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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From Weiltingen it runs 259 km to Weiltingen; allow about 4 h 14 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site of Burgsalach, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin and back through Fort site of Burgsalach. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
61 km on Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 → Fort site of Burgsalach.
Along the Wörnitz valley in western Middle Franconia, near the village of Weiltingen, the line of the Raetian Limes cuts across the countryside, and the places where Roman watchtowers once stood are numbered by archaeologists in a dry sequence: WP 13/6, 13/7, and so on. In Raetia, the frontier was not a palisade, as in Upper Germany, but a stone wall about three metres high, and local people called its remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing that only the devil could have built something so long and straight. Today, you may see a low bank in a field or a line of trees following the old route, and in some places the foundations of towers have been marked or reconstructed.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site of Burgsalach.
The small fortlet at Burgsalach stood on the Raetian Limes, the eastern section of Rome's frontier in Germany. Dating from a late phase of the frontier, it had walls of stone and was compact and well defended, more like a small castle than the usual timber watchtower, and its name lives on in the village of Burgsalach nearby. The outline of the walls can still be traced on the ground, and like the rest of the frontier it is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, in the hills of Middle Franconia, the Raetian Limes was not a palisade but a stone wall, which local legend later attributed to the Devil himself, calling it the Teufelsmauer.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
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Fort site of Burgsalach comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
Between Ingolstadt and Kelheim, the Danube flows through a broad, flat valley in Bavaria, with hop gardens, fields of maize and asparagus beds on its banks. Pförring is a small market town on the north bank, with Neustadt an der Donau and Vohburg on the other side. In Roman times, this was the frontier: the Raetian Limes ended at the Danube just downstream, and the Romans built a fort here, known as Celeusum, with a civil settlement outside its walls.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin. Next is back through Fort site of Burgsalach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Burgsalach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 → Fort site of Burgsalach is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Burgsalach → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → back through Fort site of Burgsalach is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Fort site of Burgsalach → Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.