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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An 82 km round trip from Weiltingen - roughly 1 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch, Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch. The line favours views over speed.
Dinkelsbühl looks like a stage set, and the people who live there have worked hard to keep it that way. The old town, with its ring of walls, towers and gates, its half-timbered houses and the huge Gothic church of St George, survived the wars and the bombing that destroyed so many German towns, and it is one of the best preserved medieval towns on the Romantic Road. Each July the Kinderzeche, a festival that recalls the story of local children who saved the town during the Thirty Years' War, fills the streets with costumes and music.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch.
In the fields near Wassertrüdingen, in the soft valley of the Wörnitz and the hills of Middle Franconia, lie the buried remains of a Roman fort that once held an auxiliary unit of several hundred soldiers. Unterschwaningen was one of the larger posts on the Raetian section of the frontier, built in the second century to guard the line and the road behind it. Around it, as at every fort, a civilian settlement grew up, with houses, workshops, bathhouses and a cemetery, and the place must have been noisy and smoky, the roar of a small frontier town. Today the area is mostly farmland, and the outlines are visible only from the air, in dry summers, when crop marks trace the walls.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Here the frontier changes character. West of the Franconian lakes the Romans built the Raetian Limes not as a palisade but, in its final form, as a stone wall, a metre or so thick and perhaps three high, running across Middle Franconia toward the Danube. Medieval villagers who found its rubble in their fields had no idea who had built it and called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, which tells you how thoroughly the empire had been forgotten. The watchtowers numbered in this section sat along that wall in the farmland around Pfofeld and Gunzenhausen, close to where the line crosses the Altmühl valley.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 40 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 → Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch → Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Untersch → Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.