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 Pfofeld it runs 157 km to Pfofeld; allow about 3 h 02 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site of Oberhochstatt, Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz, Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
Here the frontier changes character. West of the Franconian lakes the Romans built the Raetian Limes not as a palisade but, in its final form, as a stone wall, a metre or so thick and perhaps three high, running across Middle Franconia toward the Danube. Medieval villagers who found its rubble in their fields had no idea who had built it and called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, which tells you how thoroughly the empire had been forgotten. The watchtowers numbered in this section sat along that wall in the farmland around Pfofeld and Gunzenhausen, close to where the line crosses the Altmühl valley.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is where the day begins. Next is Fort site of Oberhochstatt.
Not every Roman fort on the frontier was a great stone fortress. Some were small, temporary or quickly abandoned, and the fort site of Oberhochstatt, on the high plateau above Weißenburg in Bavaria, seems to have been one of these, a modest garrison post on the Raetian Limes. There is little to see today beyond a field, perhaps an information board and the outline of the defences in the grass. But the landscape around is full of Roman history, and the town of Weißenburg, a short ride away, is one of the best places in Germany to experience it.
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Fort site of Oberhochstatt comes up about 22 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.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz sits at 108 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site of Oberhochstatt.
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Read the complete Fort site of Oberhochstatt write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site of Oberhochstatt comes up about 134 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the → Fort site of Oberhochstatt is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Oberhochstatt → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfünz is 25 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 Fort site of Oberhochstatt is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Oberhochstatt → Watchtowers WP 14/1 to 14/27 including the is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.