Why this ride
80 km from Burgsalach to Burgsalach, about 1 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 and back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo and Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 80 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 16
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
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.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
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.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
4. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
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.
5. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo to Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
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 to Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
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 to back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
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 to Watchtowers WP 14/29 to 14/62 including fo
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.