CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Wassertrüdingen it runs 369 km to Wassertrüdingen; allow about 5 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, Water Management System of Augsburg and back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Arberg lies in the rolling country of Middle Franconia, where the Altmühl and Wörnitz rivers wander through meadows and the hills are crowned with small woods. The Roman Limes crossed this ground in the second century, and the towers numbered 13/40 belong to the Raetian section, close to the point where the frontier was a stone wall. Today the line is mostly hidden. Farmers have ploughed over it, and trees have grown on the old bank, and in a few places a wooden marker or a stone footing shows where a tower stood. The nearest big fort was at Unterschwaningen, a few kilometres away, and the garrison there sent patrols to the towers.
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Watchtowers WP 13/40 is where the day begins. 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.
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Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo comes up 82 km in. Next is Water Management System of Augsburg.
Augsburg was a Roman town, a medieval free imperial city and the home of the fabulously rich Fugger banking family, but the thing that held it all together was water. Over the centuries, the city built an intricate network of canals fed by the Lech and Wertach rivers, water towers, pumping stations and fountains, supplying clean drinking water to the citizens and power to mills and workshops. The system was so advanced that UNESCO inscribed it in 2019, recognising twenty-two sites, from the water towers at the Red Gate, dating back to the fifteenth century, to the great Renaissance fountains dedicated to Augustus, Mercury and Hercules on the main street.
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164 km in you reach Water Management System of Augsburg. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
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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.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/40.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/40 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 13/40. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 13/40 → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Water Management System of Augsburg is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Water Management System of Augsburg → back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtowers WP 13/40 is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.