CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Hüttlingen it runs 316 km to Hüttlingen; allow about 5 h 39 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo, Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the, Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 and Fortlet Holderbusch. The line favours views over speed.
The Roman frontier wall known as the Limes ran for more than five hundred kilometres across what is now southern Germany, from the Rhine to the Danube, and near Aalen it passed through the Kocher valley and over the hills of the Ostalb. Along its length, watchtowers were built at regular intervals, numbered by archaeologists in sequence: WP 12/60 to 12/68 are a group of tower sites near Hüttlingen, mostly now visible as low mounds or reconstructed foundations. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes was inscribed by UNESCO in 2005 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
Lorch is where two Roman frontiers shook hands. The Upper Germanic Limes, a line of wooden palisade and watchtowers running down from the Rhine, met the Raetian Limes, a stone wall stretching east towards the Danube, in the hills near this small town in the Rems valley. The watchtower numbers jump here from series 9, the end of the Upper Germanic stretch, to 12, the start of the Raetian, and the whole system is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
Mainhardt sits on a ridge in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, and the Roman frontier ran right through it, on its way south in one of the longest straight lines ever drawn across European landscape. Here, the Upper Germanic Limes runs for some eighty kilometres from Walldürn to near Welzheim almost perfectly straight, ignoring hills and valleys, as if surveyors had laid a ruler on the map. The watchtowers numbered in this section stood along that line in the forest, and Mainhardt had a fort, whose site is marked in the village, with a small museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the write-up.
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about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, was born at Jagsthausen castle in about 1480, and he would probably be amused to know that he is best remembered today for a rude phrase. In Goethe's play about him, Götz tells an imperial messenger exactly what the emperor can do, a line that every German knows. The castle still stands in the village, now a hotel, and in summer the Burgfestspiele, an open-air theatre festival, stages the play in the castle courtyard. Long before Götz, the Romans were here too: a fort stood at Jagsthausen on the line of the Upper Germanic Limes, and in the hills around, a series of watchtowers, numbered by archaeologists as WP 9/2 to 9/13, kept watch along the frontier.
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Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13, about halfway. Next is Fortlet Holderbusch.
Holderbusch is a small piece of woodland above the Odenwald plateau, close to Buchen, where the Romans placed a fortlet on the Odenwald Limes about the middle of the second century. This part of the Upper Germanic frontier was, for much of its length, a simple palisade and ditch, running in an astonishingly straight line across hills and valleys from the Main to the Neckar. A fortlet was a small post, a few dozen soldiers behind a bank and ditch, and from here the watchtowers on each side could be reached on foot within minutes. The ground is marked by gentle swellings in the forest floor and a path with explanatory signs, and the walk takes less than half an hour.
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Fortlet Holderbusch sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 comes up about 197 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the write-up.
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about 237 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 write-up.
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The route ends here after 316 km.
Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 → Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → Fortlet Holderbusch is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortlet Holderbusch → back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.