier in Germany ran across the hills of the Taunus north of the Rhine as a line of wooden palisades, ditches, earth banks, watchtowers and forts, stretching over five hundred kilometres from the Rhine to the Danube. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, as it is called, is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, listed by UNESCO in 2005, and the fortlet of Pfarrhofen, near Holzhausen an der Haide in the western Taunus, is one of the many small installations along its course. A fortlet was a small fort with a garrison of a few dozen men, guarding a road crossing or a section of the frontier between larger forts.
Read the complete Fortlet of Pfarrhofen write-up.
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Fortlet of Pfarrhofen comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci.
The Taunus is the green upland that keeps Frankfurt's weekend riders sane, and running right across it is the line of the Roman frontier. The stretch of watchtowers numbered 3/1 to 3/14 lies near Taunusstein, north of Wiesbaden, where the Upper Germanic Limes crossed the ridge, and it includes the remains of forts and their civilian settlements. One of the best known nearby is the fort of Zugmantel, near the hamlet of Orlen, where the outline of the fort, the palisade line and reconstructed watchtowers give a real sense of the frontier. The whole line is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44.
The Taunus is the low, forested mountain range that closes in the north of the Frankfurt basin, and the Romans put their frontier along and over it. Here, near Glashütten, the line passes through high woodland at roughly four hundred metres above sea level, in an area that is cold and often foggy in winter. Towers 3/41 to 3/44 belong to the third section of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the one that UNESCO recognised in 2005 together with the rest of the frontier. The Romans cleared a swathe through the forest, set up a palisade, and watched the open ground to the north, where tribes of the Chatti lived. The name Glashütten itself recalls glassmaking, once common in these forests because wood, sand and potash were all to hand.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci write-up.
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back through Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fortlet of Pfarrhofen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortlet of Pfarrhofen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fortlet of Pfarrhofen comes up about 147 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/83 to 1/86.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/83 to 1/86 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/83 to 1/86 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 1/83 to 1/86 → Fortlet of Pfarrhofen is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet of Pfarrhofen → Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci → Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 → back through Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 3/1 to 3/14 including the ci → back through Fortlet of Pfarrhofen is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortlet of Pfarrhofen → Watchtowers WP 1/83 to 1/86 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.