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 310 km to Weiltingen; allow about 5 h 26 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B, Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh, Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard and Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the. 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 32 km this is Romantic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
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Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B.
Out here on the eastern edge of Württemberg, where the Jagst valley widens into rolling farmland below the Ellwangen hills, the Romans drew a line across the map and then built it in stone. The fort at Rainau-Buch, which the ride labels Reinau-B, sat just behind the Raetian Limes, the frontier that ran from the Rhine toward the Danube. What you find today is a grassy rectangle with low reconstructed wall footings, the outline of a bath house, and the traces of the civilian village that grew up outside the gate, where traders, families and off-duty soldiers lived the way garrison towns always do.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B comes up about 32 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh.
On the southern edge of Schwäbisch Gmünd, near the Schirenhof farm, the outline of a Roman fort and the foundations of its bath house lie in the grass, with walls and hypocaust heating systems laid out for visitors to see. The fort guarded the point where the Upper Germanic Limes met the Raetian Limes, the two great frontier lines of Roman Germany, and a civilian settlement grew up around it. The site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and it is one of the more rewarding Limes stops in Baden-Württemberg, with visible remains and a lovely setting above the town.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh write-up.
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about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard.
A Roman cohort fort once stood where Murrhardt's streets now run, on the Upper Germanic Limes as it cut south through the forest toward Welzheim, and a civilian settlement of traders, craftsmen and soldiers' families grew up around it. Some remains have been found under the town, and the local museum tells the story. The Romans left, but the site remained attractive, and in the early Middle Ages a monastery was founded here, associated with Saint Walterich, a hermit whose small chapel, the Walterichskapelle, is a jewel of late Romanesque architecture.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard, about halfway. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the.
For about eighty kilometres through northern Württemberg, the Roman frontier runs in a nearly perfectly straight line, ignoring hills, valleys and rivers as if someone had drawn it with a ruler on a map. Surveyors still argue about how the Romans managed it. The stretch with watchtowers 9/14 to 9/32, near Öhringen in the Hohenlohe region, lies along this remarkable line, and Öhringen itself grew from Roman forts, two of them, which guarded the frontier here. The line is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and the Limes trail follows it through fields and forests.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard comes up about 196 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh write-up.
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about 234 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B, 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.
The route ends here after 310 km.
Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 → Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B → Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh → Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard → Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Murrhard → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Reinau-B → Watchtowers WP 13/6 to 13/12 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.