CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 158 km round trip from Burgsalach - roughly 2 h 32 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10, Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching and Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
Burgsalach is a quiet village of about twelve hundred people on the high limestone plateau of the Franconian Jura, and the old frontier of the Roman Empire ran right across it. This was the Raetian Limes, a different beast from the timber palisade further north. Here the Romans built in stone, and the remains of the wall, which locals long ascribed to the devil and called the Teufelsmauer, still show up as a low line in the fields and woods. The towers along it were numbered by archaeologists, which is why the label is a string of figures rather than a name.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo 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.
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.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
The Raetian Limes, the eastern stretch of Rome's frontier in Germany, was built differently from its western counterpart. Instead of a wooden palisade, the Romans eventually raised a stone wall here, running for over a hundred and sixty kilometres across what is now Bavaria, towards the Danube. Locals later called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, convinced that only a demon could have built something so long. Watchtowers stood along it every few hundred metres, and the group between WP 15/8 and 15/10, in the hills between Greding and Dietfurt, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. In places, low remains of the wall and towers can be traced in the forest and fields.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10. 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.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, about halfway. 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.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin sits at 76 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up about 95 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 115 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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 14/29 to 14/62 including fo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 158 km.
Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.