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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243 km from Wassertrüdingen to Wassertrüdingen, about 4 h 17 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtower WP 14/28, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 14/28.
Near the Franconian town of Pleinfeld, the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the frontier of the province of Raetia, crossed a landscape of woods, fields and small rivers, and a watchtower stood here, one of hundreds along the line. Watchtower WP 14/28 is now a low mound or reconstructed foundation, but it is part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes World Heritage listing. The frontier here was a stone wall, known locally as the Teufelsmauer, the devil's wall, because medieval villagers could not believe that humans had built it.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 14/28 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 14/28 comes up about 36 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47.
Up in the hills above the Altmühl valley, west of Neustadt an der Donau and the Danube, the old Raetian frontier crossed some of its prettiest country. The numbers 15/27 to 15/47 cover a long stretch of the line, and because that line follows the ridges and plateau edges, the landscape is a mixture of fields, juniper-dotted limestone slopes and sheltered woods. The Altmühl itself is a slow river that has cut a deep, winding valley through Jurassic limestone, and the whole district is a nature park, known for fossils from the quarries at Solnhofen.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz sits at 154 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 14/28.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 14/28 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 14/28 comes up about 208 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 → Watchtower WP 14/28 is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 14/28 → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → back through Watchtower WP 14/28 is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 14/28 → Watchtowers WP 13/37 to 13/40 is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.