CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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167 km from Wassertrüdingen to Wassertrüdingen, about 3 h 17 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the, Fort site of Oberhochstatt, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz and back through Fort site of Oberhochstatt.
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 is where the day begins. 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.
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Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site of Oberhochstatt.
Not every Roman fort on the frontier was a great stone fortress. Some were small, temporary or quickly abandoned, and the fort site of Oberhochstatt, on the high plateau above Weißenburg in Bavaria, seems to have been one of these, a modest garrison post on the Raetian Limes. There is little to see today beyond a field, perhaps an information board and the outline of the defences in the grass. But the landscape around is full of Roman history, and the town of Weißenburg, a short ride away, is one of the best places in Germany to experience it.
Read the complete Fort site of Oberhochstatt write-up.
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about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site of Oberhochstatt. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Above the village of Pfünz, on a spur of white Jura limestone looking down into the Altmühl valley, the Romans built a fort they called Vetoniana. Today a reconstructed gate and a stretch of wall stand on the hilltop, and from up there you understand the choice at once: the valley floor curls below you, the river meanders slowly, and anyone moving along it would have been seen hours before they arrived.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site of Oberhochstatt.
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Read the complete Fort site of Oberhochstatt write-up.
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back through Fort site of Oberhochstatt sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the comes up about 141 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo → Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Fort site of Oberhochstatt is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Oberhochstatt → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → back through Fort site of Oberhochstatt is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Oberhochstatt → back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Watchtowers WP 13/16 to 13/36 including fo is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.