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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Wassertrüdingen it runs 80 km to Wassertrüdingen; allow about 1 h 44 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15, Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for and back through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15. 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 20 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
In this corner of Franconia, the Roman frontier is a straight line. From the Danube near Eining the Raetian Limes ran north and then swung west across a quiet landscape of low hills and fields, and in the section near Wassertrudingen, the line is as ruler-straight as anything the Romans ever built. Here the frontier was a stone wall, unlike the timber palisade further north, and it ran between towers numbered by archaeologists. The group 13/37 to 13/40 is a short stretch of that wall and its watchtowers.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15.
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 comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for.
Near Rainau, not far from here, the Romans built a monumental gate in the Raetian Limes, a showpiece entrance probably connected with a visit by the emperor Caracalla in the early third century. Today the Limestor Dalkingen is protected under a glass and steel shelter, an impressive sight. The watchtowers numbered in this section, around Stödtlen, Wört and Tannhausen, were part of the same frontier, which ran here as a stone wall across the hilly country between the Ries crater and the Swabian Forest, toward the Danube.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for. Next is back through 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 through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 → Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 → Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/86 to 13/5 including for → back through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 13/13 to 13/15 → Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.