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 Heubach it runs 324 km to Heubach; allow about 5 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 9/100, Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35, Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur and Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Iggingen is a small village on the plateau above the Rems valley, a few kilometres east of Schwäbisch Gmünd, and like many villages in this part of Württemberg it has a Roman frontier running through its fields. The site labelled Watchtower WP 12/39 sits on the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the edge of Roman Raetia, and from here the line runs eastwards towards Aalen, the largest Roman cavalry fort north of the Alps, now home to an excellent Limes museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/39 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 12/39 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/100.
The Limes in the Swabian-Franconian Forest has a quality that surprises people who expect Roman walls to follow hills: it runs in a dead-straight line, for kilometres at a stretch, regardless of what stands in the way. Near Murrhardt the line dives through woodland and valleys, and the signposted watchtower sites mark points where a timber and later stone tower stood on the frontier, with a ditch and a palisade or bank beside it. The numbering, with its slash, comes from the nineteenth-century surveyors who first mapped the frontier, and archaeologists still use it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/100 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 9/100 comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35.
Öhringen had not one but two Roman forts, known today as the Bürgkastell and the Rendelkastell, both on the Upper Germanic Limes, which ran past the town on its way south. The watchtowers numbered here were part of that frontier, and the town grew partly on the remains of the Roman settlement that clustered around the forts. Little is visible above ground, but finds are displayed in the local museum, and the line of the Limes can be followed on foot or by bike through the surrounding countryside.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur.
Osterburken is a small town in the Bauland of northern Baden-Württemberg, and the Romans left it one of the most interesting fort sites on the Upper German Limes. The fort here was built in the second century AD, when the frontier was moved forward, and it had an unusual annex fort added later, with walls that ran down the slope toward the stream, making it one of the few double fort complexes on the Limes. Large sections of the walls have been excavated and conserved, and the Roman museum next to the site displays finds from the fort and the civil settlement. The Upper German-Raetian Limes became a UNESCO site in 2005.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl.
At Miltenberg, the Roman frontier did something unusual: it stopped being a wall and became a river. North of the town, the Main served as the frontier for some fifty kilometres, guarded by forts and watchtowers along its western bank, and here, where the river bends, the land frontier began again, heading south through the Odenwald. The watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 belong to this stretch, and while most are only traces in fields and forests, they are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Romans built forts at Miltenberg, too, and some of their finds are displayed in the town museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl sits at 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur comes up about 207 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 249 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/100.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/100 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/100, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/39.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/39 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 324 km.
Watchtowers WP 12/39 → Watchtowers WP 9/100 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/100 → Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 → Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur → Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur → back through Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 → back through Watchtowers WP 9/100 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/100 → Watchtowers WP 12/39 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.