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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291 km from Hüttlingen to Hüttlingen, about 5 h 10 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo, Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo and back through Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo. 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 75 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo.
The Raetian Limes ran across southern Franconia as a stone wall, and between Wassertrüdingen and Gunzenhausen it climbed over low hills and crossed the valleys of small rivers, with watchtowers at regular intervals. The group from WP 13/16 to 13/36 includes the sites of several towers and a fortlet, now visible as low mounds and foundations, sometimes with reconstructions, and they are part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. In the woods and fields, a line of stones or a slight bank may mark the course of the wall.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 145 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 → Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → back through Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo → Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.