CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Gunzenhausen it runs 308 km to Gunzenhausen; allow about 5 h 02 of riding. On the way it passes Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a, Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68, Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo and Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung. The line favours views over speed.
The numbers here, 13/46 to 13/49, belong to a surveyor's grid, but the line they follow is the old Raetian frontier, which the Romans built across Bavaria in the second century. East of the town of Gunzenhausen it was turned from a simple timber palisade into a proper stone wall, a rarity in the Roman north. The locals later called this wall the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, because they could not imagine human hands had built something so straight and so long. Folk stories said that the devil had built it overnight, and that he had run out of time just before dawn.
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Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49 is where the day begins. Next is Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a.
In the fields near Wilburgstetten, in the west of Franconia, a low ridge runs across the landscape, overgrown with grass and bushes. It looks like nothing much, but it is the remains of the Raetian Limes, the stone wall that marked the frontier of the Roman province of Raetia in the second and third centuries. Unlike the Upper German Limes to the north west, which was mostly a palisade and ditch, the Raetian section was eventually built as a continuous stone wall, more than a hundred and sixty kilometres long. Local people later called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing it could only have been built by supernatural forces. The section between watchtowers here is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a write-up.
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Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68.
The Roman frontier wall known as the Limes ran for more than five hundred kilometres across what is now southern Germany, from the Rhine to the Danube, and near Aalen it passed through the Kocher valley and over the hills of the Ostalb. Along its length, watchtowers were built at regular intervals, numbered by archaeologists in sequence: WP 12/60 to 12/68 are a group of tower sites near Hüttlingen, mostly now visible as low mounds or reconstructed foundations. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes was inscribed by UNESCO in 2005 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 write-up.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
Lorch is where two Roman frontiers shook hands. The Upper Germanic Limes, a line of wooden palisade and watchtowers running down from the Rhine, met the Raetian Limes, a stone wall stretching east towards the Danube, in the hills near this small town in the Rems valley. The watchtower numbers jump here from series 9, the end of the Upper Germanic stretch, to 12, the start of the Raetian, and the whole system is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
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Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo, about halfway. Next is Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung.
In 1927, on a hillside overlooking Stuttgart, a group of the most radical architects in Europe built an entire housing estate in a few months as an exhibition of what modern living could look like. The Weissenhof Estate, organised by the Deutscher Werkbund under the direction of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, brought together Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P. Oud and others, and their flat-roofed, white-walled houses became a manifesto for the International Style.
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Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung sits at 163 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo.
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back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo comes up about 202 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 write-up.
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about 240 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68. Next is back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a.
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back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49 write-up.
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The route ends here after 308 km.
Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49 → Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a → Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 → Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung → back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/132 to 12/38 including fo → back through Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 12/60 to 12/68 → back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between Watchtowers WP 13/5 a → Watchtowers WP 13/46 to 13/49 is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.